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. 2023 Apr 16;10(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s40537-023-00723-6

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