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Founder216Current founder
95th percentile
Investor42Current investor
79th percentile
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YC W07 co-founder and CTO of Weebly, acquired by Square for $365M
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 98th percentile
- Current Co-Founder and CTO of Weebly, Inc., a role he has held since September 2006.
- Weebly is a Y Combinator Winter 2007 alum.
- Weebly was co-founded by David Rusenko, Chris Fanini, and Dan Veltr.
- Named related person on Weebly's SEC Form D exempt-offering filing, confirming his officer/founder role at the company.
- Google maintains a knowledge panel for Chris Fanini as Co-Founder of Weebly.
- Featured in a TechCrunch article about Weebly's acquisition by Square, demonstrating strong press coverage of his founder journey.
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current Co-Founder and CTO of Weebly, Inc., a role he has held since September 2006.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Weebly is a Y Combinator Winter 2007 alum.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Named related person on Weebly's SEC Form D exempt-offering filing, confirming his officer/founder role at the company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)weebly.com ranks #118 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Weebly was acquired by Square (Block) for $365M.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Weebly was co-founded by David Rusenko, Chris Fanini, and Dan Veltr.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Weebly raised $35.7M in total funding per SEC Form D and Crunchbase records.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)1,050 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind weebly/Cereal, a flagship open-source project with 369 stars on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Penn State University honored Chris Fanini with the Alumni Achievement Award for extraordinary professional accomplishment.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Google maintains a knowledge panel for Chris Fanini as Co-Founder of Weebly.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Weebly was named one of Time's 50 best websites of 2007, reflecting early product recognition.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Featured in a TechCrunch article about Weebly's acquisition by Square, demonstrating strong press coverage of his founder journey.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Top company-corroborated YouTube video has approximately 3,880 views — modest thought-leadership reach.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified as a Hugging Face author (@cfanini).
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of 4 companies including Tovala, Teachable, Parse, and Inflect.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has made 4 active angel investments per NFX Signal and Tracxn portfolio data.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has been investing since at least 2007 when Weebly was founded, representing approximately 18 years of investing experience (capped at 15 years).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio company Teachable was acquired (undisclosed value).
What you likely need
As the co-founder and CTO of Weebly — a YC W07 company acquired by Square for $365M — you sit at the intersection of technical founder credibility and early-stage angel investing. Events that connect you with other YC alumni founders and technical co-founders navigating post-acquisition paths would be most valuable, as would roundtables on angel investing strategy given your growing portfolio. Your deep product and engineering background makes you a natural fit for founder dinners focused on scaling technical teams and product-led growth.
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.
- introsA YC W07/early-batch alumni dinner to reconnect with fellow early YC founders and share post-acquisition learnings.
- tacticalAn angel investor roundtable with other operator-angels to sharpen deal sourcing and portfolio support strategies for seed-stage bets.
- positioningA technical co-founder dinner for CTOs and engineering-led founders to discuss scaling product orgs and navigating acqui-hire dynamics.
- introsA Square/Block alumni happy hour to build warm intros into the fintech and commerce infrastructure ecosystem post-acquisition.
- tacticalA SaaS founder workshop on product-led growth and SMB go-to-market, drawing on Weebly's experience serving 20M+ website creators.
- fundraisingAn edtech-focused angel syndicate dinner connecting investors in Teachable-adjacent companies building the future of online learning.
- introsA Penn State founder and alumni networking night to mentor the next generation of IST entrepreneurs and surface co-investment opportunities.