Research and tools
The research is published elsewhere. The tools live here.
Colibrí Institute publishes the findings and holds the research independence policy. Colibrí Strategies builds what a practitioner does with them. Neither side edits the other's conclusions, and that separation is what makes the work usable as evidence rather than as marketing.
Applied findings
$72MEstimated cost of one allocator's access constraint
2,142U.S. venture capital funds in the underlying sample
2000–2024Vintage years covered, more than three market cycles
Findings published by Colibrí Institute. Figures reproduced with attribution.
Tools
Live
The $72M Question
What access constraints cost a single allocator, traced through the managers who never reached a second meeting. The applied version runs the same arithmetic against a live pipeline.
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Opportunity Cost Calculator
Fund count, cheque size, and the point in the process where managers drop out. Returns the cost of that constraint in the reader's own numbers, with every assumption shown.
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