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72nd percentile
71st percentile
Forbes 30 Under 30 GP at General Atlantic and Ocean Link now founding Kite
Credibility
Domain Expertise · 96th percentile
- Recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, indicating notable public profile.
- Deep research credibility: h-index 78 on OpenAlex (20–49 tier exceeded; awarding h-index 20–49 tier +5).
- Identified researcher on OpenAlex with h-index 78 and 26,996 citations.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Kite, building programmable trust infrastructure for the Agentic Internet.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)gokite.ai ranks #310,123 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder of ZettaBlock, a Web3 data infrastructure startup (now a brand under DataLego Inc.).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Kite has raised $36M in total funding across 3 prior rounds.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Kite was co-founded with Scott Shi, confirming the company had co-founders.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, indicating notable public profile.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified Stack Overflow account with 851 reputation.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified researcher on OpenAlex with h-index 78 and 26,996 citations.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Deep research credibility: h-index 78 on OpenAlex.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Chi Zhang is a named related person (fund manager / GP) on Ocean Link Partners II, L.P., a pooled investment fund with a fund size of $490.7M, per SEC Form D filing.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Chi Zhang is a named related person (fund manager / GP) on General Atlantic Investment Partners 2017, L.P., a pooled investment fund, per SEC Form D filing.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with Series A-stage AI infrastructure investors and technical co-founders who can stress-test your Agentic Internet trust thesis. Dinners and roundtables that bridge your dual identity as a GP at Ocean Link and founder of Kite are especially high-leverage — they let you activate co-investor relationships while building Kite's deal narrative. Targeted hiring and brand-building sessions with Stanford and Forbes 30 Under 30 networks will help you scale the team and sharpen the ZettaBlock vs. Kite story before your next round.
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 Series A fundraising dinner with General Catalyst and PayPal Ventures portfolio founders to pressure-test Kite's Agentic Internet trust infrastructure narrative ahead of a formal raise
- introsA GP/LP roundtable with fellow Ocean Link Partners II co-investors and select crossover funds to surface warm introductions into Kite's Series A syndicate
- positioningA Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Tech cohort dinner to sharpen Kite's public brand narrative and identify co-authors or press collaborators for AI agent trust thought leadership
- hiringA StartX mentor office hours session with Stanford-affiliated technical founders to source early design partners and senior ML hires for Kite's trust infrastructure stack
- tacticalA technical founder dinner for PhD-background AI and Web3 infrastructure builders to workshop publishing strategies — blog posts, arXiv papers, or conference talks — that establish Kite as the category-defining trust layer for AI agents
- positioningA product-positioning roundtable with B2B SaaS and developer-tools founders who have navigated multi-product brand architecture to clarify the ZettaBlock vs. Kite narrative under DataLego Inc. before investor confusion compounds at Series A
- hiringA structured hiring workshop with founders who scaled from 10 to 50 engineers at AI infrastructure companies — specifically addressing employer brand and pipeline design to sustain Kite's 257% YoY headcount growth without a founder bottleneck
