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57th percentile
Serial founder with 2002 exit now building Tradefox, a scrap-recycling intelligence platform
Credibility
Operator · 57th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Tradefox, a business intelligence platform for the global scrap recycling industry.
- Past founder of D. Y. INDUS, Inc., Environmental Waste Consultants, Inc., and Trucking Jobs, Inc.
- Co-founded Trucking Jobs, Inc. with Paul Still and Steve Nippert, and co-founded D. Y. INDUS, Inc.
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of Tradefox, a business intelligence platform for the global scrap recycling industry.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of D. Y. INDUS, Inc., Environmental Waste Consultants, Inc., and Trucking Jobs, Inc.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Co-founded Trucking Jobs, Inc. with Paul Still and Steve Nippert, and co-founded D. Y. INDUS, Inc.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Tradefox has raised $3.9M in total funding across 7 prior funding rounds.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)First entrepreneurial exit in 2002 when Trucking Jobs, Inc. was sold.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Currently works at Tradefox, which is listed on The Org (theorg.com, Majestic Million rank 17,051).
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal moment where Tradefox's traction with 6,000+ companies needs to translate into a credible Series A story for institutional VCs — so the highest-leverage Festival events for you are intimate dinners with B2B SaaS-focused Series A investors and founders who've navigated similar industrial-vertical raises. You'd also benefit from roundtables with trade media journalists and distribution-heavy industry association leaders who can turn your self-asserted credibility into corroborated signal. Tactical sessions on Product Hunt launch strategy and public founder narrative-building would round out your Festival experience by strengthening the digital footprint institutional investors will scrutinize.
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 founder dinner with B2B SaaS-focused institutional VCs (think Bessemer, Craft Ventures, Insight Partners) who back vertical SaaS and trade intelligence platforms, to pressure-test Tradefox's 6,000+ customer traction story and 7-round funding history
- fundraisingA roundtable for founders who've raised Series A rounds in industrial or commodity-vertical SaaS (e.g., Flexport, Anvyl, or similar supply-chain-adjacent companies) to benchmark Tradefox's PartnerLink positioning and learn which metrics moved institutional investors
- positioningA small off-the-record dinner with TechCrunch enterprise beat reporters and Bloomberg Commodities journalists to brief them on Tradefox's PartnerLink product and the $400B+ global scrap metal market opportunity, converting your traction into two independent press mentions
- tacticalA Product Hunt launch veterans happy hour with founders who've hit #1 in the B2B SaaS category to get a pre-launch checklist, hunter introductions, and a coordinated upvote network before Tradefox's PartnerLink goes live
- introsAn invite-only dinner connecting Tradefox with senior leaders from ISRI (Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries) and BIR (Bureau of International Recycling) to formalize distribution partnerships that turn your 6,000-company user base into an association-endorsed standard
- positioningA small workshop for serial founders on translating multi-exit histories — including early-era exits like your 2002 Trucking Jobs sale — into a cohesive LinkedIn and press narrative that institutional VCs read as pattern-matched founder signal rather than scattered bets
- hiringA hiring roundtable for sub-15-person B2B SaaS companies looking to make their first dedicated sales or growth hire, with founders who've successfully recruited revenue leaders for industrial or marketplace verticals to help Chris define the right profile for Tradefox's Southeast Asia expansion
- tacticalAn office hours session with a startup securities attorney and founders who've cleaned up multi-round SEC Form D filings before a Series A process, to ensure Tradefox's Scrap Connection and Tradefox filing history is airtight before institutional investors run their diligence