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YC W16 co-founder of Podium, which has raised $422M in AI-powered local business comms
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 78th percentile
- podium.com ranks #22,742 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current co-founder of Podium, an AI-powered customer communication platform.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Podium is a Y Combinator Winter 2016 alum.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Podium has raised $422.6M in total funding across 8 rounds.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)podium.com ranks #22,742 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Podium was co-founded with Eric Rea and at least one other co-founder.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Dennis Steele with 46 reputation.
Investor score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of 2 companies including Swipe and Stainless.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Made 2 active investments (Swipe and Stainless) per CBInsights records.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Investing activity traceable to at least 2019, giving approximately 3 years of documented investing experience.
What you likely need
You're a high-credibility operator-founder with a massive customer base and serious capital raised, but your angel identity is still nascent and your public investor presence is minimal — Festival events that put you in rooms with late-stage growth equity investors and YC co-investors will accelerate both. You'll also get outsized value from gatherings that position you as the definitive voice on AI-powered local business communication, where your 100,000-customer data advantage is genuinely rare. Events that connect you with international GTM operators and YC W16 alumni at inflection points will compound your network in exactly the directions Podium needs next.
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 YC W16 alumni co-investment dinner for batch founders now writing angel checks, to swap deal flow and formalize a co-investment syndicate around local business SaaS
- introsA Utah-based angel investor roundtable with other operator-angels from high-growth SaaS companies (Qualtrics, Divvy, Podium alumni) to compare portfolio construction strategies and share warm deal flow
- fundraisingA late-stage founder dinner with GPs from growth equity firms (Iconiq, General Atlantic, Insight Partners) actively deploying into vertical SaaS and AI-enabled SMB platforms for a potential Podium Series D conversation
- positioningA positioning dinner for founders and operators building AI communication tools for local businesses, where you workshop a keynote or byline anchored in Podium's 100,000-customer dataset
- tacticalA roundtable with GTM leaders who've scaled SaaS products across 10+ countries (Atlassian, Xero, HubSpot alumni) to pressure-test Podium's international expansion playbook and surface partnership leads
- positioningA happy hour for operator-angels building their first public investor presence, co-hosted with AngelList, to workshop profile pages, deal memo formats, and inbound funnel strategies like steele.vc
- introsA YC W16 founder dinner for batchmates now at Series B or later inflection points, to trade notes on secondary liquidity, late-stage fundraising, and strategic partnership intros