FinGPT-VC1 on VCBench
FinGPT-VC1 scores F0.5 22.2 on VCBench, the venture capital benchmark from the University of Oxford and Vela Research, with 21.8% precision and 24.2% recall on the 4,500-founder private test set. That is rank 21 of 32, 2.1× the F0.5 of tier-1 VCs and 2.6× Y Combinator.
- Rank
- #21 of 32
- F0.5
- 22.2
- Precision
- 21.8%
- Recall
- 24.2%
- Cost / 1k founders
- n/a
Scored on the 4,500-founder private test set, mean over three folds. That is 2.1× the F0.5 of tier-1 VCs. See the full leaderboard.
Compared with the reference rows
| Entry | Precision | Recall | F0.5 | Cost / 1k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FinGPT-VC1 | 21.8% | 24.2% | 22.2 | n/a |
| Think-Reason-Learn Ensemble | 40.6% | 30.1% | 37.9 | $0.87 |
| Tier-1 VCs | 23.0% | 5.2% | 10.7 | n/a |
| Y Combinator | 14.0% | 6.9% | 8.6 | n/a |
| Random Classifier | 9.0% | 9.0% | 9.0 | $0 |
Human rows are normalized to the dataset's 9% success rate, so every entry is compared on the same base rate. Costs use list prices on 2026-09-24.
How it was scored
An LLM reads each founder profile at scoring time and returns a prediction. The cost per 1,000 founders is not reported because the submitter did not share token counts, so this entry appears on the rankings but not on the cost chart.
Read more
- FinGPT-VC: Financial Large Language Models for Founder Success Prediction in Venture Capital (Jingyu Huang, Sitong Zhu, James Tang, Xiao-Yang Liu, Columbia University). Fine-tunes financial LLMs on VCBench; FinGPT-VC1 and FinGPT-VC2 are on the leaderboard.
Frequently asked questions
- What does FinGPT-VC1 score on VCBench?
- FinGPT-VC1 scores F0.5 22.2 on VCBench, with 21.8% precision and 24.2% recall, rank 21 of 32 as of 2026-10-07.
- Does FinGPT-VC1 beat human investors at predicting founder success?
- Yes. Its F0.5 is 2.1 times that of tier-1 VCs (10.7) and 2.6 times Y Combinator (8.6), after both are normalized to the dataset's 9% base rate.
- How much does FinGPT-VC1 cost per 1,000 founders?
- Not reported. The submitter did not share token counts, so FinGPT-VC1 appears on the rankings but not on the cost chart.