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Serial food-tech founder, Zip2 co-founder, and angel investor backing unicorns
Credibility
Experience · 98th percentile
- Investing career began around 2002 per Tracxn, giving approximately 23 years of investing experience (capped at 15 years for scoring).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia page exists for Kimbal Musk — confirmed notable public figure.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current Co-Founder & CEO of Nova Sky Stories, the world's leading drone entertainment platform.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past founder of Zip2, The Kitchen Restaurant Group, Big Green, and Square Roots Urban Growers.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Zip2 was acquired by Compaq for $307M.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)5,211 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Kimbal Musk as a businessman and restaurateur.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Multiple founded companies had co-founders, including Hugo Matheson at The Kitchen and Tobias Peggs at Square Roots.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wikipedia page averages ~40,247 views/month — a widely-known public figure.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Featured in Fortune and profiled by TechCrunch and VentureBeat — dedicated coverage of his food and farming ventures demonstrating GTM and distribution reach.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Top YouTube video 'Unbelievable Drone Show Over the Vatican' has 595,833 views — strong thought-leadership reach.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Square Roots Urban Growers raised $90.5M in total funding across 5 rounds.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Named 2017 Most Creative People in Business and 2017 Social Entrepreneur of the Year — recognized for entrepreneurial domain expertise in food and sustainability.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple sources including PitchBook and CBInsights.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Portfolio includes Owner and Upside Foods, both unicorn companies (private valuations above $1B).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has made at least 17 active investments per PitchBook investor profile.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio company Tock was acquired (acquisition value undisclosed).
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Investing career began around 2002 per Tracxn, giving approximately 23 years of investing experience (capped at 15 years for scoring).
What you likely need
As a serial founder currently building Nova Sky Stories and a seasoned angel investor with unicorn-backed portfolio companies, you'd benefit most from events that connect you with late-seed and Series A founders in food tech, agtech, and live-experience technology. Your board-level relationships at Tesla and SpaceX and your track record from Zip2 through Square Roots make you a compelling voice at founder roundtables focused on mission-driven scaling and sustainable business models. Events that bridge your investing activity with your operator experience — particularly around food systems, climate, and experiential tech — would be the highest-leverage use of your time.
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.
- introsA founder dinner for food-tech and agtech CEOs raising Series A/B rounds, to share go-to-market playbooks from The Kitchen and Square Roots.
- tacticalAn angel investor roundtable with other backers of Owner and Upside Foods to pressure-test the next wave of food-system unicorn theses.
- hiringA hiring happy hour targeting drone engineers and creative technologists to scale Nova Sky Stories' live-show production capacity.
- positioningA positioning workshop for mission-driven founders on translating sustainability credentials into premium brand equity and enterprise partnerships.
- introsA board-member networking dinner with other Tesla and SpaceX board alumni to surface co-investment and strategic partnership opportunities.
- fundraisingA fundraising office hours session with climate-tech and experiential-entertainment VCs to support Nova Sky Stories' next capital raise.
- introsA World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur alumni dinner to exchange notes on scaling nonprofit impact alongside for-profit ventures.