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58th percentile
YC founder who sold Bear Flag Robotics to John Deere for $250M
Credibility
Traction · 73th percentile
- Bear Flag Robotics was acquired by John Deere for $250M.
- Past founder of Bear Flag Robotics (acquired by John Deere) and CKH Marketing.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator W18 alum via Bear Flag Robotics.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past founder of Bear Flag Robotics (acquired by John Deere) and CKH Marketing.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Bear Flag Robotics was co-founded with Aubrey Donnellan.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Bear Flag Robotics was acquired by John Deere for $250M.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account identified for Igino Cafiero (@igino-cafiero).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account is at least 7 years old (created 2018).
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Advisor at Fortitude Ventures, assisting in sourcing and diligence for an early-stage VC firm.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Partner / Principal (Advisor) at Fortitude Ventures, a recognized early-stage VC firm.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point post-exit where the right rooms can accelerate your decision between founding again and formalizing your investing practice. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are small, high-trust dinners with fellow post-exit founders navigating the same found-vs-invest tension, and sharp roundtables where your agricultural autonomy expertise makes you the most credible person in the room. You'll get the most out of gatherings that surface co-founder candidates, agtech LP introductions, and peer pressure-testing of your next thesis before you publicly commit to a direction.
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.
- positioningA post-exit founder dinner for robotics and autonomy founders who've sold to strategic acquirers (Deere, CNH, AGCO) to pressure-test open thesis ideas in agricultural autonomy before committing to a second company
- introsA YC W18 alumni dinner to re-engage your batch for co-founder sourcing, warm deal flow introductions, and honest peer counsel on the found-again vs. formalize-investing decision
- fundraisingA small roundtable for operator-turned-investors considering a GP or EIR formalization at an early-stage fund, alongside peers from Initialized, Pear, and Bee Partners who made the same transition from deep technical operator roles
- fundraisingA Wharton MBA alumni happy hour with family office principals and endowment allocators to surface institutional LP interest in a dedicated agtech and robotics fund anchored by your Bear Flag exit credibility
- hiringA co-founder mixer for post-Series A robotics and agtech engineers and technical operators looking for their next founding role, specifically sourcing candidates with field robotics or embedded systems backgrounds relevant to agricultural autonomy
- introsA dinner for founders who've gone through strategic acquisitions by industrial giants (Deere, Caterpillar, Trimble, Honeywell) to share playbooks on leveraging acquirer relationships for customer commitments and strategic partnerships on a second venture
- wellbeingAn intimate roundtable for post-exit founders currently on sabbatical or in the deliberate pause between companies to build a concrete re-entry decision framework and avoid the open-ended drift that erodes momentum
- positioningA tactical workshop for technical founders-turned-investors on publishing long-form positioning content — modeled on pieces by Delian Asparouhov and Immad Akhund — to compound visibility for both LP fundraising and deal flow before formally announcing a fund