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Founder110Past founder
89th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
CTO of AI at SAP with h-index 20 and two prior co-founded startups
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Domain Expertise · 98th percentile
- Published technical speaker at Munich Management Colloquium and AAAI-21 KDF workshop, with a personal research blog at hoffart.ai covering VLDB 2025 and AI topics.
- Deep research credibility: h-index 20, 3,868 citations (OpenAlex).
- Identified researcher on OpenAlex with h-index 20 and 3,868 citations across 61 works.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)sap.com ranks #633 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past co-founder of Ambiverse and nudge:nudge.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Identified GitHub account @hoffart confirmed by name match and website link.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account created in 2011, making it over 13 years old.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Both Ambiverse and nudge:nudge had co-founders.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Deep research credibility: h-index 20, 3,868 citations (OpenAlex).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Identified researcher on OpenAlex with h-index 20 and 3,868 citations across 61 works.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Published technical speaker at Munich Management Colloquium and AAAI-21 KDF workshop, with a personal research blog at hoffart.ai covering VLDB 2025 and AI topics.
What you likely need
You're a deeply technical AI founder-in-waiting with a strong research pedigree and senior operator credibility at SAP, but you need to close the gap between academic/corporate AI work and the founder-investor world. The most valuable Festival events for you are small, high-trust gatherings where you can road-test a future spinout thesis with deep-tech VCs, find a technical co-founder from the PhD talent pipeline, and build an angel investing track record that signals you're re-entering the arena. You'll get the most from rooms where NLP/knowledge-graph depth is a differentiator, not a footnote.
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 deep-tech VC dinner with investors from funds like Coatue, Radical Ventures, and AIX Ventures where you can pressure-test a tabular foundation models or enterprise knowledge-graph spinout thesis and begin building the investor relationships you'll need before you formally fundraise
- introsA roundtable for senior operators-turned-angels from SAP, Goldman Sachs, and similar enterprise tech networks who are making their first or second angel checks into early-stage AI/NLP startups, so you can formalize your investing posture and build a co-investment track record
- hiringA co-founder matchmaking dinner specifically for senior AI researchers and PhD-level engineers coming out of AAAI, VLDB, and top NLP labs who are exploring their first or second venture, where you can identify a potential technical co-founder for an enterprise knowledge-graph or foundation model spinout
- positioningA build-in-public founders dinner for AI practitioners who have wound down or pivoted a previous venture — modeled on the candid post-mortem culture of SPC and On Deck — where you can workshop and pressure-test a public lessons-learned narrative about Ambiverse and nudge:nudge before publishing it
- positioningA speaker prep and positioning roundtable for technical founders who are expanding their conference presence from research venues like NeurIPS and AAAI into founder-facing stages like SaaStr and NeurIPS Entrepreneurship, helping you reframe your SAP Foundation Model work as a practitioner-founder story rather than a corporate research story
- tacticalA roundtable for AI executives and researchers who are actively managing university collaboration pipelines — from Stanford HAI, CMU, and ETH Zürich — to swap playbooks on formalizing named research partnership programs that can credibly seed a future spinout
- hiringA dinner for serial founders and senior AI leaders who have used corporate PhD intern pipelines — at SAP, Google DeepMind, or Microsoft Research — to identify and convert exceptional researchers into early startup hires or co-founders, so you can sharpen your approach to spotting co-founder candidates through your existing SAP intern program
- tacticalA happy hour for AI practitioners relaunching dormant GitHub presences by open-sourcing tools from enterprise or research work — including founders who have successfully spun out demos from corporate foundation model or knowledge-graph projects — where you can get tactical advice on scoping and shipping a first public release from your SAP work