Curious if this is actually true, statistically speaking. Is there some statistically significant relationship between delaying profitability, investment and e

Curious if this is actually true, statistically speaking. Is there some statistically significant relationship between delaying profitability, investment and exit size? It would be interesting to see aggregated data on this. Ie, look at companies by cohort, determine if / when they became profitable, how many exited, at what amount, and how many failed, how many flatlined.