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Serial founder and Slow Money investor building community capital for local food systems
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 29th percentile
- Publicly identified as an angel investor and Slow Money investor, having led multiple investments in sustainable food businesses through Slow Money Northern California.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder and CEO of Credibles, a community crowdfunding platform for local food businesses, founded in 2013.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Co-founded Investibule in 2017, an investment management platform for community-focused investing.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Credibles and Investibule were co-founded with partners, indicating co-founder relationships across his ventures.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder of ActEdge, a strategy consultancy he founded and ran from 2002 to 2009.
Investor score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and Slow Money investor, having led multiple investments in sustainable food businesses through Slow Money Northern California.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Has been an active investor with Slow Money Northern California since 2009, representing approximately 16 years of investing experience (capped at 15).
What you likely need
You sit at the intersection of community capital, food systems, and impact investing — a rare combination that makes you valuable to both mission-driven founders and values-aligned investors. Your work with Credibles, Investibule, and Slow Money Northern California positions you well for gatherings focused on alternative finance, regenerative food systems, and community-led capital formation. Events that bring together impact investors, food-tech founders, and community finance innovators would be the highest-leverage use of your time at Founder Festival.
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 roundtable dinner with impact investors and food-systems founders to share deal flow and co-investment opportunities in regenerative agriculture and local food economies.
- tacticalA tactical workshop on community capital instruments (revenue-based financing, edible credits, Reg CF) for founders building in the food and agriculture space.
- introsA Slow Money network dinner connecting NorCal food entrepreneurs with mission-aligned investors to surface co-investment and mentorship opportunities.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session pairing early-stage food-tech and agri-tech founders with experienced community-capital operators for fundraising strategy advice.
- positioningA positioning workshop with other fintech and community-finance founders to sharpen Credibles' go-to-market narrative for credit unions and food co-ops.
- introsA happy hour bringing together regenerative food-systems investors, JEDI Collaborative members, and Naturally Network alumni to build cross-sector relationships.
- hiringA hiring-focused dinner with mission-driven operators and community-finance builders to identify potential team members for Credibles' next growth phase.