Beyond Gut Feel: Using Time Series Transformers to Find Investment Gems
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| author | Cao, Lele Halvardsson, Gustaf McCornack, Andrew von Ehrenheim, Vilhelm Herman, Pawel |
| author_facet | Cao, Lele Halvardsson, Gustaf McCornack, Andrew von Ehrenheim, Vilhelm Herman, Pawel |
| contents | This paper addresses the growing application of data-driven approaches within the Private Equity (PE) industry, particularly in sourcing investment targets (i.e., companies) for Venture Capital (VC) and Growth Capital (GC). We present a comprehensive review of the relevant approaches and propose a novel approach leveraging a Transformer-based Multivariate Time Series Classifier (TMTSC) for predicting the success likelihood of any candidate company. The objective of our research is to optimize sourcing performance for VC and GC investments by formally defining the sourcing problem as a multivariate time series classification task. We consecutively introduce the key components of our implementation which collectively contribute to the successful application of TMTSC in VC/GC sourcing: input features, model architecture, optimization target, and investor-centric data processing. Our extensive experiments on two real-world investment tasks, benchmarked towards three popular baselines, demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in improving decision making within the VC and GC industry. |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond Gut Feel: Using Time Series Transformers to Find Investment Gems Cao, Lele Halvardsson, Gustaf McCornack, Andrew von Ehrenheim, Vilhelm Herman, Pawel Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Portfolio Management 91B84 (Primary) 68T07 (Secondary) I.2.6; I.2.1; H.4.0 This paper addresses the growing application of data-driven approaches within the Private Equity (PE) industry, particularly in sourcing investment targets (i.e., companies) for Venture Capital (VC) and Growth Capital (GC). We present a comprehensive review of the relevant approaches and propose a novel approach leveraging a Transformer-based Multivariate Time Series Classifier (TMTSC) for predicting the success likelihood of any candidate company. The objective of our research is to optimize sourcing performance for VC and GC investments by formally defining the sourcing problem as a multivariate time series classification task. We consecutively introduce the key components of our implementation which collectively contribute to the successful application of TMTSC in VC/GC sourcing: input features, model architecture, optimization target, and investor-centric data processing. Our extensive experiments on two real-world investment tasks, benchmarked towards three popular baselines, demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in improving decision making within the VC and GC industry. |
| title | Beyond Gut Feel: Using Time Series Transformers to Find Investment Gems |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Portfolio Management 91B84 (Primary) 68T07 (Secondary) I.2.6; I.2.1; H.4.0 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16888 |