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Founder22Current founder
26th percentile
Investor36Current investor
77th percentile
Combined
True Ventures AI Scout and serial open-source founder now building Sailplane
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Portfolio Scale · 76th percentile
- Publicly identified as an angel investor with confirmed investments in Athenian, Golioth, Orbit, NextData, and Telmai.
- Has been investing since at least 2021 based on confirmed investments, representing approximately 4 years of investing experience, with broader advisory and investor activity spanning a longer career.
- Has at least 5 confirmed active investments across Athenian, Golioth, Orbit, NextData, Telmai, and others per Crunchbase (3 portfolio companies listed).
- Portfolio company Orbit was acquired, representing a portfolio acquisition of undisclosed value.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Sailplane, a venture-backed hierarchical planning AI research company.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, an open-source platform foundation he established during his career.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Sailplane is a venture-backed company with co-founders, confirming a co-founded company exists.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Has a dev.to account as @sramji, indicating a public technical presence.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with confirmed investments in Athenian, Golioth, Orbit, NextData, and Telmai.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio company Orbit was acquired, representing a portfolio acquisition of undisclosed value.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has at least 5 confirmed active investments across Athenian, Golioth, Orbit, NextData, Telmai, and others per Crunchbase.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Has been investing since at least 2021 based on confirmed investments, representing approximately 4 years of investing experience, with broader advisory and investor activity spanning a longer career.
What you likely need
You need events that put Sailplane's hierarchical planning AI narrative in front of institutional VCs and technical co-investors before your next round closes. Your True Ventures AI Scout role and Google Brain/Cloud alumni network are underleveraged for both fundraising intros and senior engineering recruitment. Lean into gatherings where open-source credibility and production AI systems are the shared language — that's where Sailplane's story lands hardest.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
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- fundraisingA True Ventures LP and co-investor dinner for AI Scout-affiliated founders to surface Sailplane's next round to the institutional investors already inside the tent
- positioningA Google Brain and Google Cloud alumni roundtable on production AI systems where Sam can publicly anchor Sailplane as the canonical hierarchical planning AI company alongside his co-founders' pedigree
- hiringA Linux Foundation and CNCF alumni happy hour for senior engineers building production AI infrastructure, targeting the open-source operators who would make Sailplane's reliability research credible from day one
- positioningA small invite-only dinner for founders and researchers actively publishing on AI agents and planning systems, where Sam can pressure-test and socialize Sailplane's definitive hierarchical planning framing before committing it to a public paper
- positioningA developer infrastructure and AI data tooling angel investor happy hour featuring portfolio companies like Golioth, Orbit, and Telmai, designed to formalize Sam's investment thesis publicly and sharpen his investor brand ahead of Sailplane's raise
- introsA True Ventures AI Scout office hours session with Tier 1 institutional VCs who co-invest alongside True, structured to generate warm inbound interest in Sailplane without a cold pitch
- tacticalA build-in-public roundtable for open-source AI founders with active GitHub research outputs, where Sam can workshop Sailplane's OSS strategy and get accountability pressure to ship a public repo before the next funding conversation