Predicting Startup Performance Metrics**

今天，私募市场企业没有标准化的成绩单，也没有通用的方法来描述企业的成熟度或潜在的成功机会。我们的行业合作伙伴FastApps的最初目标之一是创建一个自动化的全面业务分析和基准平台，以便于计算初创公司的成功概率。该项目将是朝着以下方向迈出的重要一步：1)开发软件，自动收集加拿大公司的公开数据，并将其处理成机器可读/可测量的格式；2)创建一套衡量公司成功程度的指标，使投资和咨询公司能够获得关于其投资的潜在未来结果的更透明的数据；以及3)提供预测分析工具，帮助了解哪些公司将在给定的时间段内取得成功。

Today, there is no standardized report card for private market businesses, no common way to describe the maturity or potential chance of success the business has. Amongst its initial goals, our industrial partner, FastApps, is creating an automated holistic business analysis and benchmarking platform to facilitate the calculation of a probability of success of early stage companies. This project will be an instrumental step towards: 1) develop software that will automatically gather publicly available data on Canadian companies and process this into a machine readable/measurable format; 2) create a set of metrics, which would be indicative of a company's level of success to enable investment and consulting firms to have access to more transparent data about potential future outcomes with regards to their investments; and, 3) provide a predictive analysis tool that helps in understanding which companies will be successful in a given time period.