Prophecy Sciences
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Prophecy Sciences was a Y Combinator Winter 2013 startup founded by Bob Schafer that tried to transform recruiting with neuroscience. It built a novel battery of cognitive assessments combining behavioral testing with biosensor measurements, and used machine learning on the resulting behavioral and physiological signals to predict real-world performance — workplace output, athletic ability, team chemistry. A two-person B2B recruiting-and-talent team in San Francisco, it never raised venture-scale funding and was acquihired by Lumos Labs around 2015.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Bob Schafer founds Prophecy Sciences to predict real-world performance from physiological and cognitive signals.
- Product launch
Prophecy Sciences joins Y Combinator's Winter 2013 batch as a B2B recruiting and talent company.
- Acquisition
Prophecy Sciences is acquihired by Lumos Labs; the startup winds down.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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