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Serial founder who sold Mashery to Intel, now CEO of Barndoor AI
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current co-founder and CEO of Barndoor AI.
- WiFinder was founded and owned by Oren Michels, adding a third distinct founded company to his record.
- Barndoor AI has co-founders on the founding team.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current co-founder and CEO of Barndoor AI.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past co-founder and CEO of Mashery, which was acquired by Intel in 2013.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Barndoor AI raised $13.6M in Series Seed funding led by Crosslink Capital.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Barndoor AI has co-founders on the founding team.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Intel acquired Mashery in 2013 for an undisclosed price.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)WiFinder was founded and owned by Oren Michels, adding a third distinct founded company to his record.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and LP in technology startups in the US and Europe.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Oren Michels has made at least 2 documented investments, including a seed investment in PebblePost.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Approximately 3 years of documented investing activity based on known investments from 2009 to 2015.
What you likely need
You're at a critical inflection point — Barndoor's seed round is closed and Series A prep starts now, so the highest-leverage Festival events are the ones that put you in the room with enterprise-AI-thesis VCs and Fortune 100 security buyers who already speak your language. You also need to close the gap between your operating credibility and your public technical presence, making founder-led content and developer-community events unusually high-ROI for you right now. Rounding out your angel syndicate and keeping your cap table clean before diligence means tactical and legal-alignment gatherings are worth your time too.
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 Series A founder dinner with Bessemer, Costanoa, and Crosslink partners who hold active enterprise-AI security theses, for candid ARR milestone pressure-testing and warm lead-investor mapping ahead of Barndoor's raise
- introsAn Intel and Mashery alumni roundtable with former colleagues now in Fortune 100 CTO and CISO seats, to open structured Barndoor pilot conversations anchored in your shared API governance history
- positioningA dinner for founders and practitioners publishing on agentic AI governance — the Barndoor 2026 Organizational Behavior report as a shared conversation anchor — to sharpen your byline thesis and identify podcast co-hosts or co-authors
- tacticalA post-RSAC 2026 tactical workshop for enterprise-security founders to structure booth-contact follow-up into a demo pipeline, with peer review of outreach sequencing and Barndoor's tailored demo flow
- positioningA happy hour for founders and engineers building on MCP and agentic infrastructure to trade Show HN and GitHub demo strategies, helping Oren build a public technical presence around Barndoor's MCP security approach and attract developer-led enterprise champions
- introsA dinner for operator-angels formalizing their first SPV or syndicate — with Ingressive Capital LPs and deal-network peers in the room — to compare structures, legal setup, and co-investment sourcing strategies
- tacticalA closed-door roundtable for seed-stage founders within 12 months of a Series A, focused on cap table hygiene, co-founder equity documentation, and vesting schedule alignment before investor scrutiny begins