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Founder45Current founder
61st percentile
Investor36Current investor
77th percentile
Combined
Emmy-nominated creator and CEO of HOORAE with two IPO-exit angel investments
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of HOORAE, a multi-faceted entertainment media company she founded in 2020.
- Past founder of Issa Rae Productions, which she ran as CEO from 2012 to 2020 before rebranding as HOORAE.
- Co-founded ColorCreative, a management and production company, which has secured investment from HarbourView Equity Partners and doubled its revenue from 2023 to 2024.
- Founded Raedio, a music and audio company, in October 2019, currently operating under the HOORAE umbrella.
- Any of her companies had co-founders — ColorCreative was co-founded with a partner.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of HOORAE, a multi-faceted entertainment media company she founded in 2020.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Co-founded ColorCreative, a management and production company, which has secured investment from HarbourView Equity Partners and doubled its revenue from 2023 to 2024.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Issa Rae Productions, which she ran as CEO from 2012 to 2020 before rebranding as HOORAE.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Founded Raedio, a music and audio company, in October 2019, currently operating under the HOORAE umbrella.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Any of her companies had co-founders — ColorCreative was co-founded with a partner.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)ColorCreative secured a significant strategic investment from HarbourView Equity Partners, with the company doubling revenue and pursuing global expansion — indicating a profitable, revenue-generating operation.
- 20%Probability of being accurate (20%)The GitHub account linked from her LinkedIn profile (@Issarae) is identified, though it belongs to a different individual (Israel Ngombo) — no GitHub points awarded for the subject.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with documented startup investments across technology, media, entertainment, and sports sectors.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Has made at least 6 active investments per CB Insights, including San Diego FC.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Portfolio includes two IPO exits: Life360 and Lyft, both of which went public.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that help you formalize your investor identity — think intimate dinners with emerging micro-VC founders and syndicate operators who can show you exactly how to structure your first fund. You'd also benefit from rooms that bridge your entertainment brand with tech deal flow, particularly where Stanford alumni, AI founders, and media-native investors overlap. Tactical roundtables on music licensing, international content distribution, and HOORAE's growth financing would give you the operational clarity to move faster on your biggest near-term bets.
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 micro-VC and syndicate operator dinner with founders-turned-fund-managers (Precursor, Hustle Fund, Overlooked Ventures) to pressure-test the structure and LP pitch for your first formal fund built on top of your 6 tracked angel investments
- introsA Stanford alumni founder roundtable with AI and deep tech builders from recent GSB and engineering cohorts where your HOORAE and ColorCreative distribution reach becomes the unique value-add that opens warm deal flow
- tacticalA HarbourView-backed content partnership dinner with international streaming and distribution executives from markets like Nigeria, the UK, and Brazil where Black storytelling is systemically underrepresented and ColorCreative's catalog has untapped licensing upside
- fundraisingA happy hour with media-focused growth equity investors (Andreessen a16z cultural leadership, Chernin Group, Smash Capital) to explore a formal HOORAE fundraising round anchored by its 15.4% YoY employee growth and diversified revenue base
- positioningA small positioning workshop with founder-investors who have published high-signal portfolio pages and public theses (Paige Finn Doherty, Mac Conwell, Arlan Hamilton) to help you draft and pressure-test a public investment thesis that attracts inbound deal flow in tech, media, and sports
- tacticalA Raedio sync and licensing roundtable with music supervisors, brand partnership leads, and catalog licensing attorneys to map recurring revenue structures that reduce HOORAE's dependence on project-based income
- introsAn intimate office hours session pairing you with operators and investors who have scaled portfolio companies to unicorn outcomes, focused on where your highest-growth portfolio companies need hands-on network activation to accelerate their trajectory