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Co-founder and CTO of acquired Outlier.ai, now GP at Near Horizon
Credibility
Firm Standing · 81th percentile
- Served as General Partner at Near Horizon, a venture builder that deploys capital into early-stage AI companies.
- Partner at Near Horizon, a recognized early-stage venture firm with a public deal record.
- Approximately 2 years of investing experience as GP at Near Horizon (2023–2025).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder and CTO of Outlier.ai.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Outlier.ai was co-founded with Sean (and others).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Outlier.ai raised $40.3M in total funding across 8 rounds.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Outlier.ai was acquired (acquisition price undisclosed).
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Served as General Partner at Near Horizon, a venture builder that deploys capital into early-stage AI companies.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Partner at Near Horizon, a recognized early-stage venture firm with a public deal record.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 2 years of investing experience as GP at Near Horizon.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point where deep ML/AI technical credibility meets early-stage company-building experience, and the right rooms can help you sharpen your narrative and decide what you're building next. Events that put you in front of other technical founders spinning out of big AI labs, or angels formalizing their first thesis, will accelerate both your positioning and your deal flow. The highest-leverage gatherings for you right now are small, high-trust dinners where you can workshop your Outlier.ai story and get warm signal on whether to co-found, invest, or both.
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.
- positioningA founder dinner for technical exited founders to workshop acquisition narratives — pressure-testing how to tell the Outlier.ai story publicly without a disclosed price but with a named acquirer
- introsA roundtable for senior ML engineers and researchers inside Microsoft CoreAI who are quietly exploring spinning out, where your co-founder and CTO experience at Outlier.ai is directly applicable
- fundraisingA dinner for first-time angels and emerging GPs formalizing their first written thesis, drawing on your Near Horizon GP experience to start building a public portfolio track record with small checks
- positioningA technical writing workshop and peer-review session for ML/NLP founders and researchers turning internal case studies — like the systems built at Outlier.ai and Google — into published thought leadership
- tacticalA roundtable for venture builders and EIRs navigating the transition from studio or near-horizon roles to formal co-founder or equity positions, directly relevant to your current Sanctum Technology situation
- tacticalA happy hour for senior engineers and technical founders actively contributing to open-source AI/ML projects who are rebuilding or establishing a visible public GitHub presence alongside their day roles
- positioningA small dinner for technical founders mid-transition — between operator, investor, and builder — workshopping how to align their LinkedIn, writing, and public narrative with where they're actually headed next