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Ask an LP what colour fintech is and they'll say blue. In this data it isn't even fintech's most common colour — and across the whole sample, blue runs at roughly half the Fortune 500's rate, the single largest gap of any colour measured. Read as a market-structure signal, not a stock-picking one.
We built a verification pipeline to keep the wrong logo out of a 499-company dataset. The two errors that got through were photographs of cars. Here, that same pipeline runs the sharpest test the data can support — logo colour against which well-funded companies later shut down — and the honest answer is a clean, well-powered null.
We built a dataset of 499 heavily-funded startup logos, verified every match by hand, pre-registered our exclusion rule before looking at the data — and watched our own headline finding weaken under its own scrutiny. Here's how the pipeline works and what actually held up.
We ranked Y Combinator's 2010–2019 companies by how often they died, sector by sector. Social startups died at ~58%; recruiting startups at ~15% — a four-fold spread. The ranking isn't random: two forces explain almost the whole gradient, and both are things a founder can see before they build.
Every accelerator tells founders B2B is the safer bet. We checked the outcomes of about 1,200 Y Combinator companies from batches old enough to have an answer. B2B companies died at 27%; consumer companies at 43%. But survival and returns turn out to be different instruments — and the advice quietly conflates them.
We built an outcome graph of ~6,900 accelerator companies — every Y Combinator batch and publicly announced Startmate cohorts — and linked each to what happened next. Three lessons: failure is the training data everyone throws away, selection and success are different instruments, and the outcome is the only signal that doesn't flatter you.
Most founders upload once and move on. The ones who reach investor-ready upload twice, in the right order. Data from the NUVC platform shows which dimension changes produce the biggest score jumps — and which ones are a waste of time.
Data from 286 pitch decks scored by NUVC shows a clear pattern: founders focus on market and product, but the lowest-scoring dimensions are risk acknowledgment (4.91/10) and financials (5.10/10). Here is what investors are actually checking.
AI can analyse a pitch deck across 7 investor dimensions in under two minutes. Here is what that means for founders — what AI finds, where most decks fall short, and how the evaluation process is changing.
390 deals. A$5.1B. Seed median up 150% in three years. AI captures 61% of capital but only 20% of deals. Here is what the State of Funding 2025 data actually means for founders raising right now.
Seed median hit A$2.5M in 2025, up 150% from 2022. AI now captures 61% of all AU VC capital. Only 22% of seed-funded startups reach Series A. Here are the benchmarks that should anchor every AU fundraise in 2026.
NUVC assigns every founder a raise probability score alongside their NuScore. Here is exactly how it is calculated, what the tiers mean, and what you can do to move yours up.
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