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69th percentile
Inventor-founder of DEKA and FIRST, pioneering medical devices and STEM education
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder of DEKA Research & Development, founded in 1982 and still active today.
- Current founder of FIRST, the nonprofit robotics and STEM education organization he founded in 1989.
- Past founder of Segway Inc., which he founded in 1999.
- DEKA Research & Development and Segway Inc. both had co-founders or founding teams.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder of DEKA Research & Development, founded in 1982 and still active today.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia entity exists for Dean Kamen, confirming notable public profile.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current founder of FIRST, the nonprofit robotics and STEM education organization he founded in 1989.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past founder of Segway Inc., which he founded in 1999.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)dekaresearch.com ranks #322,588 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Segway Inc. was acquired across multiple transactions totaling approximately $80M (Ninebot acquisition).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)DEKA Research & Development and Segway Inc. both had co-founders or founding teams.
What you likely need
You're a category-defining inventor-founder whose biggest leverage points right now are commercializing DEKA's medical device pipeline, securing non-federal capital for biotech moonshots, and locking in FIRST's global legacy before you step back. The Festival events most valuable to you are intimate, high-trust rooms with medtech commercialization operators, sovereign and family office capital allocators, and mission-driven media makers who can amplify the FIRST story at scale.
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.
- tacticalA medtech commercialization dinner with Sequel Med Tech-adjacent operators and diabetes device founders (including Dexcom and Insulet alumni) to pressure-test go-to-market sequencing and FDA milestone framing for the twiist AID system
- fundraisingA private roundtable with family offices and sovereign health funds (Bezos Expeditions, Wellcome Leap, Emerson Collective) actively writing checks into organ manufacturing and biotech infrastructure to structure non-federal capital for DEKA's pipeline
- tacticalA medical device IP deal-flow dinner with early-stage medtech founders and patent-forward acqui-hire veterans to replicate the Diatech Diabetes playbook and surface the next pipeline acquisition targets
- hiringA FIRST global expansion roundtable with education ministers, Google.org and Microsoft Philanthropies program leads, and regional tech CEOs from FIRST's underrepresented markets to unlock government co-investment in the 62+ country footprint
- positioningA founders-and-funders dinner on nonprofit governance and conflict-of-interest best practices with leaders who have navigated public funding scrutiny (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Schmidt Futures) to sharpen ARMI's disclosure and audit strategy
- positioningA documentary and legacy storytelling dinner with mission-driven producers and STEM philanthropists (Ken Burns studio alumni, Participant Media, Gates Foundation media team) to develop a flagship film or book cementing the FIRST and DEKA story for the next generation
- wellbeingA founder succession roundtable with long-tenured founder-CEOs who have formalized leadership transitions at mission-driven orgs (Patagonia, Berkshire, IDEO) to build a concrete succession and leadership development framework across DEKA and FIRST