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Main Author: Tamura, Koutarou
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23364
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author Tamura, Koutarou
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contents This study proposes a method for predicting startup inclusion, estimating the probability that a venture capital fund will invest in a given startup. Unlike general recommendation systems, which typically rank multiple candidates, our approach formulates the problem as a binary classification task tailored to each fund-startup pair. Each startup is represented by integrating textual, numerical, and structural features, with Node2Vec capturing network context and multihead attention enabling feature fusion. Fund investment histories are encoded as LSTM based sequences of past investees. Experiments on Japanese startup data demonstrate that the proposed method achieves higher accuracy than a static baseline. The results indicate that incorporating structural features and modeling temporal investment dynamics are effective in capturing fund-startup compatibility.
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spellingShingle Predicting Startup-VC Fund Matches with Structural Embeddings and Temporal Investment Data
Tamura, Koutarou
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Social and Information Networks
J.4
This study proposes a method for predicting startup inclusion, estimating the probability that a venture capital fund will invest in a given startup. Unlike general recommendation systems, which typically rank multiple candidates, our approach formulates the problem as a binary classification task tailored to each fund-startup pair. Each startup is represented by integrating textual, numerical, and structural features, with Node2Vec capturing network context and multihead attention enabling feature fusion. Fund investment histories are encoded as LSTM based sequences of past investees. Experiments on Japanese startup data demonstrate that the proposed method achieves higher accuracy than a static baseline. The results indicate that incorporating structural features and modeling temporal investment dynamics are effective in capturing fund-startup compatibility.
title Predicting Startup-VC Fund Matches with Structural Embeddings and Temporal Investment Data
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Social and Information Networks
J.4
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23364