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YC-backed founder and CEO who built Gem into a $1.2B recruiting unicorn
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 93th percentile
- Portfolio company Amplitude went public via IPO, representing a portfolio IPO exit.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor, with a portfolio of approximately 50 companies including Amplitude, Vanta, and others.
- Has been actively investing since at least 2012, representing approximately 13 years of investing experience.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Gem, an AI-driven recruiting platform.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator S17 alum — Gem was part of YC Summer 2017 batch.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Gem raised $150M total across its funding rounds (Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, Sapphire, Meritech, YC).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)gem.com ranks #86,877 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Gem was co-founded with Nick Bushak (met at MIT), confirming co-founder relationship.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Gem achieved unicorn status with a valuation of approximately $1.2B at its Series C raise of $100M.
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, with a portfolio of approximately 50 companies including Amplitude, Vanta, and others.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Portfolio company Amplitude went public via IPO, representing a portfolio IPO exit.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has been actively investing since at least 2012, representing approximately 13 years of investing experience.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio company Uiflow was acquired (undisclosed value), per YC records.
What you likely need
You're a unicorn-stage founder navigating the gap between Series C and a potential IPO or strategic exit, so the highest-value Festival events put you in rooms with late-stage institutional investors, public-market-ready CFOs, and fellow founder-angels who can sharpen your Series D narrative and syndicate strategy. You also have a rare dual identity as an operator and angel with 50+ bets, meaning dinners that blend deal flow, co-investor relationships, and enterprise sales intros will compound faster than any single-track event. Rounding that out with a leadership wellbeing format designed for 9-year founders running 150+ person orgs would give you the strategic reset your stage demands.
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 late-stage founder dinner with GPs from Tiger Global, General Atlantic, and Coatue to pressure-test Series D ARR trajectory and NRR narratives ahead of a 2025–2026 raise
- fundraisingA founder-angel roundtable for operators running 30–75 company portfolios — including Amplitude, Vanta, and Tesseral-tier deals — exploring how to formalize into a named syndicate or micro-fund without a full GP commitment
- tacticalA CFO and controller dinner for unicorn-stage founders within 18–24 months of S-1 readiness, focused on Big 4 auditor selection, SOX implementation timelines, and what Accel, Greylock, and ICONIQ expect before you file
- introsAn MIT alumni founder and enterprise sales dinner connecting Gem to heavy-recruiting R&D orgs and co-investor introductions through the same network that validated the Steve Bartel and Nick Bushak co-founder channel
- positioningA happy hour for AI-category founders who are active TechCrunch contributors or LinkedIn creators with 25K+ followers, workshopping how to turn content platforms like startuphiring101.com into inbound pipeline engines for enterprise ATS displacement
- hiringA closed-door dinner for HR tech and ATS founders with Google, Anthropic, Stripe, or Airbnb as reference customers, focused on building formal enterprise reference programs that accelerate Fortune 500 displacement deals
- wellbeingA half-day offsite format for founders at the 8–12 year mark running 100–200 person unicorn-stage companies, designed around maintaining strategic clarity, preventing execution fatigue, and structuring quarterly leadership team resets