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Founder85Current founder
84th percentile
Investor106Current investor
95th percentile
Combined
Founder-CEO of O'Reilly Media and GP at OATV with exits including Fastly and Blogger
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Portfolio Scale · 93th percentile
- Over 18 years of investing experience, with O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures active since at least 2008.
- Partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), a recognized seed-stage VC firm.
- Active GP and fund manager at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, which raised an $85M third fund.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor, with investments in companies including Fastly, Blogger, Foursquare, and Bitly.
- Made at least 8 active investments including Fastly, Blogger, Delicious, Foursquare, Bitly, Chumby, and others.
- Portfolio exit: Fastly went public via IPO (undisclosed value at time of investment exit).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, a company he has led since 1983.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)oreilly.com ranks #367 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Exit: Global Network Navigator (GNN) was acquired by America Online (AOL) for $15M.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)O'Reilly Media was co-founded with others, confirming the presence of co-founders.
Investor score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), a recognized seed-stage VC firm.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Active GP and fund manager at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, which raised an $85M third fund.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Over 18 years of investing experience, with O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures active since at least 2008.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, with investments in companies including Fastly, Blogger, Foursquare, and Bitly.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Made at least 8 active investments including Fastly, Blogger, Delicious, Foursquare, Bitly, Chumby, and others.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio exit: MySQL AB was acquired by Sun Microsystems (undisclosed value).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio exit: Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems (undisclosed value).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio exit: Blogger was acquired by Google (undisclosed value).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio exit: Fastly went public via IPO (undisclosed value at time of investment exit).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio exit: Delicious was acquired (undisclosed value).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Portfolio exit: Bitly was acquired (undisclosed value).
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Portfolio exit: Foursquare was acquired (undisclosed value).
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with serious AI infrastructure founders and the LPs who are actively writing seed checks into that space right now. Roundtables and dinners where your O'Reilly Media brand can open doors — and where you can stress-test OATV Fund IV positioning with top-tier institutional LPs — are your highest-leverage plays. You'd also benefit from small gatherings with enterprise tech buyers and newsletter operators who can extend your AI content reach well beyond your existing LinkedIn audience.
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 dinner with 8-10 institutional LPs actively writing $5M+ checks into sub-$100M seed-stage AI infrastructure funds to pressure-test the OATV Fund IV raise thesis and size
- tacticalA roundtable with heads of L&D and engineering enablement at Fortune 500 tech companies to pressure-test a dedicated O'Reilly AI practitioner enterprise subscription tier and close anchor partnerships
- positioningA dinner with the operators behind top AI newsletters and podcasts — TLDR AI, Lenny's Podcast, Latent Space — to syndicate the 'End of Programming as We Know It' essay and AI Codecon content to their combined audiences
- introsA closed-door working session with the OATV portfolio founders closest to breakout scale to map exactly where O'Reilly Media content distribution and brand co-marketing can accelerate their growth before a Series B or C raise
- tacticalA roundtable with the operators behind Calm Company Fund, Hustle Fund, and AngelList roll-up vehicles to blueprint a public O'Reilly-branded angel syndicate that opens OATV deal flow to aligned technical investors
- introsAn office hours session pairing Tim with 6-8 pre-seed AI infrastructure founders actively raising their first institutional round, where O'Reilly Media's platform is a live distribution asset on the table
- positioningA dinner with editors and AI beat journalists at Wired, MIT Tech Review, and The Verge to sharpen Tim's public positioning as the definitive AI-era practitioner voice and ensure OATV and O'Reilly Media's current strategy is accurately reflected across high-traffic credibility surfaces