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Founder45Current founder
61st percentile
Investor57Current investor
87th percentile
Combined
Co-founder of Stellar and Ripple, now building Vast in commercial space
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Portfolio Scale · 88th percentile
- Investing activity spans from at least 2013 to present, approximately 12 years of investing experience.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor by PitchBook and Crunchbase.
- Portfolio exits include Prospectify and Bold Financial Technologies (both acquired).
- Active investments in Socket, Stream Token, Propellon Therapeutics, Velo Labs, and others per PitchBook (7 investments total).
- Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple sources including PitchBook.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia page exists for Jed McCaleb, confirming public notability.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current founder of Vast, Stellar Development Foundation, and Astera Institute.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past founder of Ripple, MetaMachine (eDonkey2000), Mt. Gox, and Code Collective.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Multiple companies co-founded, including Stellar Development Foundation and Ripple.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Science Corp raised $230M per SEC Form D filing, with Jed McCaleb as a named related person.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @jedmccaleb has been active for over 15 years (created 2010).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @jedmccaleb identified as Jed McCaleb's personal account.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Firefly Aerospace Inc. filed an S-1 and now files public 10-K/10-Q reports, confirming an IPO exit for a company Jed McCaleb is a named related person on.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)GitHub account has 14 public non-fork repositories, qualifying as an active builder.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified Hacker News account with multiple mentions in HN threads.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Vast has had at least one prior funding round per LinkedIn company data.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Publicly identified as an angel investor by PitchBook and Crunchbase.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple sources including PitchBook.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Active investments in Socket, Stream Token, Propellon Therapeutics, Velo Labs, and others per PitchBook.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Portfolio exits include Prospectify and Bold Financial Technologies (both acquired).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Investing activity spans from at least 2013 to present, approximately 12 years of investing experience.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point where your track record across crypto, aerospace, and deep tech gives you outsized credibility in rooms most founders can't access — but your investment activity and public positioning haven't kept pace with your actual influence. Festival events that would move the needle most are intimate dinners with institutional space and deep tech investors who can co-invest in Vast, roundtables with other billionaire-founders who've formalized their angel activity into funds or syndicates, and high-signal positioning moments that establish you as a serious AGI voice beyond your Ripple and Stellar legacy.
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 private dinner with institutional deep tech and aerospace investors (think Andreessen Bio, Lux Capital, Founders Fund partners) actively writing checks into orbital infrastructure to explore co-investment into Vast's next round
- fundraisingA roundtable with other high-net-worth serial founders who've formalized their angel activity into named syndicates or funds — like Vitalik Buterin, Naval Ravikant, and Elad Gil — to pressure-test what a McCaleb crypto-aerospace-AI syndicate could look like
- positioningA small dinner with top science and AI journalists (Wired, MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic) and Science Corp's leadership team to build the press relationships that translate Science Corp's $230M raise into the public narrative it needs for talent and future fundraising
- positioningAn intimate salon with researchers and funders at the intersection of neuroscience and AGI — including people from Numenta, Redwood Research, and Arc Institute — where you workshop a public essay or research initiative that establishes you as a serious voice in brain-inspired AI beyond crypto
- introsA dinner connecting Astera Institute with program officers and principals from Open Philanthropy, Wellcome Leap, and Schmidt Futures to find overlapping funding priorities and co-grant opportunities that amplify Astera's reach in high-leverage science
- hiringA Vast-branded recruiting happy hour co-hosted with SpaceX and Rocket Lab alumni networks in LA, where you make a rare personal appearance to activate your name recognition and pull senior aerospace engineers into Vast's 761-person-and-growing team
- tacticalA technical roundtable with active Stellar and open-source crypto infrastructure contributors where you publicly re-engage with the repos and signal continued hands-on technical credibility to the developer community