// ABOUT
We built the database investors
wished existed before the crash.
DEFINITION
UnicornBurn is a VC risk intelligence platform. It gives investors structured access to 4,998+ verified startup autopsies — each tagged across 15 dimensions — to identify portfolio failure patterns before they materialise.
Every major startup collapse leaves a pattern. The same structural mistakes — premature scaling, unit economics ignored, fundraising dependency, timing miscalculated — appear in documented collapses from 2001 to today. UnicornBurn makes those patterns queryable before they repeat in your portfolio.
// WHAT WE DO
Before IC, you need to know if this startup has structural precedents — and what killed them. UnicornBurn crosses 15 dimensions of a startup's profile (sector, country, stage, funding, moat type and strength, hype cycle, business model, B2B/B2C, founding year, archetype, primary fatal mistake) against every documented failure in our database. You get a ranked list of the closest historical analogues, a survival probability curve at 12/24/36 months, and the specific failure vectors most likely to apply. In minutes, not days.
// THE DATA
Every autopsy in our database is cross-checked against publicly available documentation — filings, postmortems, press records, founder accounts — before being included. We tag each case across 15 structured dimensions: sector, country, primary and secondary failure cause, collapse style, collapse velocity, moat type and strength, founder archetype, business model, B2B/B2C orientation, total funding, survival months, hype cycle, primary fatal mistake, and peak valuation. The precision required for pattern matching — not just categorisation.
// WHO USES IT
Investment analysts who need structural risk context before IC — not just a sector report. Partners validating whether a thesis has historical precedent. GPs running portfolio risk monitoring without adding headcount. Family offices with concentrated positions who need early warning signals. PE firms stress-testing operational assumptions against documented collapse patterns. Risk Matching is now part of the standard deal process at firms across 5 countries.
// CONTACT
For product questions, enterprise pricing, or data partnerships: hello@unicornburn.com
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