The Institute
Independent, nonprofit, and built to be cited.
Colibrí Institute strengthens venture capital ecosystems by producing open research, informing the capital and policy systems that determine who builds and who benefits from technology, and coordinating stakeholders to turn evidence into durable action.
Evidence becomes operational when it is translated into the language of the people who allocate.
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Research and field intelligence
Rigorous, open-access research that improves how venture capital functions, with particular relevance for emerging and underrepresented ecosystems.
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Policy and capital systems
Informing technology policy where venture capital shapes who builds and benefits from artificial intelligence, anchored on increasing capital deployment to founders, managers, and the organizations that build ecosystems.
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Convening and field building
Serving as a neutral convener through allocator and manager dialogues, multi-stakeholder convenings, and university partnerships.
Governance
The research independence policy.
We determine our research agenda, our methods, our analysis, our interpretation, and our publication decisions. Research sponsors, funders, data partners, and commissioning organizations have no role in any of them, and no right of review before publication.
Colibrí Institute and Colibrí Strategies are separate organizations with separate governance, separate finances, and separate channels. The Institute publishes research. Strategies is a consulting firm. No client relationship of Strategies influences what the Institute studies or reports, and the two do not share owned channels or assets.
We describe systems, incentives, and patterns in data. We do not evaluate or rank individual firms, funds, or people in our published work. We report associations rather than causes, and we publish results that do not support our expectations at the same volume as the results that do.
Board of Directors
Six directors, including both co-founders and four independent directors from venture capital, institutional investing, and research.
See the boardFunding on the record
Each output names its funding. The Architecture of Returns and Why Emerging Venture Capital Managers Matter are Institute funded with no external sponsor.
Data licence
Fund performance data licensed from commercial providers and named in each paper.
Corrections
We publish our errata. See the policy
Partner with the Institute
Four ways institutions work with us.
Each one is governed by the same policy: we set the agenda, the method, and the findings, and no funder has a role in any of them.
Mode 01
Strategic research sponsorship
Underwrite a white paper or a note. Sponsors are acknowledged on the published work and have no role in the research.
Request the sponsorship briefMode 02
Co-development and embedded research
Data partnerships and joint studies with institutions that hold data the field needs analyzed.
Start a data conversationMode 03
Custom policy and capital analysis
Commissioned analysis for allocators, foundations, and public bodies working on allocation policy.
Commission analysisMode 04
Field building and convening
Co-host an allocator dialogue or a multi-stakeholder convening built around published evidence.
Discuss a conveningSupport the research
Open access is a decision, and it is why the work travels.
Publishing openly is what puts our findings in front of an investment committee that has never heard of us, in a policy comment letter, and in the syllabus of a course we will never teach. Support from institutions and individuals is what extends that reach.
Contact
Research and method questions, data partnerships, sponsorship, commissioned analysis, convenings, and media all reach us at one address.
hello@colibri.institute