This profile has not been claimed and data may not be accurate.
Founder85Past founder
84th percentile
Investor16Past investor
55th percentile
Combined
Co-founder and CPO of acquired Thoughtful AI, now investing and advising startups
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Technical Depth · 65th percentile
- Most recent public GitHub push was approximately 110 days ago, within the last year.
- Active builder with 19 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- GitHub account @danparsons identified and linked to Dan Parsons.
- GitHub account is over 14 years old, created in January 2010.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)thoughtful.ai ranks #437,370 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of Thoughtful AI, DRYV, and ORA Interactive.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Thoughtful AI had co-founders, including Alex Zekoff as CEO and co-founder.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Thoughtful AI was acquired by New Mountain Capital in May 2025 (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Thoughtful AI raised $55.8M in total funding across 7 rounds.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)DRYV was acquired in 2018 (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)ORA Interactive was acquired by projekt202 (NASDAQ: DOX) in 2018 (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Active builder with 19 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account @danparsons identified and linked to Dan Parsons.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account is over 14 years old, created in January 2010.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Most recent public GitHub push was approximately 110 days ago, within the last year.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Named related person on SEC Form D filings for Telecom Digital LD DC Share Sales (DC REIT), LLC, LD Acquisition Co 16 LLC, and LD Acquisition Co 20 LLC.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Served as Advisor at 500 Startups from 2018 to 2022, advising early-stage companies on fundraising and product development.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)LinkedIn headline identifies Dan Parsons as an Investor, and his profile describes advising startups on fundraising.
What you likely need
You're at a high-leverage inflection point post-Thoughtful AI exit, and the right Festival events put you in rooms where your serial-founder credibility converts into co-investors, co-founders, and board seats. You need gatherings that help you crystallize your public identity — whether that's founder, investor, or both — before the exit momentum fades. The highest-value moments for you are intimate dinners and roundtables with healthcare AI operators, PE-adjacent investors, and angel syndicate builders who can accelerate your next chapter.
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 dinner for founders who've sold healthcare AI or revenue cycle automation companies to PE firms — including New Mountain, Vista, and Bain Capital portfolio exits — to trade notes on post-acquisition board roles and co-investment deal flow
- fundraisingA roundtable with active AngelList syndicate operators and 500 Startups advisors who've formalized their angel activity post-exit, to pressure-test SPV structures and compare healthcare AI deal flow
- positioningA small working session for founders with 3+ exits crafting their serial-founder pitch narrative — covering how to frame an ORA-to-DRYV-to-Thoughtful AI arc for press, decks, and LP memos
- introsA happy hour connecting founders recently acquired by growth-equity firms like New Mountain Capital with operators open to portfolio advisory and co-investment roles inside PE-backed healthcare and SaaS companies
- tacticalA dinner for post-exit AI founders currently building in stealth or evaluating their next venture, to workshop public positioning signals — LinkedIn framing, open-source credibility plays, and co-founder recruiting optics
- positioningA thesis dinner for investors and operators obsessed with healthcare revenue cycle automation, where Dan can debut a post-exit retrospective on Thoughtful AI and establish himself as the go-to voice in the space
- hiringA roundtable for technical AI founders who've open-sourced internal tools or frameworks post-exit to attract engineering talent, sharing what to release, how to seed GitHub traction, and how to convert stars into founding-team hires
- fundraisingA curated pitch night connecting serial founders with 2+ exits to AI-focused seed funds actively writing first checks into healthcare and automation — structured for warm intros, not cold decks