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Private Company Benchmark Lab

Where do your KPIs actually rank? Benchmark growth, burn multiple, revenue efficiency, valuation, and employee productivity against a stage-and-sector cohort, and get a transparent read on your odds of pricing a round in the next 12 months. Two clearly labeled sources: ROSTER rows are real distributions computed live from the 1,959-company private-market roster; QL CALIBRATION rows are deterministic reference tables for the operating metrics no roster can see. Every percentile is explained — no black box, no stored data.

🔒 Anonymous by design — your numbers never touch a database. Benchmarking runs in the request and is forgotten. (This page keeps a local copy of the form in your browser only.)
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Your Company — Never Stored

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Peer Standing

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Metric by Metric

Bars run 0→100th percentile with ticks at the cohort's 25th / 50th / 75th. ROSTER = computed live from the private-company roster · QL CALIBRATION = authored 2026 reference quantiles. Inverted metrics (burn multiple) are direction-corrected: a higher percentile always means better positioned.

Priced Round Within 12 Months

probability

How the Score Is Built

A transparent additive model: 35-point baseline, then every driver below moves it — the deltas always sum to the final score minus the baseline. Nothing hidden, nothing stored.

35
Baseline
Every company starts at 35 — most private companies do not price a round in any given 12-month window.

The Rubric, In the Open

The full scoring table the drivers above are drawn from — so you can see exactly what would move your number before you change a single input.

DriverBest caseGoodNeutralWorst case
Growth percentile (vs stage calibration)≥75th: +14≥50th: +7≥25th: 0<25th: −10
Burn multiple (profitable: +6)≤1×: +8≤1.8×: +5≤2.8×: 0≤4×: −6 · >4×: −12 · no growth: −14
Runway (no burn: −4)<9mo: +9*9–15mo: +515–24mo: 0>24mo: −8
Net revenue retention≥120%: +6≥105%: +3≥95%: 0<95%: −6
Sector heat (cohort 18-month raise share)≥45%: +8≥30%: +4≥15%: 0<15%: −5
Late-stage scarcity (Series D+ / Growth)earlier stages: 0D+ / Growth: −8

*Low runway raises the probability a raise happens — because it must — while destroying negotiating leverage. That asymmetry is the single most misread number in fundraising, which is why the caveat sits next to the dial. Scores clamp to 3–92; a visible "Probability cap" driver absorbs any clamp so the arithmetic always reconciles.

Implied Valuation Band

Two deliberately simple roster methods — cohort valuation-per-employee quartiles × your headcount, and cohort valuation-to-raised multiples × your total raised — intersected into one band. A quartile transfer from the tracked universe, not an appraisal.

Low (p25 methods)
Mid
High (p75 methods)

QL Ops Calibration Tables

Source label on benchmark rows: QL CALIBRATION (ql_calibration_2026). Burn multiple reads inverted — p10 is the best decile, p90 the worst.

Roster vs Calibration — Why Two Sources

 ROSTERQL CALIBRATION
What it isLive distributions computed from the 1,959-company private roster at request timeDeterministic quantile tables authored from published 2025–26 operating benchmarks
CoversValuation, total raised, headcount, age, capital velocity, valuation/employee, sector heatGrowth, burn multiple, NRR, gross margin, ARR per FTE
Bias to knowTracks well-known names — skews later and larger than startups at largeEditorial ranges, not measurements — anchored to public benchmark studies
Why splitReal is better than modeled where real existsNo private roster carries clean operating metrics — pretending it does would be fabrication

Runs With the Rest of the Desk

Scored above the cohort bar? Turn the benchmark into a raise on Capital Bridge — readiness score, dilution scenarios, deal room.
Build the investor shortlist that matches your sector and stage in Founder Match.
Watch your cohort's actual funding tape on the Private Markets Desk and the Private Companies Network.
Benchmarking institutional readiness rather than KPIs? That's the Private→Public Continuum.
How the Benchmark Lab works — and what it never does

Anonymous by design — your inputs travel in one HTTPS request, get benchmarked in memory, and are returned. No database write, no server-side log of your numbers, no account linkage of metrics. The only copy that persists is the form cache in your own browser (localStorage), which you can clear any time.

Roster rows — valuation, total raised, headcount, company age, capital velocity, and valuation-per-employee percentiles are computed live from the 1,959-company private roster. Cohorts take your sector (same canonical sector as Founder Match) at your stage band ±1; under 25 names the cohort relaxes to all sectors at your stage and says so. Percentiles are strict-below, so ties never inflate your rank. Note the honest caveat: the roster tracks well-known names, so "50th percentile" means the tracked universe — which skews later and larger than startups at large.

QL calibration rows — growth, burn multiple, NRR, gross margin, and ARR/FTE have no roster source, so they read against deterministic quantile tables authored from widely published 2025–26 SaaS and venture benchmarks (the Reference tab shows every number). Burn multiple is inverted — lower is better — and its percentile is direction-corrected before it touches the composite.

Composite & odds — the peer percentile is a weighted median of the graded axes (growth and burn count double). The fundraising probability is a 35-point baseline plus signed, explained drivers that always sum to the final score; it clamps to 3–92 because no additive model earns certainty. Low runway raises the probability — a raise becomes necessary — while the caveat spells out what necessity does to leverage.

What this is not — a valuation opinion, investment advice, or a prediction market. It is a mirror: your numbers against a labeled cohort, every step shown.