Founder Festival: Jonathan Downey's Profile

Welcome, Jonathan Downey

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Founder46

62nd percentile

Investor205

99th percentile

Combined

#49 on Leaderboard

YC W13 founder of Airware, now building Woven and angel-investing in 50+ startups

• Professional:YC W13 Serial Founder Acquired Raised $100M+Angel Investor Seed Focus

• Industries:Robotics Enterprise Software Developer Tools HR Tech AI / ML

Credibility

this founder typical investor (50th pct)

Portfolio Scale · 98th percentile

Made more than 50 active startup investments including Observe.AI, Dedrone, Verge Genomics, and others.
Portfolio company Connectifier was acquired by LinkedIn in a reported deal of approximately $100M.
Publicly identified as an angel investor in more than 50 startups.
Served as General Partner of Airware's Commercial Drone Fund, a dedicated investment vehicle.
Portfolio company Dedrone was acquired by Axon (acquisition value undisclosed).

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Founder score

99%Y Combinator W13 alum via Airware.
95%Past founder of Airware and Candidate Labs.
95%woven.com ranks #902,413 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
90%Current Founder, CEO, and Head of Product at Woven.
90%Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Jonathan Downey as CEO of Airware.
88%Named to MIT Technology Review's '35 Innovators Under 35' list.
85%Raised $100M total across founded companies including Airware.
85%Named USA Today's 'Small-Business Innovator of the Year'.

Investor score

95%Publicly identified as an angel investor in more than 50 startups.
90%Made more than 50 active startup investments including Observe.AI, Dedrone, Verge Genomics, and others.
88%Served as General Partner of Airware's Commercial Drone Fund, a dedicated investment vehicle.
82%Three portfolio companies reached unicorn valuations (over $1B each) while still private.
75%Approximately 10 years of investing experience, with the Commercial Drone Fund launched around 2015.
72%Portfolio company Connectifier was acquired by LinkedIn in a reported deal of approximately $100M.
68%Portfolio company Dedrone was acquired by Axon (acquisition value undisclosed).

What you likely need

As a YC W13 founder now building Woven and actively angel-investing in 50+ companies, you'd benefit most from events that sharpen your fundraising narrative for Woven's next round and deepen your deal flow network. Connecting with other serial YC founders and drone/enterprise-tech operators would also surface warm co-investor relationships and potential hires.

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 YC W13/W14 founder dinner to swap notes on second-company fundraising and warm intros to seed/Series A funds.
introsAn angel syndicate roundtable with other prolific 50+ deal angels to share deal flow and co-investment opportunities in enterprise AI.
hiringA drone and enterprise-tech founder alumni happy hour to reconnect with the Airware/Commercial Drone Fund network for Woven hiring leads.
introsAn MIT TR35 honoree dinner to build relationships with other recognized deep-tech innovators who could become Woven advisors or investors.
tacticalA product-led growth workshop for founder-CEOs who are also Head of Product, focused on enterprise SaaS go-to-market playbooks.
positioningA positioning session for serial founders whose previous company shut down, focused on narrative-crafting for the next venture.
introsA GP/angel dinner for investors with unicorn-backed portfolios to discuss follow-on strategy and emerging fund structures.