Summary of Automating Venture Capital: Founder Assessment Using Llm-powered Segmentation, Feature Engineering and Automated Labeling Techniques, by Ekin Ozince et al.
Automating Venture Capital: Founder assessment using LLM-powered segmentation, feature engineering and automated labeling techniques
by Ekin Ozince, Yiğit Ihlamur
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The study applies large language models (LLMs) to venture capital (VC) decision-making, predicting startup success based on founder characteristics. The authors use LLM prompting techniques, such as chain-of-thought, to generate features from limited data and extract insights through statistics and machine learning. The results show potential relationships between certain founder characteristics and success, as well as the effectiveness of these characteristics in prediction. This framework for integrating ML techniques and LLMs has vast potential for improving startup success prediction, with important implications for VC firms seeking to optimize their investment strategies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The study uses big language models to help venture capital companies decide which startups will be successful. They use special techniques to get the most information out of a small amount of data, and then use statistics and machine learning to understand what makes a startup successful. The results show that certain things about the founder can predict how well their company will do, and this could be very helpful for venture capital companies trying to make smart investments. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Prompting
