48th percentile
Cryptographer-turned-founder building agentic dev tools at Forum Ventures
Credibility
Technical Depth · 52th percentile
- Active builder on GitHub with 74 public repos.
- GitHub account @elliemdaw verified via gjalla company link.
- Tenured GitHub account, created in 2014 (~11 years old).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of gjalla, in the Forum Ventures Spring 2026 cohort.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active builder on GitHub with 74 public repos.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @elliemdaw verified via gjalla company link.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Tenured GitHub account, created in 2014 (~11 years old).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past founder of PatentMapr, an LLM-powered platform for patent litigation experts.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Founder of Just Hacking Training-published cryptographer with experience at Cisco, Accenture, and Istari Digital.
What you likely need
You're at a critical inflection point where the next 90 days of Forum Ventures demo season will define gjalla's seed trajectory, so the highest-leverage Festival events put you in the room with dev-tools and AI-engineering investors, design-partner-ready engineering leaders, and technical founders who've already navigated the 'agentic workflow' positioning battle. Secondary wins come from tapping your cryptography and Linux Foundation network for enterprise early adopters and finding a founding engineer who lives at the agent-integration layer.
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 Forum Ventures Spring 2026 cohort founder dinner with GPs from Boldstart, Amplify, and Decibel to pressure-test gjalla's seed pitch ahead of demo day
- fundraisingA seed-stage dev-tools founder roundtable with investors actively writing checks into AI-engineering platforms to workshop the '23% code quality lift' as a wedge narrative
- introsA dinner for security-conscious engineering leaders at enterprises with active Cisco or Linux Foundation vendor relationships, where gjalla's cryptography credibility opens design-partner conversations
- positioningA small roundtable of technical founders who've shipped AI-native developer tooling to sharpen gjalla's positioning against the wave of generic AI code-gen noise
- hiringA happy hour for senior engineers obsessed with agent integrations and developer tooling — the exact founding-engineer profile gjalla needs to stay ahead of the coding-agent wave
- tacticalA build-in-public dinner for technical founders actively open-sourcing CLI tooling and growing developer communities, to pressure-test gjalla-cli's launch strategy and Substack content flywheel
- introsA Linux Foundation Public Health and open-source security alumni happy hour to surface warm intros to enterprise engineering orgs already primed for security-forward AI tooling
- wellbeingA candid dinner for pre-seed and seed founders navigating consulting-versus-startup focus decisions, to get honest peer pressure on fully committing to gjalla before investors ask