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57th percentile
2x-exited founder (CloudFactory, Sutherland) now building StaffAI
Credibility
Traction · 80th percentile
- Two exits: SpeakerText acquired by CloudFactory and Augment CXM acquired by Sutherland Global.
- Past founder of SpeakerText and Augment CXM, both of which were acquired.
- Raised $11.1M in venture capital across SpeakerText ($1.1M from Google Ventures, Kapor Capital, and 500 Startups) and Augment CXM ($10M from Jazz Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Data Capital).
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of SpeakerText and Augment CXM, both of which were acquired.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Two exits: SpeakerText acquired by CloudFactory and Augment CXM acquired by Sutherland Global.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder and CEO of StaffAI.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Co-founded multiple companies including SpeakerText and Augment CXM with co-founders.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Raised $11.1M in venture capital across SpeakerText ($1.1M from Google Ventures, Kapor Capital, and 500 Startups) and Augment CXM ($10M from Jazz Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Data Capital).
What you likely need
You're a repeat founder with two exits who needs to move fast on StaffAI's raise before the AI staffing space gets crowded, so the highest-leverage Festival events put you in rooms with seed and Series A investors who specifically back proven operators. You also need to build out a lean GTM team and tap technical networks like Carnegie Mellon Robotics for early engineering hires. Events that let you pressure-test your AI employee ROI narrative in front of enterprise buyers and fellow repeat founders will compound your positioning and inbound pipeline simultaneously.
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 dinner for repeat founders with at least one acquisition exit, designed to surface warm intros to seed and Series A investors who specifically back proven operators — ideal for positioning your SpeakerText→CloudFactory and Augment CXM→Sutherland Global track record as the lead of your StaffAI raise
- introsA happy hour with Jazz Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Data Capital portfolio founders and partners to re-engage your existing relationships from the Augment CXM raise and open a first-check conversation for StaffAI
- tacticalA roundtable with mid-market enterprise operators and Silicon Valley Software Group network members to pressure-test StaffAI's AI employee ROI model and convert early pilot interest into referenceable proof-of-concept customers
- hiringA Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute alumni dinner in the Bay Area to surface technical co-founder candidates and senior engineering hires who can scale StaffAI's AI staffing infrastructure beyond its current 4-person team
- hiringA roundtable with early-stage AI startup operators who recently hired their first head of sales or GTM lead, focused on sourcing and evaluating candidates who can take an AI staffing product from pilot to repeatable revenue
- tacticalA dinner for VentureBeat contributors and Coruzant podcast alumni to co-develop a data-driven AI employee ROI case study and turn each other's audiences into inbound pipeline for enterprise AI products like StaffAI
- positioningA small workshop for serial founders actively raising on an AI thesis to sharpen how they lead with prior exits in pitch materials — directly useful for making your two acquisitions the centerpiece of every StaffAI investor conversation