Table 2.
A description of Business Features used in the prediction model
| Feature names | Description | Type of feature | Dimension size after encoding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company domain | Domain of the company (.com,.net,.uk etc.) | Categorical | One hot encoded 5 dimension after encoding |
| Business sector | Type of business sector in which the company operates | Categorical | Count Vectorizer - 480 dimension (taken from market features) |
| Company status | Status of the company(closed, IPO, operating,Acquired) which later becomes the business target | Categorical | Binary label-1 dimension |
| Country_code | Country in which the company operates | Categorical | One hot encoded - 7 dimensions |
| Funding total $USD | Total amount of funding initially present in the company in USD | Numerical | 1-D |
| Funding total $m | Total amount of funding initially present in the company in millions | Numerical | 1-D |
| Funding total $b | Total amount of funding initially present in the company in billions | Numerical | 1-D |
| Funding total $k | Total amount of funding initially present in the company in thousands | Numerical | 1-D |
| Age of company | Age of company calculated using founded at date | Numerical | 1-D |
| Average duration of funding | Average funding received by the company | Numerical | 1-D |
| Funding duration days | The duration of the funding received by the company in days | Numerical | 1-D |
| Funding duration months | The duration of the funding received by the company in months | Numerical | 1-D |
| Funding duration years | The duration of the funding received by the company in years | Numerical | 1-D |
| Founded at day | The day at which the company was founded | Numerical | 1-D |
| Founded at month | The month at which the company was founded | Numerical | 1-D |
| Founded at year | The year at which the company was founded | Numerical | 1-D |
| First funding day | Day of the first funding received by the company | Numerical | 1-D |
| First funding month | Month of the first funding received by the company | Numerical | 1-D |
| First funding year | Year of the first funding received by the company | Numerical | 1-D |
| Last funding day | Day of the last funding received by the company | Numerical | 1-D |
| Last funding month | Month of the last funding received by the company | Numerical | 1-D |
| Last funding year | Year of the last funding received by the company | Numerical | 1-D |
| Funding round | Total rounds of funding received by the company | Numerical | Label encoded - 7 dimensions |