The aggregated failure rate of new business ideas funded in 1990-2015 according to the backed venture capital fund:

Fund name

Fund
name

Number of bets

Number
of bets

Failure rate

Failure
rate

500 Startups

Accel

Alchemist Accelerator

Alumni Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz

Atlas Venture

Bain Capital Ventures

Battery Ventures

BDC Venture Capital

Benchmark

Bessemer Venture Partners

BoxGroup

Bpifrance

Brand Capital

Canaan Partners

Creative Destruction Lab

CRV

DCM Ventures

EU Executive Agency for SMEs

East Ventures

Enterprise Ireland

Felicis Ventures

First Round Capital

FJ Labs

Foundation Capital

Founders Fund

FundersClub

General Catalyst

GGV Capital

Global Founders Capital

Greycroft

Greylock

GV

High-Tech Grunderfonds

Highland Capital Partners

Hiventures

IDG Capital

Index Ventures

Initialized Capital

Innovation Works

Intel Capital

Khosla Ventures

Kima Ventures

Kleiner Perkins

Lerer Hippeau

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MassChallenge

Matrix Partners

Matrix Partners China

Mayfield Fund

Menlo Ventures

National Science Foundation

New Enterprise Associates

Northstar Ventures

Norwest Venture Partners

Partech

Plug and Play Tech Center

Polaris Partners

Redpoint

Right Side Capital Management

RRE Ventures

Salesforce Ventures

Sand Hill Angels

Seedcamp

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital China

Sequoia Capital India

Silicon Valley Bank

Slow Ventures

SOSV

Spark Capital

Start-Up Chile

Startupbootcamp

SV Angel

Tech Coast Angels

Techstars

Tencent

Threshold

Trinity Ventures

True Ventures

Venrock

Venture Kick

Wavemaker Partners

Wayra

Y Combinator

ZhenFund

1,085

82

164

86

151

70

27

43

101

14

49

131

65

18

24

18

59

40

76

127

138

104

169

86

60

66

210

94

17

43

63

97

150

239

19

38

40

98

108

139

37

86

320

47

165

52

69

39

17

17

34

15

123

195

18

59

348

28

37

278

88

39

62

184

60

15

12

12

144

388

34

594

336

442

66

956

25

31

30

101

45

11

117

379

1,216

119

81.7%

54.9%

83.5%

90.7%

58.3%

44.3%

66.7%

46.5%

71.3%

50.0%

63.3%

61.1%

86.2%

88.9%

70.8%

77.8%

52.5%

60.0%

94.7%

80.3%

82.6%

45.2%

47.9%

74.4%

68.3%

65.2%

74.8%

61.7%

76.5%

74.4%

76.2%

56.7%

51.3%

81.2%

52.6%

97.4%

87.5%

61.2%

67.6%

80.6%

81.1%

74.4%

81.3%

68.1%

52.1%

63.5%

87.0%

56.4%

94.1%

52.9%

52.9%

86.7%

58.5%

92.3%

66.7%

67.8%

79.6%

42.9%

48.6%

71.2%

64.8%

69.2%

83.9%

78.3%

55.0%

80.0%

50.0%

75.0%

62.5%

93.3%

55.9%

96.3%

91.1%

54.1%

92.4%

76.2%

64.0%

51.6%

50.0%

53.5%

26.7%

100.0%

79.5%

92.9%

75.2%

79.8%

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