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22nd percentile
69th percentile
Serial founder, angel investor, and CEO scaling Cribl's data engine
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 61th percentile
- Publicly identified as an angel investor, confirmed by CBInsights and his personal site.
- Approximately 5 years of angel investing experience based on known portfolio activity.
- Has made 4 active investments including Speakeasy (Series A, October 2024), Opendoor, Airtime, and Spicewell.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Cribl, a data engine for IT and Security, founded in March 2017.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Cribl was co-founded with other co-founders, confirming a team founding.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past founder of Aggregate Technology Solutions.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, confirmed by CBInsights and his personal site.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Has made 4 active investments including Speakeasy (Series A, October 2024), Opendoor, Airtime, and Spicewell.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Approximately 5 years of angel investing experience based on known portfolio activity.
What you likely need
You're a high-growth infrastructure founder and active angel who needs to close the gap between your real-world credibility and your public signal. The most valuable Festival events for you are small, high-trust rooms where unicorn founders and top-tier infrastructure investors swap war stories, sharpen investment theses, and create the kind of documented moments that build durable public reputation. You'll also benefit from tactical gatherings with builder-identity founders who are active on GitHub and in public writing, where peer pressure and shared norms make thought leadership feel natural rather than performative.
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.
- positioningA unicorn-founder dinner for B2B data infrastructure CEOs (think Databricks, Confluent, Fivetran alumni) to swap notes on documenting valuation milestones and building the public narrative around them
- positioningA Kleiner Perkins Grit Podcast alumni roundtable where past guests compare how they've converted podcast appearances into sustained thought-leadership presence around their core domain
- introsAn angel syndicate dinner for operator-investors writing their first public investment thesis in data infrastructure and developer tools, to pressure-test thesis framing and unlock higher-quality inbound deal flow
- tacticalA happy hour for hands-on product executives and founders with a 'builder of things' identity who are actively establishing or growing a public GitHub presence as a technical credibility signal
- positioningA roundtable for Series B/C founders who have navigated authorizing press coverage of major funding rounds, to share playbooks for getting milestones publicly attributed and picked up by tier-one outlets
- introsA dinner pairing Cribl-era data infrastructure founders with active infrastructure-focused angels and seed funds to generate warm intros that compound both deal flow and investor reputation simultaneously
- tacticalA build-in-public writing night for infrastructure founders who haven't yet published their investment or product thesis, structured around drafting and peer-editing a first public essay in a single evening
- positioningA private dinner for unicorn-stage founders who have reached or are approaching profitability, focused on how and when to make a public statement that signals company maturity to both investors and enterprise customers