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87th percentile
3x-exited YC founder (Yahoo, Gartner) now building AI research copilot Gather
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Gather (BeHeard Labs), an AI research copilot for CMOs.
- Pulse Q&A is a Y Combinator Winter 2018 alum.
- Past founder of Cooliris, Pulse Q&A, Bleat Inc, and Ambient Technologies.
- Multiple companies co-founded, including Gather, Pulse Q&A, and Cooliris.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of Gather (BeHeard Labs), an AI research copilot for CMOs.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Exit: Pulse Q&A was acquired by Gartner and integrated into Gartner Peer Insights.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past founder of Cooliris, Pulse Q&A, Bleat Inc, and Ambient Technologies.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Multiple companies co-founded, including Gather, Pulse Q&A, and Cooliris.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Pulse Q&A is a Y Combinator Winter 2018 alum.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Exit: Cooliris was acquired by Yahoo!.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Raised approximately $73.9M in total funding across Gather ($5.0M), Pulse Q&A ($40.8M), and Cooliris ($28.1M).
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Exit: Ambient Technologies was acquired by Zeos Infotech.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified Stack Overflow account with 101 reputation.
Investor score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and startup advisor since 2009, with a portfolio of 35+ companies.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Over 15 years of angel investing experience, active since January 2009.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Active angel investor with at least 38 named portfolio companies including Brightwheel, Gusto, Drata, Cohesity, and others.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Portfolio company Manoramic was acquired by Flipkart.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal inflection point — converting Gather's early traction into a Series A story while managing an active angel portfolio and a growing team. The Festival events most valuable to you are small, high-trust dinners and roundtables with Series A investors active in AI tooling, fellow YC W18 founders who can open warm doors, and enterprise GTM operators who've sold into the CMO suite. You'll also benefit from tactical sessions on SPV structuring and founder-to-investor brand building, where your three-exit track record gives you instant credibility.
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 YC W18 founder dinner focused on Series A readiness, where fellow batch alumni swap data room structures, investor targeting lists, and lessons from converting pre-seed traction into a $15–25M raise narrative
- fundraisingA True Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Anthropic portfolio founder roundtable to pressure-test Gather's Series A story with operators who've raised from the same lead investors and can flag gaps before you go to market
- introsA YC Continuity and top YC-affiliated Series A investor dinner for warm intros to funds actively writing $15–25M checks into AI tooling and enterprise GTM infrastructure right now
- introsA happy hour for founders selling into the enterprise CMO suite — including alumni of Gartner Peer Insights and Salesforce Marketing Cloud ecosystems — to swap warm intro channels, referral arrangements, and co-marketing playbooks that accelerate pipeline before a Series A
- hiringA dinner for founders at the 10–20 employee pre-Series A stage actively hiring their first GTM lead, featuring operators who've owned an enterprise SaaS sales motion and are open to their next founding-team-level role
- positioningA roundtable for serial founders with 20+ angel deals — including YC alumni who've formalized into micro-funds or SPVs — to workshop syndicate structuring, LP targeting, and how to leverage a three-exit track record as a lead check writer
- positioningA small workshop for repeat founders with deep angel portfolios who are underrepresented publicly, focused on building a LinkedIn and newsletter presence that credibly bridges the operator and investor identity — with real examples from founders who've done it
- tacticalA tactical dinner for early-stage AI SaaS founders who've published benchmark reports or customer case studies to drive inbound before a Series A, sharing what formats, distribution channels, and customer proof points actually moved the needle with enterprise buyers