Founder Festival: Daniele Perito's Profile

Welcome, Daniele Perito

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84th percentile

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#282 on Leaderboard

Faire co-founder and YC alum now building AI security startup depthfirst

• Professional:YC W17 Serial Founder Unicorn Founder Raised $1B+500+ Employees

• Industries:Security Marketplace Developer Tools AI / ML

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Operator · 90th percentile

Current co-founder and Executive Chairman of depthfirst, an AI-native security platform.
Faire is a Y Combinator Winter 2017 company, co-founded by Daniele Perito.
Past co-founder and Chief Data Officer of Faire, now serving as Advisor & Co-Founder.
Faire was co-founded with multiple co-founders from the early Square team.

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97%Faire is a Y Combinator Winter 2017 company, co-founded by Daniele Perito.
95%Current co-founder and Executive Chairman of depthfirst, an AI-native security platform.
95%depthfirst.com ranks #327,360 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
95%Past co-founder and Chief Data Officer of Faire, now serving as Advisor & Co-Founder.
95%5,079 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
90%Deep domain expertise in cybersecurity and software security, evidenced by a Ph.D in Computer Science, postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley, and a career spanning security engineering at Square/Cash App and founding two security-focused ventures.
90%depthfirst raised a $40M Series A led by Accel in January 2025, with total funding of $40M.
88%Faire last raised at a valuation implied by its $596.2M SEC Form D offering (total funding $1.7B across 12 rounds), a still-private company.
85%Faire was co-founded with multiple co-founders from the early Square team.
75%OpenAlex identifies Daniele Perito as a researcher with an h-index of 14 and 1,284 citations across 27 works in security and computing.
72%Featured on the Uncapped podcast with Jack Altman discussing depthfirst — a notable thought-leadership appearance.
65%YouTube interview 'The Future of AI Software Security | Ep. 39' has approximately 2,395 views — thought-leadership reach.
40%Identified as a Stack Overflow account holder.

What you likely need

You're a serial technical founder with a unicorn-scale exit in wholesale commerce (Faire) and a freshly funded AI security startup (depthfirst). The highest-leverage events for you right now are those that accelerate depthfirst's Series A momentum — connecting you with enterprise security buyers, top engineering talent, and investors who can lead your next round. Your YC W17 network and deep security research background make you a natural anchor for technical founder roundtables.

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 YC W17 founder dinner to trade notes on scaling from seed to Series B and warm intros to enterprise-focused growth investors.
tacticalA closed-door roundtable with CISOs and security engineering leaders to pressure-test depthfirst's product roadmap and surface enterprise design partners.
introsAn Accel portfolio happy hour to build warm relationships with other Series A founders and identify co-sell or integration partners for depthfirst.
hiringA Faire alumni dinner to recruit senior engineers and data scientists who already understand marketplace-scale infrastructure for depthfirst.
positioningA positioning workshop for technical founders in AI security to sharpen depthfirst's narrative against incumbent SAST/DAST vendors ahead of Series B.
hiringA Square/Cash App alumni networking night to tap former colleagues for senior hires and warm intros to fintech and enterprise security buyers.
wellbeingAn intimate dinner for serial founders navigating the transition from a large-company advisory role back into the intensity of an early-stage startup.