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Salesforce-acquired founder now building Hotbox, an AI platform for social-first sales
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Operator · 57th percentile
- Current Founder and CEO of Hotbox, an AI platform for social-first sales.
- Past co-founder of newsworthy.ml, an AI-powered news bias detection platform.
- Hotbox and newsworthy.ml both had co-founders, confirming collaborative founding experience.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Founder and CEO of Hotbox, an AI platform for social-first sales.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past co-founder of newsworthy.ml, an AI-powered news bias detection platform.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Was part of the founding team at Respell, which was acquired by Salesforce (acquisition price undisclosed; floored to minimum).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Hotbox and newsworthy.ml both had co-founders, confirming collaborative founding experience.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Currently works at Hotbox, whose parent domain lnkd.in is ranked #454 in the Majestic Million.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal inflection point — fresh a16z speedrun backing, a Salesforce acquisition on your resume, and a product targeting a real gap in Instagram DMs CRM. The Festival events most valuable to you right now are intimate fundraising dinners with micro-VCs who write early checks into AI sales tools, tactical roundtables with founders who've cracked SMB GTM on social platforms, and positioning sessions where your NeurIPS-level ML credibility can visibly differentiate Hotbox from no-code competitors.
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.
- fundraisingAn a16z Speedrun cohort founder dinner with angels and micro-VCs actively writing $500K–$2M checks into AI sales tools, to convert accelerator momentum into a structured seed round
- fundraisingA micro-VC roundtable with funds like Pear, Hustle Fund, and Precursor who back AI-native GTM tools at pre-seed and seed, where Hotbox's Respell-to-Salesforce acquisition story anchors your credibility pitch
- hiringA happy hour for GTM operators who've sold SaaS or CRM tools to SMBs through Instagram and TikTok channels, to recruit Hotbox's first growth or sales hire
- tacticalA dinner with e-commerce brand founders running 10–50K Instagram follower accounts to pressure-test Hotbox's ICP assumptions and lock in two or three design partners from a single vertical
- introsAn a16z portfolio founder mixer focused on companies selling through social channels — Whatnot, Firework, or similar — to surface warm design partner and early customer intros brokered by Speedrun partners
- positioningA dinner for NeurIPS-published and top ML-credentialed founders who are now building applied AI products, to workshop how to translate academic signal like LinkedIn ranking algorithm research into differentiated public positioning on LinkedIn and X
- positioningA roundtable for founders who've had acqui-hire or acquisition exits to Salesforce, HubSpot, or similar CRM incumbents and are now raising a seed round, to sharpen how Harpriya frames the Respell story as a trust signal rather than a distraction
- positioningA small workshop with B2B founders and a few tech journalists who cover AI sales tooling, to pressure-test and amplify Hotbox's first pipeline case study before pitching it as inbound and press bait