Supsindex Indices
The World of Entrepreneurial Indices
You Can’t Improve What You Can’t Measure
At Supsindex, we are architecting the world’s first comprehensive suite of scientifically grounded entrepreneurial indices: Designed to quantify the soft power of founders and founding teams.
These indices capture the behavioral, cognitive, and decision-making capabilities of founders. By transforming these otherwise invisible human factors into objective and comparable data, Supsindex enables founders, investors, institutions, and policymakers to make better decisions, reduce preventable failure, and build a more efficient, resilient global innovation ecosystem.
Why Indices Exist
In complex systems, raw data alone is not enough. When information becomes fragmented, multidimensional, and difficult to compare, decision-making defaults to intuition. This is why indices exist: to transform complexity into structured understanding.
Across economics, healthcare, education, and public policy, indices have long been used to:
- Condense complexity into interpretable measurements
- Enable comparison across people, organizations, and environments
- Create shared reference points for decision-making and accountability
Without indices, systems lack a common language for evaluation. Performance becomes subjective, progress becomes unclear, and improvement becomes inconsistent.
Entrepreneurship shares the same characteristics as these complex domains—high uncertainty, human-driven outcomes, and interdependent variables—but unlike them, it still lacks widely adopted, objective indices for assessing human capability. This gap is precisely why structured entrepreneurial indices are needed: to bring clarity, comparability, and accountability to the most critical layer of the innovation ecosystem—the people building it.
The Belief Behind Index Creation at Supsindex
At the core of Supsindex lies a simple but evidence-backed belief:
what cannot be measured objectively will continue to be decided subjectively—and fail systematically.
Supsindex is fundamentally an assessment framework and index-creation platform focused on measuring founders’ soft-skill DNA. We believe the future of measurement is decentralized — not in the sense of uncontrolled openness, but through structured collective intelligence. No single organization, regardless of how advanced its capabilities may be, can fully capture the complexity, contextuality, and cultural variability of global entrepreneurship.
The Index Studio is the embodiment of Supsindex’s decentralization principle. It transforms Supsindex from a closed assessment service into an open but governed workbench — providing the infrastructure, datasets, validation mechanisms, and methodological backbone required to design, test, and launch indices that respond to verified and critical market needs.
Why Does the Entrepreneurial World Need Indexes?
Venture Capital Churn Is Structurally Driven by Human Factors
From 2019 to 2024, the global venture capital market deployed $1.7 trillion in venture capital. Approximately $1.2 trillion of that capital was lost, with 60–70% of failures attributable to founder-related decisions.
Founding Team Assessment Is Still Largely Based on Intuition
From 2019 to 2024, the global venture capital market deployed $1.7 trillion in venture capital. Approximately $1.2 trillion of that capital was lost, with 60–70% of failures attributable to founder-related decisions.
Subjective Benchmarks Fail to Capture Decision-Making Quality
Without standardized indices to serve as objective benchmarks, founders navigate their entrepreneurial journey in a dark forest, unable to see their true strengths, blind spots, or stage readiness—signaling the next wave of venture capital loss for the ecosystem.
Fragile Team Compositions Remain Largely Unpredictable
Even when individual founder capabilities are strong, co-founder composition remains a leading cause of startup failure—and one the ecosystem still cannot reliably predict.
The Innovation Ecosystem Has Become Increasingly Demotivating
Driven by massive capital waste and persistently low success rates, the innovation economy has become more discouraging than welcoming, naturally deterring capable individuals from entering entrepreneurship altogether.
Data-Driven Clarity
Replacing Intuition with Science
The Indices Crafted by Supsindex
A suite of seven indices to assess every critical dimension of founder capability
Founder’s Individual Assessments
Founder Public Awareness
Measures a founder’s realistic understanding of entrepreneurial realities, market dynamics, and public-facing expectations.
General Entrepreneurial Behavior
Analyzes core mindset, resilience, ethical framework, and adaptive beliefs that shape long-term entrepreneurial effectiveness.
Ecosystem Environmental Awareness
Assesses a founder’s familiarity and strategic fit with target markets, regulatory environments, and cultural contexts.
Dedicated Requested Indexes
Assesses a founder’s familiarity and strategic fit with target markets, regulatory environments, and cultural contexts.
Beyond a “Personality Test”
The Visionary Index Issue
Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI)
Just as the Human Development Index (HDI) measures a nation’s well-being beyond GDP, Supsindex is building a composite and comprehensive index to assess entrepreneurial potential: The Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI)
It will not be a single score, but a dynamic, multi-dimensional framework derived from the weighted aggregation of Supsindex’s five core indices: FPA, GEB, EEA, FEE, and FDE.
Our goal is for the GEI to become the global gold standard for measuring entrepreneurial health and dynamism across individuals, teams, and ecosystems by 2028. The GEI will empower policymakers, investors, and entrepreneurs to make more strategic, data-driven decisions and navigate innovation with greater clarity and confidence.
Co-Creating the Next Generation of Indices
Who Can Contribute
Academic & Scientific Institutions
Contribute to scientific validation, psychometric design, methodology development, and joint research initiatives.
Experts, Mentors & Investors
Provide practical insight, identify recurring success and failure patterns, and help refine indices based on real founder behavior and outcomes.
Government & Regulatory Bodies
Co-develop Dedicated Requested Indexes (DI)—such as startup visa or policy-driven assessments—and translate aggregated insights into effective public policy.
Tech & Startup Media
Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and help surface emerging ecosystem needs that require new forms of measurement.