Founder55
37th percentile
Investor62
88th percentile
Profile ClaimedSerial FounderIPOAcquired2 ExitsRaised $5M+100+ EmployeesAngel InvestorOn Wikipedia
Investor Matrix
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Firm Standing · 93th percentile
- Joined the Contrarian Group as a partner and led the Series A round for Sauce Labs.
- Served as an active GP and fund manager at the Contrarian Group, leading deals and sitting on boards for nearly eight years.
Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)GetThere was acquired by Sabre Holdings Corporation for $757 million in cash.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GetThere went public via IPO, confirmed by Wikipedia and SEC records.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of GetThere, Climos, Hypothesis, Invest in Open Infrastructure, and the ISIS Consortium.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Multiple companies co-founded with partners, including GetThere with Al Whaley and Bruce Yoxsimer, and BTP Automation with Bruce Yoxsimer.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder and CEO of AmForge and co-founder and Chairman of BTP Automation.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Dan Whaley has a Wikipedia entry as founder of GetThere, confirming public notability.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Raised approximately $5.4M in documented venture funding across Climos ($3.5M Series A) and Hypothesis ($1.9M).
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with 126 citations across 6 works spanning ocean science and semantic web topics.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Identified Stack Overflow account on record for Dan Whaley.
Investor score
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and active funder of multiple companies over his career.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Confirmed active investments in at least two companies: Sauce Labs (Lead Series A, board member) and TripIt.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Joined the Contrarian Group as a partner and led the Series A round for Sauce Labs.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Approximately 15 years of active investing experience, beginning with early-stage investments around 2009.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Served as an active GP and fund manager at the Contrarian Group, leading deals and sitting on boards for nearly eight years.
What you likely need
Dan is a seasoned serial founder with two major exits (GetThere IPO and $757M Sabre acquisition) and multiple active ventures including AmForge and BTP Automation. His deep network and investing track record position him well to raise institutional capital for his current companies. The primary opportunity is formalizing his investor identity and raising a dedicated vehicle to back the next wave of AI-driven enterprise infrastructure.
Are these your current priorities?
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.
- fundraisingPursue a formal Series A for AmForge by leveraging your GetThere exit story and Sabre relationship as proof of enterprise distribution credibility.
- fundraisingFormalize your angel investing activity into a named syndicate or micro-fund to attract LP capital and increase deal flow visibility.
- tacticalUse BTP Automation's existing 700-company customer base as a reference network to accelerate enterprise pilots and close a growth round.
- positioningLeverage your founding board seat at Getaround (NYSE: GETR) to position yourself publicly as a mobility and marketplace expert for deal flow and speaking opportunities.
- positioningDocument and publicize the Hypothesis open-source handoff to the W3C Web Annotation standard as a credibility signal for your technical depth in AI and knowledge infrastructure.
- introsRe-engage your climate-tech network from the Climos and ISIS Consortium days to identify co-investment or advisory opportunities in the current wave of carbon removal startups.
- positioningPublish a clear public narrative around AmForge's America-first critical minerals thesis to attract strategic partners and government contract opportunities.