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Deedy updates the founder signals that predict top-tier VC seed and Series A investment

AIDeedy redid his founder signals for predicting top-tier VC seed and Series A investment after feedback, extending the founding years to 2019–2026 and roughly doubling the startup sample. He added ex-frontier-lab and cybersecurity backgrounds near the top, treats IIT as a positive signal, and counts education in China as a negative.
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I redid the startup founder signals that lead to top tier VCs investing in the seed / A, after incorporating some feedback.

This added ex-frontier lab and cyber security near the top, IIT as a positive, and educated in China as a negative.

The main changes were;
- extended founding year to 2019-2026, ~2x'd the number of startups
- unified and added some signals

Here are the new signals:

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Which startups are most likely to get an investment from top tier VCs? I looked at ~60 attributes across 5000 startups and these were the 15 strongest. #1 is being from a top tier fund. MBA is a negative signal Full list of signals below:
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