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+# Maverick <br> 
+Developed in my internship as a Machine Learning Engineer at [**Vela Partners**](https://vela.partners/). <br>
+The paper presenting Maverick can be found on my [GitHub](https://github.com/lukasec/Maverick).
+Maverick consists of two models published here on Hugging Face : [MAV-Moneyball](https://huggingface.co/lukasec/Maverick-Moneyball) & [MAV-Midas](https://huggingface.co/lukasec/Maverick-Midas)
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+**Abstract** <br>
+Maverick (MAV) is an AI-enabled algorithm to guide Venture Capital investment by leveraging BERT - the state-of-the-art deep learning model for NLP. Its ultimate goal is to predict the success of early-stage start-ups.
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+In Venture Capital (VC) there are two types of successful start-ups: those that replace existing incumbents (type 1), and those that create new markets (type 2). In order to predict the success of a start-up with respect to both types, Maverick consists of two models:
+* [**MAV-Moneyball:**](https://huggingface.co/lukasec/Maverick-Moneyball) predicts success of early stage start-ups of type 1.
+* [**MAV-Midas:**](https://huggingface.co/lukasec/Maverick-Midas)  predicts whether a start-up fits current investment trends made by the most successful brand and long-tail investors, thereby taking into account new emerging markets that do not necessarily already have established successful start-ups leading them - ie. start-ups of type 2.<br><br>
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+Maverick is developed through a transfer learning approach, by fine-tuning a pre-trained BERT model for type 1 and type 2 classification. Notably, both MAV-Moneyball and MAV-Midas achieve a true positive ratio greater than 70%, which in the context of VC investment is one of the most important evaluation criteria - it is the percentage of successful companies predicted to be successful by Maverick.