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Table 1 A description of Investor Features used in the prediction model

From: Exploring investor-business-market interplay for business success prediction

Feature names

Description

Type of feature

Dimension size afterencoding

Investor name

Name of the investor in the company

Categorical

one hot encoded- 14 dimensions

Raised amount $USD

Amount raised by investors into the company in USD

Numerical

1-D

Raised amount $m

Amount raised by investors into the company in millions

Numerical

1-D

Raised amount $b

Amount raised by investors into the company in billions

Numerical

1-D

Raised amount $k

Amount raised by investors into the company in thousands

Numerical

1-D

Number of investors

Total No. of investors in the company

Numerical

1-D

Funding round type

Type of funding received by the company (seed, angel, VC ...)

Categorical

one hot encoded - 13 dimensions

Funding round code

Funding Codes defines the code of the funding received by the company (A,B,C ...)

Categorical

one hot encoded - 6 dimensions

Percentage of success rate by company

Success rate calculated by total number of companies invested by the investor(using business target(1))

Numerical

1-D

Percentage of failure rate

Failure rate calculated by total number of companies invested by the investor(using business target(0))

Numerical

1-D

Sum of successful raised amount

Total sum of amount raised by investors based on success

Numerical

1-D

Sum of failed raised amount

Total sum of amount raised by investors based on failure

Numerical

1-D

Total raised amount

Total sum of amount raised by investors including failed and successful companies

Numerical

1-D

Average funding received

Calculated the average amount of funding received by each investor to the company

Numerical

1-D

No. of successful companies

Count of successful companies by each investor

Numerical

1-D

No. of failed companies

Count of failed companies by each investor

Numerical

1-D

Funded at year

Year at which the company received it’s funding by investor

Numerical

1-D

Funded at month

Month at which the company received it’s funding by investor

Numerical

1-D

Funded at day

Day at which the company received it’s funding by investor

Numerical

1-D