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26th percentile
Airplane co-founder and ex-Benchling CTO now engineering at Cursor
Credibility
Traction · 27th percentile
- Airplane raised $72.5M in total funding across 4 rounds.
- Airplane was acquired by Airtable in 2024 (acquisition price undisclosed).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of Airplane, a developer platform for internal tools.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)airplane.dev ranks #641,185 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Airplane was co-founded with Ravi Parikh, confirming the company had co-founders.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Previously served as CTO at Benchling for nearly 7 years before founding Airplane.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Airplane was acquired by Airtable in 2024 (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Airplane raised $72.5M in total funding across 4 rounds.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point — fresh off the Airplane exit and now inside Cursor, the hottest AI coding tool on the market, which makes you one of the most credible technical voices in the developer tools space. The Festival events most valuable to you right now are small, high-trust dinners and roundtables where you can quietly explore your next chapter, build your angel investing pipeline, and start shaping your public technical identity before you leave your current perch. The window to leverage your Cursor insider access and Airplane founder story is open now — these gatherings are designed to help you use it intentionally.
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 seed-stage fundraising dinner for technical founders with prior exits (Airplane, Replit, Codeium-tier) where you can quietly signal you're exploring a next company and get warm intros to AI-focused seed funds like Conviction, Abstract, and Essence
- positioningA small founder roundtable on acqui-hire and acquisition stories — alongside founders who've sold to Notion, Linear, or Figma — to help you publicly document and pressure-test the Airplane → Airtable narrative before turning it into a post or talk
- introsAn angel investing dinner with early-check operators-turned-investors from the AI developer tools ecosystem (ex-Replit, Sourcegraph, GitHub Copilot) to sharpen your investment thesis and start building a co-investor network for your first Benchling/Airplane/Cursor-informed bets
- introsA Cursor ecosystem happy hour with founders and researchers building adjacent to AI coding tools — think AI test generation, code review, and IDE infra — while you still have insider access and can make high-signal introductions that compound for years
- positioningA tactical workshop-dinner for technical founders launching AI-native newsletters or build-in-public writing practices — alongside voices like Lenny's-tier operator-writers — to help you structure your Head of AI at Airtable and Cursor perspective into a recurring publication
- tacticalA build-in-public night with high-GitHub-karma AI infra engineers and OSS-first founders (think Replicate, Modal, or Ollama orbit) to pressure-test and soft-launch an open-source tool from your internal Cursor or Airtable work and finally make your GitHub public-facing
- wellbeingAn intimate half-day offsite for founders who've recently exited or are mid-operator-stint (Airplane, Brex, Scale alumni tier) to reflect on what kind of work actually energizes them before committing to a next company, fundraise, or deeper operator role
- introsAn MIT Course 6 and Benchling alumni founder dinner to reconnect with your earliest technical network, surface potential co-founders or angel LPs, and quietly explore who from that cohort is building in AI infra or developer tools right now