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The Idea Manifold

6,850 companies across 6 programs, projected into one map of idea-space. Regions are colored by how often their matured companies went inactive — red zones are idea graveyards.

SurvivableGraveyardopacity = density

Hover a region to see who occupies that part of idea-space. Red = idea graveyards, green = survivable, faint = whitespace.

Failure rate = share of a region’s companies from batches ≤ 2021 (resolved outcomes) now Inactive. Sparse cells are de-emphasized. Click any example to open its profile.