Deedy updates founder signals for predicting top-tier VC seed and Series A deals

Deedy (@deedydas) on X has revised his list of founder signals for predicting top-tier VC seed and Series A investment.

The update follows feedback on his earlier version and extends the founding years to 2019–2026 while roughly doubling the startup sample.

The revised list adds ex-frontier-lab and cybersecurity backgrounds near the top. Deedy treats IIT education as a positive signal and education in China as a negative one. The full set of signals is in an image attached to the post, which this summary does not reproduce.