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YC W17Serial FounderUnicorn FounderRaised $500M+500+ Employees
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Operator · 84th percentile
- Current co-founder and Executive Chairman at depthfirst, an AI-powered cybersecurity startup.
- Faire is a Y Combinator Winter 2017 company, making Daniele Perito a YC alum.
- Past co-founder of Faire, the global wholesale marketplace, where he served as Chief Data Officer.
- Faire was co-founded with multiple co-founders, including other early Square product and engineering leads.
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Faire raised $596.2M in total venture capital per SEC Form D filings, where Daniele Perito is a named related person.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Faire is a Y Combinator Winter 2017 company, making Daniele Perito a YC alum.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and Executive Chairman at depthfirst, an AI-powered cybersecurity startup.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past co-founder of Faire, the global wholesale marketplace, where he served as Chief Data Officer.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Faire was co-founded with multiple co-founders, including other early Square product and engineering leads.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Faire has a Wikidata-equivalent public notability footprint and is valued at $1.6B+ (unicorn), confirming Daniele Perito as a unicorn founder.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)OpenAlex identifies Daniele Perito as a researcher with 27 published works in security and computing.
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What you likely need
Daniele Perito is a high-signal serial founder with a unicorn exit (Faire, $1.6B+) and a freshly funded Series A company (depthfirst, $40M from Accel). His immediate priority is scaling depthfirst from its early-stage team of 26 into a category-defining AI security company, while leveraging his deep YC and Square network to accelerate hiring and enterprise sales.
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- hiringRecruit a VP of Engineering and Head of Sales with enterprise security experience to scale depthfirst beyond its current 26-person team before the Series A capital is deployed.
- introsTap the YC W17 alumni network and YC's enterprise customer introductions program to land early design-partner contracts for depthfirst's General Security Intelligence platform.
- introsUse your ongoing Faire advisor role to build warm introductions to Faire's enterprise retail customers who may need AI-powered third-party risk monitoring — a natural depthfirst use case.
- fundraisingBegin building Series B relationships now with Accel's growth team and co-investors (SV Angel, Mantis VC) while depthfirst's ARR is still early, so you control the timing of the next raise.
- positioningPublish depthfirst's technical findings on AI-powered vulnerability detection as open research or blog posts to build category authority and attract top security researchers to the team.
- positioningAmplify your Ph.D. and published research credentials (h-index 14, 1,284 citations) in public talks and press to differentiate depthfirst as research-led in a crowded AI security market.
- wellbeingEstablish clear role boundaries and equity vesting milestones with co-founder Andrea Michi early, given depthfirst is only months old and the Series A pressure will intensify quickly.