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Founder53Current founder
69th percentile
Investor59Current investor
88th percentile
Combined
Repeat AI enterprise founder and Sterling Road partner now leading PeopleReign
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Portfolio Scale · 74th percentile
- Active GP / fund manager as a Member of the Investment Committee at Sterling Road and Spike Ventures.
- Partner / Principal at Sterling Road, a recognized B2B startup investing firm.
- Named investor in at least 3 portfolio companies (InsightFinder, Astound AI, PeopleReign) per grounded sources.
- Named investor in at least 3 known portfolio companies: InsightFinder, Astound AI, and PeopleReign.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of PeopleReign.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Confirmed as a named related person on InsightFinder Inc.'s SEC Form D exempt-offering filing.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Astound raised $15.5M led by March Capital Partners with participation from Vertex Ventures and Pelion Venture Partners.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder of Astound, an AI platform for employee service.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Founded Aeroprise, which was acquired by BMC Software (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Founded Rhomobile, which was acquired by Motorola (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)PeopleReign has raised $7.5M in total funding across 2 prior funding rounds.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)PeopleReign and Astound both had co-founders, confirming collaborative founding history.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account @dturchin identified and linked to Dan Turchin.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account @dturchin has been active for approximately 17 years (created 2009).
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and active investor across multiple startups.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Named investor in at least 3 portfolio companies (InsightFinder, Astound AI, PeopleReign) per grounded sources.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Named investor in at least 3 known portfolio companies: InsightFinder, Astound AI, and PeopleReign.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Active GP / fund manager as a Member of the Investment Committee at Sterling Road and Spike Ventures.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Exited portfolio company Aeroprise was acquired by BMC Software (undisclosed value).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Exited portfolio company Rhomobile was acquired by Motorola (undisclosed value).
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Partner / Principal at Sterling Road, a recognized B2B startup investing firm.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Has been actively investing since at least 2015, representing approximately 10 years of investing experience.
What you likely need
You're a repeat enterprise founder mid-raise, so the highest-leverage Festival events put you in the room with Series A investors who understand AI infrastructure and enterprise SaaS multiples. You also need to build out your GTM team fast and formalize your investor identity — events that blur the line between founder credibility and LP/co-investor positioning will compound well for you 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.
- fundraisingA Series A fundraising dinner for AI enterprise SaaS founders who've raised $5–15M and are actively pitching institutional leads — focused on deck teardowns and warm VC intros
- fundraisingA Sterling Road and Spike Ventures portfolio founder roundtable where operator-investors like you swap Series A lead introductions and co-investment deal flow across enterprise AI
- positioningA dinner for repeat enterprise founders with at least one strategic exit — BMC, Motorola, Cisco-tier acquirers — to workshop how prior M&A credibility gets framed in Series A fundraising narratives
- tacticalA happy hour for B2B AI podcast hosts with 500K+ downloads — 'AI and the Future of Work' tier — to share tactics for converting listener audiences directly into enterprise demo pipeline
- introsA closed dinner with founders and GTM leaders from BigPanda, InsightFinder, and adjacent AIOps platforms to explore channel partnership structures that extend PeopleReign's enterprise reach without adding headcount
- hiringA hiring roundtable for sub-25-person enterprise AI companies urgently recruiting a VP of Sales and Head of Customer Success, with a curated shortlist of candidates in the room
- positioningA dinner for active angel investors on formal investment committees — Sterling Road, Spike Ventures, and comparable pre-seed vehicles — looking to formalize a personal brand or solo GP micro-fund to attract proprietary deal flow