The Institute
Independent, nonprofit, and built to be cited.
We study how venture capital works, how it shapes who builds technology, and who benefits. We make our research open, inform capital and technology policy, and bring people together to put the evidence to use.
We want research to help people ask better questions, whether they are building a fund, allocating capital or shaping policy.
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Research and field intelligence
We study how venture capital works and make the findings available to everyone, with particular attention to emerging and underrepresented ecosystems.
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Policy and capital systems
We examine how capital shapes who builds technology and who benefits from it, including artificial intelligence. That evidence informs policy and efforts to direct capital to founders, managers and the organizations that support them.
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Convening and field building
We bring allocators, managers, researchers and other stakeholders together to work through shared questions and turn evidence into practical action.
Governance
How we protect research independence.
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
Work with the Institute.
Every partnership follows our independence policy. We set the research agenda, methods and findings; funders have no role in those decisions.
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
Help the research reach further.
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
Have a research question or an idea for working together? Contact us about methods, partnerships, funding, convenings or media inquiries.
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