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Founder47Current founder
64th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
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AI-education founder and CEO of Pensive, backed by $7M in funding
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Domain Expertise · 87th percentile
- Featured in a dedicated profile article in EO Magazine about founding Pensive and his personal story — domain expertise in AI education.
- One of the youngest full-time AI research scientists in Korea at Riiid, an AI-education unicorn, demonstrating deep domain expertise in AI and education.
- Identified researcher with h-index 6 and 4,007 citations across 30 works (OpenAlex).
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of Pensive, an AI grader and tutor for colleges.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Pensive has raised $7M in total funding across its funding rounds.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Featured speaker at the ASU GSV Summit, a prominent edtech and education industry conference.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past founder and CEO of Everest Berkeley, a consumer habit-building startup founded in 2019.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)One of the youngest full-time AI research scientists in Korea at Riiid, an AI-education unicorn, demonstrating deep domain expertise in AI and education.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Featured in a dedicated profile article in EO Magazine about founding Pensive and his personal story — domain expertise in AI education.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Pensive was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Identified researcher with h-index 6 and 4,007 citations across 30 works (OpenAlex).
What you likely need
You're an early-stage AI-education founder who has raised $7M and is actively scaling Pensive — your next priorities are likely closing your next funding round, hiring key technical talent, and building distribution in the higher-ed market. Events that connect you with edtech-focused investors, fellow AI founders, and university partnership leads would be highest-leverage right now.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
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- introsAn edtech founder dinner with other AI-in-education CEOs (Duolingo, Khanmigo, Synthesis alumni) to share go-to-market playbooks for higher-ed institutions.
- fundraisingA seed-to-Series-A fundraising roundtable with Reach Capital, Owl Ventures, and other edtech-focused investors to pressure-test your Series A narrative.
- tacticalAn AI research-to-founder meetup for former ML scientists turned startup CEOs to swap lessons on productizing research into consumer-facing AI tools.
- hiringA UC Berkeley EECS alumni happy hour to recruit founding engineers and early ML hires for Pensive's growing team.
- introsAn Anthropic ecosystem founder dinner for startups building on Claude to share integration learnings and co-marketing opportunities.
- positioningA roundtable with university administrators and edtech buyers to sharpen Pensive's positioning for college and university procurement cycles.
- wellbeingA small wellbeing dinner for young immigrant founders navigating the pressures of early-stage company building in San Francisco.