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85th percentile
Co-founder and CEO of Givebutter, the profitable $50M-raised platform behind $10B+ in donations
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 88th percentile
- givebutter.com ranks #5,039 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current founder and CEO of Givebutter.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Givebutter raised $50M in a single investment round per TechCrunch reporting.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)givebutter.com ranks #5,039 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Givebutter is publicly confirmed to be profitable as of 2024.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Givebutter has co-founders: Liran Cohen (Co-Founder & CTPO) and Ari K. (Co-Founder).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Happening, LLC (a mobile event discovery app founded in 2014).
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)GitHub account is at least 5 years old (created February 2019).
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)GitHub account identified for Max Friedman (@max-friedman, created 2019).
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point — profitable, scaled, and sitting on $10B in donation volume — which means the right rooms can accelerate your next chapter faster than any ad spend. Festival events that put you in front of growth equity partners, enterprise nonprofit decision-makers, and fellow decade-in founders will be highest-leverage. You also need the occasional off-the-record dinner with other long-tenured founders who understand what year ten actually feels like.
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 growth equity dinner with partners from Vista, Insight, and Spectrum Equity who have written $50M–$200M checks into vertical SaaS platforms, to pressure-test a Series B narrative around Givebutter's $10B donation volume and path to nonprofit operating system
- hiringA hiring roundtable with enterprise sales leaders who have scaled SaaS revenue teams at Blackbaud, Salesforce.org, and Virtuous CRM, focused on recruiting the first VP of Enterprise Sales to crack major nonprofit and foundation accounts
- introsA closed-door dinner brokering warm intros between Givebutter and senior technology and innovation leads from United Way Worldwide, Council on Foundations, and Candid, to accelerate platform adoption across their member networks
- tacticalA product monetization roundtable with founders who successfully layered paid premium tiers onto freemium nonprofit or SMB SaaS products — including alumni from Bloomerang, Kindful, and HubSpot for Startups — to stress-test the Givebutter Plus pricing and packaging strategy
- positioningA Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Impact alumni dinner for founders who have scaled mission-driven platforms past $1B in transaction volume, to collectively position the cohort — and Givebutter specifically — as the definitive infrastructure layer for the nonprofit sector
- positioningA founder storytelling dinner for profitable bootstrapped-to-funded CEOs in vertical SaaS — featuring voices from the Indie.vc and Calm Company Fund communities — where Max shares Givebutter's decade arc to cement his profile as the defining voice in nonprofit tech entrepreneurship
- wellbeingAn intimate off-the-record dinner for founders at the 8–12 year mark of their companies — including alumni from Qualtrics, Calendly, and Mailchimp pre-exit — to candidly discuss identity, burnout, and what intentional renewal looks like when the business is thriving but the founder is running on fumes