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74th percentile
World Series of Poker champion turned decision-science author and First Round partner
Credibility
Firm Standing · 57th percentile
- Partner / Principal at First Round Capital, a recognized seed-stage venture firm.
- Approximately 2 years of investing experience as Special Partner at First Round Capital since April 2022.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder of the Alliance for Decision Education, a nonprofit focused on decision skills education.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikidata / Wikipedia entity exists for Annie Duke, confirming public notability.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)alliancefordecisioneducation.org ranks #873,066 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Alliance for Decision Education was co-founded with at least one other co-founder, confirming a co-founding team.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder of Ante Up for Africa, a charitable organization co-founded with Don Cheadle and Norman Epstein.
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Partner / Principal at First Round Capital, a recognized seed-stage venture firm.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Approximately 2 years of investing experience as Special Partner at First Round Capital since April 2022.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Made at least 1 active investment, including a seed investment in Hoop in June 2024.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple sources.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point where your decision-science credibility can be converted into a serious investor identity, and the right rooms will accelerate that faster than any solo publishing effort. Events that put you in front of First Round portfolio founders, behavioral-science-adjacent operators, and syndicate-curious angels will help you formalize deal flow and co-investment relationships. You'll get the most out of gatherings where your frameworks are the asset, not just your name.
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.
- introsA First Round portfolio founder dinner where Annie can pilot her decision-evaluation framework as a structured table exercise, converting Special Partner visibility into formal advisory roles and deal flow
- fundraisingA roundtable with Irrational Capital, Behavioral Insights Team alumni, and seed-stage angels to pressure-test the thesis for a behavioral-science-focused angel syndicate and identify anchor co-investors
- fundraisingA dinner with program officers from Schmidt Futures, Lumina Foundation, and Einhorn Collaborative to unlock institutional grants and corporate partnerships that scale the Alliance for Decision Education's 40-person operation
- introsA happy hour with YC, Techstars, and On Deck program directors to structure a formal referral pipeline converting Annie's keynote audiences into founder intros and early-stage deal flow
- positioningA small workshop with Lenny Rachitsky, Julie Zhuo, and other operator-turned-investor writers to workshop Annie's public investing thesis connecting cognitive psychology research to startup evaluation for a differentiated newsletter launch
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with First Round co-investors at Homebrew, Precursor, and Hustle Fund to identify active seed rounds where Annie's decision-science diligence lens adds enough value to earn co-invest allocation
- tacticalA tactical half-day with two First Round partners and three portfolio CEOs to stress-test Annie's 2023 PhD research as a proprietary decision-evaluation rubric that can be packaged as a First Round platform tool
- positioningA dinner with Daniel Kahneman-adjacent academics-turned-investors and author-investors like Michael Mauboussin to sharpen Annie's public investor identity and get candid feedback on differentiating her brand from pure thought leadership into credible venture signal