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3x SaaS founder with two exits now building immersive collaboration startup Noro
Credibility
Traction · 59th percentile
- Past founder of Wimba (virtual classroom SaaS, acquired by Blackboard) and TOCCA (virtual events SaaS).
- Merchantry was acquired by Tradeshift for approximately $30M.
- SEC Form D confirms Merchantry, Inc. raised $7M in exempt offerings with Trionfi as a named related person.
- Wimba was acquired by Blackboard (acquisition price undisclosed).
- Adjusting founder_exit total: Wimba exit floors to +1 (undisclosed price), already counted above.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- Probability of being accurate (100%)Noro has raised over $3.0M in total funding.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)SEC Form D confirms Merchantry, Inc. raised $7M in exempt offerings with Trionfi as a named related person.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Noro, an immersive collaboration technology company founded in 2022.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of Wimba (virtual classroom SaaS, acquired by Blackboard) and TOCCA (virtual events SaaS).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wimba was acquired by Blackboard (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Wimba and Noro both had co-founders, confirming co-founded company history.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Merchantry was acquired by Tradeshift for approximately $30M.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Adjusting founder_exit total: Wimba exit floors to +1 (undisclosed price), already counted above.
Investor score
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Active investment in TripIt noted in grounded facts.
What you likely need
You're a serial SaaS founder with two exits under your belt and a current venture in immersive collaboration technology at Noro. Your 25+ years of global operating experience across edtech, ecommerce, and enterprise SaaS make you a strong candidate for founder-to-founder deal flow and strategic partnership conversations. Events focused on enterprise go-to-market, distributed-work technology, and Series A fundraising would be most valuable right now.
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.
- tacticalA roundtable dinner with enterprise SaaS founders who have scaled B2B sales in the collaboration and future-of-work space to pressure-test Noro's go-to-market strategy.
- fundraisingA Series A fundraising dinner with investors who back immersive tech and distributed-work infrastructure startups, to accelerate Noro's next capital raise.
- introsAn edtech founder alumni happy hour connecting Wimba/Blackboard-era operators with current edtech investors for warm intros and deal flow.
- tacticalA dinner for PE-backed operator-CEOs (Oak Hill, Greycroft alumni) to share playbooks on restructuring and divesting portfolio companies.
- positioningA positioning workshop with founders building in the hybrid-work and spatial-computing space to sharpen Noro's category narrative against Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
- wellbeingA small serial-founder wellbeing dinner for operators on their third or fourth venture to share lessons on pacing, team-building, and avoiding burnout.
- hiringA hiring roundtable for early-stage hardware-software hybrid startups to find senior enterprise sales and solutions engineering talent for Noro's expansion.