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35th percentile
Co-founder and CTO of Empowerly, $39M-backed edtech platform spanning 11 countries
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 39th percentile
- Empowerly is associated with lnkd.in (Majestic Million rank 454), earning a domain-rank bonus.
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current co-founder and CTO of Empowerly, active since January 2018.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Empowerly was co-founded with Hanmei Wu.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Empowerly has raised $39M in total funding across multiple rounds.
- 40%Probability of being accurate (40%)Empowerly is associated with lnkd.in (Majestic Million rank 454), earning a domain-rank bonus.
What you likely need
You're at the Series A-to-B inflection point with real traction — 160 employees, $39M raised, and 11 countries — so the events most valuable to you are the ones that put you in the room with growth-stage edtech investors and technical leaders who've scaled through exactly this moment. You'd also benefit from gatherings that sharpen your public voice in edtech AI, since your execution story deserves more visibility than it currently has. And given 8+ years of simultaneous founder-CTO mode, the right peer dinners will remind you that recovery isn't a luxury — it's a Series B strategy.
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 dinner with GSV Ventures, Owl Ventures, and Reach Capital partners specifically for edtech founders approaching Series B, where Changxiao can pressure-test Empowerly's $39M-raised, 11-country narrative ahead of a formal raise process
- introsA Conductive Ventures-hosted roundtable connecting their edtech portfolio founders with growth-stage investors in their network, designed to surface warm introductions to GSV Ventures and Owl Ventures for Empowerly's Series B
- introsA Princeton entrepreneurship alumni founder dinner — anchored by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council's existing feature of Changxiao — bringing together Princeton-network operators and investors for recruiting and investor intro conversations
- hiringA roundtable for Series A/B edtech and consumer-AI CTOs who've recently hired their first VP of Engineering or Engineering Director, sharing playbooks for making that transition without losing technical velocity
- positioningA dinner for AI-in-education technical founders publishing or speaking publicly — think Khanmigo, Synthesis, and College Vine CTOs — to workshop conference talk angles and blog post theses that establish a recognized voice in edtech AI
- tacticalA tactical workshop for founders with multi-country traction (10+ markets) on formalizing international GTM as a Series B narrative, with operators who've turned global footprint into a compelling growth-stage fundraising story
- wellbeingA small, off-the-record dinner for founders at the Series A-to-B inflection point — 5 to 8 people, no pitching — focused on sustainable pace, founder mental health, and how peers have carved out deliberate recovery without losing momentum