US venture: Risk, values, founder outcomes
summary
Builds a value‑weighted venture index from 28,000 venture-backed companies and about 74,000 funding rounds, using VentureSource plus manual vetting and monthly valuation with quarterly updates. Companies enter at first institutional round and leave at IPO, acquisition, or shutdown; missing rounds get triangulated valuations and long dormancy is treated as decay to worthlessness. The index excludes buyouts, reports investor returns before 2% fees and 20% carry, and breaks out success rates and surprising founder outcome patterns including differences for female founders.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 0:09Why build an index?
- 0:26What we collect
- 2:14The index
- 3:08Compile monthly, update quarterly
- 3:53From first round to exit: A value for every company, every month
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