Leaderboard
The Leaderboard is the community's shared ranking of founders and investors. It's the fastest way to discover standout people, see where you stand, and find someone specific. This page explains how it works.
How ranking works
Every scored profile appears on the Leaderboard, ranked by score. A higher score reflects stronger signals of founder or investor caliber, computed consistently for everyone from public information. By default the highest scores sit at the top, but you can flip the order to explore from the bottom up. The board paginates as you scroll, so you can keep going as deep as you like.
Founder vs. investor scores
The Leaderboard has three views:
- Founder: ranks by founder score and shows people who score as founders.
- Investor: ranks by investor score and shows people who score as investors.
- Both (combined): ranks everyone by their combined score.
Someone strong on both dimensions appears in each view. Switching views simply changes which score the ranking uses and which people qualify.
What the check-mark and asterisk mean
Next to each score is a small status marker that tells you the person's relationship to that role:
- Green check-mark: a current founder or investor.
- Gold asterisk: a past founder or investor.
- Red asterisk: not (yet!) a founder or investor.
These markers appear for both the founder and investor columns, so you can quickly read someone's trajectory without opening their profile. Separately, a claimed badge marks profiles whose owners have verified them, a helpful trust signal, since unclaimed profiles may contain inaccuracies.
Filtering and searching
The Leaderboard is built for discovery. You can narrow the list by:
- Stage and outcome (for example, companies that reached an IPO or were acquired).
- Industry: filter to a specific space like AI/ML or fintech.
- Badges: show only people carrying a particular achievement pill.
- Funds raised and team size ranges.
- Family & Kids: find members who've publicly shared that they have children, a spouse, a partner, or pets (useful for family-friendly events).
Each filter shows a live count so you know how many profiles match before you apply it, and the headline updates to reflect how many founders and investors match your current filters.
To find a specific person, use the search box. It matches across name, company, and LinkedIn handle, works across multiple words, and is accent-insensitive, so a partial query like "sam odio" will find "Samuel … Odio." Search respects whatever filters you have active, so you can search within a narrowed set.