Founder98Current founder
87th percentile
Investor57Current investor
87th percentile
Combined
Serial founder behind $750M-acquired GetThere now building AmForge
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- 10 ptsDan is an exceptional founder. He's ambitious yet thoughtful, with an insatiable curiosity and attention to detail that showcases his product craft chops.Upvote this endorsement by addingof your Festival points to it.
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GTM / Distribution · 85th percentile
- hypothes.is ranks #8,248 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)hypothes.is ranks #8,248 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of GetThere, Hypothesis, Climos, BTP Automation, and other ventures.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of AmForge, co-founded in January 2026.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GetThere (Internet Travel Network) was acquired by Sabre Group for $750M and also completed an IPO prior to acquisition.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)GetThere and Hypothesis had co-founders, confirming collaborative founding history.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow for the Hypothes.is project, a recognized fellowship for open-web innovators.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Hypothesis raised $1.9M in total funding.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with h-index 3 and 126 citations across research areas including Semantic Web and Marine ecosystems.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Stack Overflow account identified for Dan Whaley with 1 reputation.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Portfolio company RelateIQ was acquired by Salesforce for up to $390M.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, having funded companies including TripIt, Convoy, and RelateIQ.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Made at least 3 confirmed active investments: TripIt, Convoy, and RelateIQ.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Served as Lead Series A Investor and board member at Sauce Labs for nearly 8 years, acting as an active GP/fund manager through the Contrarian Group.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 30 years of investing experience dating back to the mid-1990s, capped at 15 years for scoring.
What you likely need
You're a serial founder with a landmark exit who just launched two new ventures simultaneously, so the highest-leverage Festival moments for you are tight rooms where a single conversation can unlock a lead investor, a CTO hire, or an enterprise design partner. You'll get the most out of gatherings that mix climate and defense-tech investors with operators who've navigated hardware-adjacent infrastructure builds, and dinners where your GetThere/Sabre pedigree opens doors rather than needing explanation. Smaller, curated formats — roundtables and office hours over big networking nights — will protect your energy across three concurrent founding roles.
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 seed and pre-seed investor dinner focused on America-first critical minerals and domestic manufacturing, where Dan can pressure-test AmForge's raise narrative with climate-tech and defense-tech fund partners actively deploying in 2026
- introsA GetThere/Sabre alumni roundtable with former colleagues now in enterprise procurement and travel-tech leadership roles, to surface early BTP Automation design partners and warm introductions to Fortune 500 travel buyers
- positioningA closed-door dinner with 6-8 founders and operators building agentic AI for enterprise workflows, where Dan can road-test the BTP Automation category narrative and co-develop the thought-leadership framing before publishing
- hiringA technical founder and CTO roundtable for energy, critical minerals, and hard-infrastructure startups, designed to surface senior engineering leaders who've scaled complex physical-plus-software systems and could be a co-lead hire for AmForge
- tacticalA tactical dinner for active angels and scout-network operators looking to formalize deal flow into lightweight SPVs or syndicates, where Dan can benchmark structures and find co-leads to pool his network's deal flow without spinning up a full fund
- positioningA happy hour for founders with W3C, IETF, or open-standards leadership credentials — the rare cohort who can speak to how standards work (like Hypothesis's W3C Web Annotation) translates into enterprise credibility and procurement trust
- wellbeingAn intimate dinner for founders simultaneously running or board-advising three or more active companies, to share honest frameworks for protecting high-energy hours and avoiding diffusion of impact across concurrent founding roles