A Start-Up Says It Can Predict Others’ Fate

February 19, 2008

Is your start-up worthy of investment? Ask the venture investor in a box.

Two former Oxford University students are getting attention (and seed money) in Silicon Valley for developing new technology that automates aspects of the venture capital decision-making process.

Kirill Makharinsky, 21, and Bob Goodson, 27, call their software a “start-up predictor,” and they say their company, http://www.YouNoodle.com, might give an edge to venture capitalists and other investors trying to decide whether to sink money into an early-stage company.

By MATT RICHTEL

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