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Co-founder and CEO building Coastline Academy into the largest US driving school
Credibility
Operator · 57th percentile
- Current Co-Founder and CEO of Coastline Academy, the largest driving school in the US.
- Past founder of Tower59 (Simple409A), CurrentDesign, and mDiagnostica.
- Coastline Academy was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Coastline Academy, the largest driving school in the US.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Raised $5.4M per SEC Form D filing for Ocean Rocket, Inc.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Coastline Academy was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past founder of Tower59 (Simple409A), CurrentDesign, and mDiagnostica.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal moment scaling Coastline Academy through acquisitions and need events that connect you with growth-equity and impact investors who get the thesis. You'd benefit most from high-trust rooms where you can sharpen your Series A narrative, trade M&A playbook notes with other roll-up founders, and build the press and investor relationships that reframe Coastline as a tech-enabled national brand rather than a driving school.
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 for roll-up and acquisition-led founders to pressure-test your Series A thesis and get warm intros to investors who back fragmented-market consolidation plays
- introsAn Oxford Skoll Scholar roundtable connecting mission-driven alumni founders with impact investors who fund safety- and education-focused companies, surfacing the right Series A partners for Coastline Academy
- positioningA founder-and-press dinner with WSJ and NYT journalists who cover edtech and consumer safety to pitch the 'largest driving school in the US' story and land the national feature that cements Coastline's brand authority
- tacticalA tactical roundtable for founders actively acquiring and integrating regional service businesses to swap acquisition playbook frameworks and surface inbound deal flow from operators looking for an exit
- positioningA happy hour for tech-executive-turned-founder operators scaling non-obvious tech-enabled businesses, to sharpen the narrative around Coastline's technology layer and differentiate from the 'just a driving school' framing with investors and press
- hiringA hiring dinner for founders who have recently recruited a COO or VP of Integration into an acquisition-heavy business, to get candidate referrals and a playbook for structuring the role as Coastline onboards new regional schools
- wellbeingA small offsite dinner for multi-time founders running 50-plus-person companies through active M&A cycles, focused on building structured habits for strategic reflection and avoiding the operational tunnel vision that comes with scaling through acquisitions