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StartupSnifferTransform gut-‐driven to data-‐driven investment

Wei ZhangInsight Data Science Fellow

2013

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My journey from Indiana to California

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FantasDc Startup Community

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Problem: which startup to invest?

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Gut-‐driven Venture Capital Investment

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www.startupsniffer.com�

Make quanDtaDve investment possible

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PredicDng Startup Outcome (IPO/AcquisiDon)

• Data: crunchbase.com

• Feature Engineering: Curated 13 features for each company about company profile, founder profile and VC profile• Build Random Forest binary classificaDon model on historical data to predict outcome• Build Random Forest regression model to esDmate exit

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Startup Leaderboard

Ranking

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Tracking >1,000 early stage startupsData is updated every day

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I am Wei Zhang

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Computer Science PhD, University of Notre Dame

What I do for fun:

My research: -‐Data Mining -‐BioinformaDcs

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Average accuracy: 75%Average precision: 80%Average recall: 75%

ValidaDon: 5-‐fold cross validaDon

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Feature importance

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