Founder Festival: Tim Griffin's Profile

Welcome, Tim Griffin

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Founder68

77th percentile

Investor52

84th percentile

Combined

#162 on Leaderboard

Two-time YC founder and Managing Partner of MPG Fund now building Craftwork

• Professional:YC S19 Serial Founder Acquired Raised $10M+10+ Employees Angel Investor

Credibility

this founder typical founder (50th pct)

Operator · 90th percentile

Current co-founder and CEO of Craftwork.
Two-time Y Combinator alum (S19 with Cloosiv, S23 with Craftwork).
Past founder of Cloosiv, a mobile ordering app for independent coffee shops.
Craftwork was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.

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Founder score

97%Current co-founder and CEO of Craftwork.
97%Two-time Y Combinator alum (S19 with Cloosiv, S23 with Craftwork).
97%Past founder of Cloosiv, a mobile ordering app for independent coffee shops.
95%Named related person on SEC Form D filing for Spakl Tech, Inc. (offering up to $5.2M), confirming operator/officer role.
95%Named related person on SEC Form D filings for Odeko Inc. (largest offering $53.6M), confirming board/officer role.
92%Odeko raised at least $53.6M per SEC Form D filings, and Tim Griffin is a named related person as a board member and former C-suite officer.
90%Cloosiv was acquired by Odeko in a merger of equals.
85%Craftwork raised $8M in total funding across multiple rounds.
85%Craftwork was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
80%GitHub account @timgriffin has been active for over 13 years (created 2013).
80%Cloosiv raised $2.3M in total funding before its acquisition by Odeko.
75%Currently shipping public code on GitHub (most recent push 27 days ago, repo 'home-assistant').
70%GitHub account @timgriffin confirmed as Tim Griffin's account.

Investor score

92%Publicly identified as an angel investor, backing early-stage startups across the U.S. and Canada.
90%Managing Partner of MPG Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in North American tech startups.
88%Has made at least 4 confirmed investments including Flint, Slope, Vaya, and Zage.
85%Partner / Principal at MPG Fund, a recognized early-stage venture capital firm with a public deal record.
80%MPG Fund was founded in 2021, giving approximately 4 years of investing experience.

What you likely need

You're at a pivotal inflection point as a YC S19/S23 operator-investor: Craftwork needs a Series A narrative and the right institutional introductions, while MPG Fund needs more public visibility to attract better deal flow and LPs. The most valuable Festival events for you are intimate dinners and roundtables that put you in the same room as YC Continuity-affiliated growth investors, fellow dual-hat operator-investors who've scaled services-tech businesses, and senior talent who can help you rebuild Craftwork's core team.

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 YC S23 alumni dinner with Series A investors from YC Continuity Fund and Benchmark to pressure-test Craftwork's home services tech thesis and surface warm intro paths to a $15–25M round
tacticalA YC S19/S23 dual-batch founder roundtable for operator-investors who run both an active fund and a scaling company, to swap playbooks on managing the operator-investor identity split
positioningA seed-to-Series-A founder dinner for home services and trades-tech operators (think Jobber, ServiceTitan ecosystem) to benchmark Craftwork's revenue growth narrative and software differentiation story ahead of fundraising
tacticalAn AngelList syndicate and rolling-fund operator happy hour for YC-affiliated angels formalizing their fund vehicles, to get tactical on structuring MPG Fund as a syndicate and co-investing alongside larger institutional funds
introsA YC alumni office hours session with founders who've closed Series A rounds from Continuity, Spark, or Felicis in the last 18 months, focused on warm intro sequencing and deck narrative for YC S23 companies
hiringA Craftwork-focused hiring dinner for senior operations and field-ops leaders from Odeko, Jobber, and Thumbtack alumni networks, targeting the core team rebuild before Craftwork scales its next marketing push
positioningA build-in-public roundtable for early-stage fund managers growing their public deal record and portfolio pages on AngelList, to sharpen MPG Fund's LP pitch and inbound deal flow from founder-researchers