Labx journey started several years ago, when our Founders asked a very profound question:

“What if we think differently and reduce the uncertainty involved in venture start-up investing and develop a new paradigm shift where investors consistently pick winners most of the time?”

By using advanced scientific methods and advanced technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Algorithms and Venture Analytics, we have engineered a new future for venture funding as a leader in the new category of Venture Science.

• NASA thought differently and solved the problem of putting the first man on the moon.

• Steve Jobs thought differently and created a new category of smartphones.

• Google used science and technology to create the fastest and deepest search engine.

Now, Labx has created a game-changer with our proprietary New Venture Accessor (NVA) to find winning investments.

Warren Buffett famously said, “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”  Our powerful assessor tool helps us to eliminate subjectivity when selecting venture start-ups by applying the principles of Venture Science to support our platform and craft predictable outcomes.

Our objective is to share our breakthrough platform and methodologies to solve the problem of selecting the best startup and emerging growth opportunities thereby creating above average returns for our entrepreneurs and their investors.

After many years of research, learning, testing and trial, our New Venture Assessor (NVA) was developed to examine and analyze new venture start-up companies.

Our assessor is comprised of four core elements and steps.  Each element in the assessment process is a critical part of the Labx platform:

Elements of our New Venture Assessor (NVA)

Our New Venture Assessor is in-depth, rigorous and includes:

• up to 150 query levels

• up to 600 sub-levels

• allows for over 5,000 points of information to be analyzed and scored

The Labx system is a Venture Science-based platform governed by key rules, algorithms, pattern recognition and objective scientific methods. 

Our New Venture Assessor (NVA) is driven by a complex rules-engine, creating an objective evaluation that yields a predictive, FICO-like score for every start-up company we assess to help us decide whether that start-up is a strong candidate for investment.

Not only does our assessor screen and select companies for our portfolio, it has the power to make specific scientifically-based prescriptive recommendations for the advancement of the company and its outcomes.  These prescriptive elements of our platform are supported by subject matter experts through collaborative problem-solving sessions in our Venture Innovation Lab using respected, proven tools like Group Genius and TRIZ.  (see our LAB section)

Published, university led, double-blind testing of our New Venture Assessor suggests that we should expect the number of investments with successful exits in our fund to be substantially better than funds outside of the Labx platform, because most other funds lack a scientific assessor, follow-on innovation tools, or a cooperative platform. 

Our comprehensive platform, with our core assessor technology and its FICO-like predictive evaluation, selects then funds new ventures in co-investment with our strategic investor alliances.  We then enhance and advance our portfolio companies outcomes and strategies in our Venture Innovation Lab.

Labx Ventures is a Platform Business Model with a Whole Product Solution.  In other words, Labx is a complete, turn-key system that supports an entire venture, from start-up assessment and screening to exit. 

Our platform constructs an alliance between entrepreneurs, strategic investors and innovation experts.

Our platform involves input and cooperation from venture candidates and entrepreneurs, strategic investors, alliance partners, our assessor software system, our Venture Innovation Lab and a myriad of subject matter experts and known opinion leaders.  Every partner benefits.  Our platform is complex, objective and driven by science.  We expect that the number of investments that see successful exits could be substantial.

VENTURE SCIENCE CAPITAL IS DATA-DRIVEN

PUBLISHED RESEARCH & TESTING

Our assessor has been tested in two, separate double-blind studies, one of which was conducted at the University of Texas in Austin.  The first formal test of our analytic was conducted and analyzed by Silicon Valley’s preeminent venture law firm of Wilson Sonsini, with stringent oversight by other independent entities. 

Wilson Sonsini Facility
Silicon Valley, California

The results of this challenge: 

With this stunning outcome, we decided it was essential to re-test under even more stringent and broader oversight.  Labx Ventures then brought its system and its acumen to the prestigious McCombs IC² Institute at the University of Texas School of Business at Austin, to be independently tested using double-blind scientific methodology.

This time, we correctly predicted—with over 80% accuracy—whether investors would have a high R.O.I. within 7 years.

We’re not the first to finally use measurable, empirical data to analyze potential start-ups, but we are the only process we know of that has been scientifically vetted with two independent double-blind tests (n=19), as well as hundreds of actual evaluations of critical planning elements with real-world companies.  See links below for a copy of the Final Report issued by the University of Texas Business School and IC² Institute.

CONSULTED    ●  TESTED   ●   TAUGHT