In particular, each education entry has been assigned a degree type using a keyword search on the degree information reported by individuals, and a subject field following ISCED fields’ classification using a supervised machine learning technique that can be used for natural language processing. Past professional experiences have also been grouped into meaningful categories using keyword search on job titles (Annex A shows summary statistics of these variables). Instead, the dataset contains a large set of start-ups trying to raise capital - some of which succeeded and some of which failed (so far).