This profile has not been claimed and data may not be accurate.
90th percentile
51st percentile
3x YC founder who raised $60M+ building plant-based dairy, now building agentic AI at Clearly Labs
Credibility
Operator · 98th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Clearly Labs, an agentic AI company he started in August 2025.
- Y Combinator Winter 2019 alum via Eclipse Foods.
- Profiled by TechCrunch multiple times as co-founder and CEO of Eclipse Foods, a recognized food-tech innovator in plant-based dairy.
- Past founder of BrideBox and Photopaz, earlier companies he co-founded and led as CEO.
- Eclipse Foods was co-founded with Thomas Bowman, confirming co-founder status.
Relationship Matrix
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator Winter 2019 alum via Eclipse Foods.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Eclipse Foods raised $60M+ in total venture funding from investors including Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Forerunner Ventures, and Sozo Ventures.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of Clearly Labs, an agentic AI company he started in August 2025.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Eclipse Foods was co-founded with Thomas Bowman, confirming co-founder status.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)4,937 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Named inventor on 6 US patents.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Profiled by TechCrunch multiple times as co-founder and CEO of Eclipse Foods, a recognized food-tech innovator in plant-based dairy.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of BrideBox and Photopaz, earlier companies he co-founded and led as CEO.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Eclipse Foods secured a Wall Street Journal feature profile and coverage in The New York Times, CNBC, CNN, and Forbes — demonstrating strong go-to-market reach and distribution.
Investor score
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Has made approximately 1 active investment (Eclipse Foods) per the grounded investor portfolio data.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Has approximately 15 years of total professional experience, with investing activity noted in the grounded facts.
What you likely need
You're a 3x YC-backed founder with deep CPG and food-tech experience now pivoting into agentic AI with Clearly Labs — you'd benefit most from events that help you recruit early technical talent, pressure-test your AI product thesis with other founders, and build warm intros to seed-stage investors who back AI infrastructure plays. Your Eclipse Foods journey gives you hard-won operator credibility in scaling distribution and enterprise deals, which makes you a compelling peer for other founders navigating go-to-market in regulated or complex industries.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA YC W19 founder dinner to reconnect with batchmates and surface warm intros to seed-stage AI investors who already trust the YC network.
- tacticalAn agentic AI product roundtable with other early-stage founders building enterprise automation tools to pressure-test Clearly Labs' positioning and ICP.
- positioningA dinner for founders who have successfully pivoted from CPG or deep-tech into AI SaaS, to share playbooks on reframing operator credibility for a new sector.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with seed-stage AI-focused investors (Initialized Capital alumni network, YC Continuity) to get early feedback on Clearly Labs' fundraising narrative.
- hiringA happy hour for YC-backed founders at the 1–5 person stage to recruit founding engineers with enterprise data or AI infrastructure backgrounds for Clearly Labs.
- tacticalA workshop on enterprise go-to-market for AI tools, connecting founders who have sold into Kroger, Albertsons, or Fortune 500 accounts and are now translating that into SaaS deals.
- introsA food-tech and alternative-protein founder dinner to stay connected to the GFI and Eclipse Foods ecosystem and surface potential strategic partners or acquirers.