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85th percentile
52nd percentile
YC S14 co-founder and CEO who built ShipBob into a SoftBank-backed unicorn
Credibility
Traction · 80th percentile
- ShipBob is a YC unicorn backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, valued at over $1B (Series E).
- ShipBob has raised $334.6M in total funding across 9 rounds, per SEC Form D and LinkedIn data.
Relationship Matrix
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of ShipBob, Inc., actively leading the company since 2014.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)ShipBob is a Y Combinator Summer 2014 alum.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)ShipBob was co-founded by Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati (and others), confirming co-founders.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)shipbob.com ranks #27,724 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)ShipBob has raised $334.6M in total funding across 9 rounds, per SEC Form D and LinkedIn data.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)ShipBob is a YC unicorn backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, valued at over $1B (Series E).
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Dhruv Saxena with 1,346 reputation.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 19 and 1,691 citations.
Investor score
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Grounded facts confirm investments in AquAgri, The Global Green Company, and mPokket.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal inflection point where ShipBob's scale and unicorn status open doors to IPO-track conversations, institutional investor positioning, and serious thought leadership in logistics-tech. The most valuable Festival events for you are intimate dinners and roundtables with pre-IPO CFOs, bulge-bracket bankers, and YC S14 alumni who've navigated late-stage liquidity — plus forums where your operational depth at 17-country scale becomes the draw, not just the credential. You'd also benefit from structured angel and syndicate conversations with YC GPs who can fold you into their emerging logistics and supply-chain deal flow.
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.
- hiringA pre-IPO founder dinner for logistics-tech and supply-chain unicorn CEOs who've recently hired a public-company-ready CFO or CRO, to share playbooks on leadership bench-building and governance readiness
- fundraisingA closed-door roundtable with Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and BofA tech-IPO bankers alongside $200M+ ARR SaaS and logistics founders to pressure-test IPO readiness timelines and pre-IPO narrative framing
- introsA YC S14 unicorn founder dinner for alumni who've crossed the $200M ARR threshold, focused on re-engaging YC GP and partner relationships as reference LPs or co-investors in emerging YC logistics and supply-chain startups
- positioningA logistics-tech thought leadership dinner with supply-chain editors from WSJ, Forbes, and FreightWaves alongside 3-4 enterprise brand CMOs, where ShipBob's De Minimis Defense Program and tariff-era fulfillment strategy anchors the conversation
- tacticalA trade-policy happy hour with DC-connected logistics lobbyists, NCTO members, and e-commerce policy leads at Amazon and Shopify to amplify ShipBob's De Minimis Defense Program through the right institutional and press channels
- fundraisingA structured angel-to-syndicate dinner with Angelist GPs and operators-turned-investors who've formalized early check activity in emerging markets — directly relevant to Dhruv's AquAgri, mPokket, and Global Green portfolio — to build a co-investment vehicle and increase deal flow
- positioningA pre-IPO narrative workshop with 4-5 institutional growth investors from Tiger, Coatue, and D1 Capital alongside a logistics-tech IR advisor, to stress-test ShipBob's public-markets growth story on unit economics and global expansion transparency
- introsA YC GP and S14 alumni office-hours session pairing unicorn-status S14 founders with current YC partners actively backing logistics, supply-chain, and cross-border commerce startups, to formalize co-investor and reference LP relationships