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One page per entry, ranked by F0.5: what it scored, what it cost per 1,000 founders, how it was run and how it compares with tier-1 VCs. Board as of 2026-10-07.

#1 · Vela + Oxford · Hybrid

Think-Reason-Learn Ensemble

F0.5 37.9 · precision 40.6% · recall 30.1% · $0.87 per 1,000 founders · 3.5× tier-1 VCs

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#2 · Investinor · Classical ML

Investinor Linear v1

F0.5 33.8 · precision 38.7% · recall 22.5% · $0 per 1,000 founders · 3.2× tier-1 VCs

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#3 · OpenAI · Reasoning

GPT-6 Sol

F0.5 33.7 · precision 45.1% · recall 17.0% · $1.45 per 1,000 founders · 3.1× tier-1 VCs

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#4 · Vela + Oxford · Reasoning

Policy Induction

F0.5 33.0 · precision 34.9% · recall 27.2% · $0.30 per 1,000 founders · 3.1× tier-1 VCs

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#5 · Madhusudhana Naidu · Reasoning

GemVC-v0

F0.5 32.9 · precision 39.4% · recall 20.3% · $2.87 per 1,000 founders · 3.1× tier-1 VCs

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#6 · Vela + Oxford · Reasoning

Reasoned Rule Mining

F0.5 32.2 · precision 34.8% · recall 24.9% · $0.31 per 1,000 founders · 3.0× tier-1 VCs

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#7 · Pvalyou · Classical ML

Pvalyou Founder Model (ML)

F0.5 31.5 · precision 38.2% · recall 18.8% · $0 per 1,000 founders · 2.9× tier-1 VCs

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#8 · Vela + Oxford · Reasoning

Random Rule Forest

F0.5 31.3 · precision 37.9% · recall 18.5% · $0.13 per 1,000 founders · 2.9× tier-1 VCs

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#9 · Vela + Oxford · Classical ML

Verifiable-RL

F0.5 29.4 · precision 29.1% · recall 30.6% · $0 per 1,000 founders · 2.7× tier-1 VCs

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#10 · Yagiz Ihlamur · Classical ML

Structured-Rule-Stump

F0.5 28.1 · precision 32.8% · recall 18.0% · $0 per 1,000 founders · 2.6× tier-1 VCs

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#11 · Vela + Oxford · Classical ML

verifiable-reasoning

F0.5 27.7 · precision 30.6% · recall 21.0% · $0 per 1,000 founders · 2.6× tier-1 VCs

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#12 · Anthropic · Reasoning

Claude Sonnet 5

F0.5 27.7 · precision 69.3% · recall 8.1% · $2.20 per 1,000 founders · 2.6× tier-1 VCs

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#13 · Vela + Oxford · Classical ML

large-founder-model-v0

F0.5 27.2 · precision 31.7% · recall 17.5% · $0 per 1,000 founders · 2.5× tier-1 VCs

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#14 · OpenAI · Reasoning

GPT-6 Luna

F0.5 26.1 · precision 33.3% · recall 14.1% · $0.11 per 1,000 founders · 2.4× tier-1 VCs

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#15 · OpenAI · Reasoning

GPT-4o

F0.5 25.7 · precision 30.0% · recall 16.3% · $1.55 per 1,000 founders · 2.4× tier-1 VCs

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#16 · Columbia · Reasoning

FinGPT-VC2

F0.5 24.9 · precision 24.4% · recall 27.2% · 2.3× tier-1 VCs

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#17 · Anthropic · Reasoning

Claude Opus 5.5

F0.5 24.7 · precision 77.7% · recall 6.7% · $5.33 per 1,000 founders · 2.3× tier-1 VCs

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#18 · OpenAI · Reasoning

GPT-6 Astra

F0.5 24.3 · precision 56.8% · recall 7.4% · $7.49 per 1,000 founders · 2.3× tier-1 VCs

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#19 · OpenAI · Reasoning

GPT-4o-mini

F0.5 23.0 · precision 31.5% · recall 11.1% · $0.09 per 1,000 founders · 2.1× tier-1 VCs

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#20 · Anthropic · Reasoning

Claude Haiku 4.5

F0.5 22.6 · precision 21.2% · recall 30.1% · $0.97 per 1,000 founders · 2.1× tier-1 VCs

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#21 · Columbia · Reasoning

FinGPT-VC1

F0.5 22.2 · precision 21.8% · recall 24.2% · 2.1× tier-1 VCs

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#22 · OpenAI · Reasoning

o3

F0.5 21.5 · precision 43.2% · recall 7.4% · $9.25 per 1,000 founders · 2.0× tier-1 VCs

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#23 · Vela + Oxford · Reasoning

GPTree

F0.5 20.6 · precision 19.4% · recall 27.2% · $0.12 per 1,000 founders · 1.9× tier-1 VCs

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#24 · Google · Reasoning

Gemini 2.5 Pro

F0.5 19.9 · precision 17.1% · recall 58.0% · $11.51 per 1,000 founders · 1.9× tier-1 VCs

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#25 · DeepSeek · Reasoning

DeepSeek-Reasoner

F0.5 18.4 · precision 31.8% · recall 6.9% · $1.36 per 1,000 founders · 1.7× tier-1 VCs

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#26 · Anthropic · Reasoning

Claude 3.5 Haiku

F0.5 18.2 · precision 15.8% · recall 46.4% · $0.52 per 1,000 founders · 1.7× tier-1 VCs

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#27 · OpenAI · Reasoning

GPT-5

F0.5 16.2 · precision 59.1% · recall 4.2% · $11.23 per 1,000 founders · 1.5× tier-1 VCs

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#28 · Google · Reasoning

Gemini 2.5 Flash

F0.5 14.9 · precision 12.5% · recall 68.4% · $2.87 per 1,000 founders · 1.4× tier-1 VCs

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#29 · DeepSeek · Reasoning

DeepSeek-Chat

F0.5 12.1 · precision 80.6% · recall 3.0% · $0.17 per 1,000 founders · 1.1× tier-1 VCs

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#30 · Humans · Humans

Tier-1 VCs

F0.5 10.7 · precision 23.0% · recall 5.2%

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#31 · Baseline · Baseline

Random Classifier

F0.5 9.0 · precision 9.0% · recall 9.0% · $0 per 1,000 founders

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#32 · Humans · Humans

Y Combinator

F0.5 8.6 · precision 14.0% · recall 6.9%

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