Profiles
Your profile is your home on Founder Festival. It's AI-generated from public signals and gives the community an at-a-glance read on your caliber as a founder and investor. This page explains what's on it and how to make it yours.
Your scores at a glance
Every profile carries two headline scores:
- Founder score — how strong the signals are around your work building companies.
- Investor score — how strong the signals are around your work as an investor.
A higher score reflects stronger signals of founder or investor caliber. We don't publish the exact formula, but the scores are computed consistently for everyone from publicly available information. If you've only ever been one or the other, you'll typically see just the relevant score. Next to each score, a small marker shows your status — a green check for a current founder/investor, and an asterisk for past or not yet — so the number always has context.
Badges
Badges are achievement markers that summarize notable facts — things like serial founder, first-time founder, accelerator alumni, funds raised or deployed, exits, and industry focus. They're color-coded by category so related accomplishments group visually. The AI infers these from public signals; once you claim your profile, you can confirm, edit, add, or hide them so they reflect reality.
The Credibility radar
The Credibility radar breaks your score into its underlying dimensions and plots them as a multi-axis chart, each axis percentile-ranked against your peers. It's the fastest way to see where you're strongest and where there's room to grow. If you have both a founder and an investor score, a toggle lets you switch between the two radars.
The Relationship Matrix
Just below the radar, the Relationship Matrix compares you to other profiles across each dimension, surfacing people who are most like you, most complementary, and least like you. It's a discovery tool — click any pill to jump straight to that person's profile. Like the radar, it offers a founder/investor toggle when both scores apply.
Claiming and verifying
Profiles start unclaimed and AI-generated, which means they can contain inaccuracies. Claiming verifies that the profile is yours: continue with LinkedIn or GitHub, and once confirmed you become the verified owner. From there you can edit details, manage badges, control privacy, and add family or partners. See Account for the full set of owner controls.
Scoring Proposed Events
Founder Festival will propose a set of IRL events that we think you would be interested in based on what we know about you. When you score your interest in each of those events, you give us a high-quality signal about what you would consider worth your time attending. We use this signal to prioritize future IRL Founder Festival events. Besides claiming your profile, this is the number one thing that you can do to improve your (and everyone else's) Founder Festival experience.
Endorsements
Endorsements are how the community vouches for one another in their own words — and they carry real weight.
- What it is. An endorsement is a public (or selectively visible) note you write about another member, attached to their profile. You can endorse each person once, and you can edit or remove your endorsement later.
- You spend points. Endorsing isn't free. You're allocating a portion of your own Festival points to back someone, and those points are yours to distribute across everyone you choose to endorse. You decide how many to apply, and you can rebalance them over time. You can also upvote (co-sign) an existing endorsement by adding your own points to it.
- Why it matters. Because endorsing costs you something, it's a credible signal — not a free like. The points you and others contribute add up into a visible total on each endorsement, so heartfelt, well-backed endorsements rise to the top. It's one of the most meaningful ways to support people you believe in.
Visit the Leaderboard to see how scores rank across the whole community.