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51st percentile
2x-exited founder (Microsoft, SIMBA Chain) now building stealth AI software
Credibility
Traction · 73th percentile
- Exit: Chalkup was acquired by Microsoft.
- Exit: StrongSalt was acquired by SIMBA Chain.
Relationship Matrix
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Current co-founder of a stealth-stage AI software company (Stealth, via Rippin Engine).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past founder of DeepUnit, a human-out-of-the-loop unit testing agent startup.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Co-founded at least one company (Stealth) with a co-founder.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Exit: Chalkup was acquired by Microsoft.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Exit: StrongSalt was acquired by SIMBA Chain.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Justin Strong with 1 reputation.
Investor score
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Made at least two active investments: Strong Compute and StrongDM.
What you likely need
You're a repeat founder with two real exits who is currently flying under the radar, and the right Festival events will help you convert that quiet credibility into warm capital and co-founder relationships. Dinners and roundtables that put you in the room with AI-focused micro-VCs, repeat-founder networks, and enterprise GTM operators will do the most work for you right now. Your strongest lever is getting your acquisition track record in front of people who can act on it — Festival is a shortcut to exactly those rooms.
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 pre-seed dinner for repeat founders with prior acquisitions, where AI-focused micro-VCs and angels who specifically back second- and third-time founders can evaluate your Chalkup-to-Microsoft and StrongSalt-to-SIMBA Chain track record against your current stealth build
- tacticalA YC-alumni roundtable for repeat founders preparing to apply with AI-native ventures, to pressure-test your application narrative and get warm intros to YC partners who prioritize engineering-heavy founders with prior exit proof points
- positioningA happy hour for AI dev-tools and developer-infrastructure founders who have open-sourced core components, to swap strategies on using GitHub traction and HN launches to build inbound credibility before a public fundraise
- introsA portfolio-founder dinner anchored around the Strong Compute and StrongDM networks, designed to surface warm introductions from fellow founders and operators in those ecosystems to enterprise AI customers and seed-stage investors relevant to your current build
- tacticalA small tactical workshop for stealth AI founders ready to come out of stealth, focused on crafting a public narrative — landing page copy, waitlist positioning, and a one-pager — that turns a prior acquisition track record into investor signal before a formal seed process
- hiringA co-founder matching mixer for technical AI founders seeking a GTM or enterprise-sales-focused co-founder, drawing from operators with B2B SaaS and enterprise AI sales backgrounds who can balance a deeply technical founding team
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with three to five AI-focused micro-VCs who have a stated thesis around repeat founders and developer-tooling infrastructure, giving you a structured setting to introduce your acquisition history and current AI-native product direction
- positioningA build-in-public dinner for technical founders who have had acquisitions but maintain a low public profile, focused on translating exit credibility into LinkedIn content, blog posts, and public positioning that makes you discoverable to investors evaluating your next raise