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52nd percentile
97th percentile
Founding GP of Beat Ventures, early-stage AI investor and operator
Credibility
Firm Standing · 96th percentile
- Active GP and fund manager as Founding General Partner of Beat Ventures.
- Partner at Beat Ventures, a recognized pre-seed/seed VC firm with a public deal record.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor through the Anderson Angels syndicate.
- Approximately 6 years of investing experience, starting as an investor at Toyota AI Ventures in May 2019.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)5,991 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current Founding General Partner of Beat Ventures, the early-stage VC firm he founded in 2021.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder of Bamboo, a Michigan-based coworking company he co-founded in 2013.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Bamboo was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Recipient of Crain's 20 in their 20s Award, recognizing emerging business leaders.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Named to the Techweek 100 List in both 2014 and 2015.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Active builder with 44 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)GitHub account @daveanderson identified as Dave Anderson's account.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)GitHub account is over 15 years old (created 2011).
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active GP and fund manager as Founding General Partner of Beat Ventures.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Partner at Beat Ventures, a recognized pre-seed/seed VC firm with a public deal record.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Approximately 6 years of investing experience, starting as an investor at Toyota AI Ventures in May 2019.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio includes four acquired companies from his time at Toyota AI Ventures: Ziva Dynamics, Bipi, Drishti, and Common Sense Machines (all acquired, undisclosed values).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Has made approximately 200 active investments across Beat Ventures and Anderson Angels portfolios.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Publicly identified as an angel investor through the Anderson Angels syndicate.
What you likely need
You're an active early-stage AI investor and operator with a growing portfolio of 200+ companies and a current operator role at an AI startup. Connecting with other pre-seed/seed AI investors and founders building in legacy-industry AI would sharpen your thesis and deal flow. Events that bridge your investing and operating roles — especially around applied AI and enterprise intelligence — would be most valuable 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.
- introsA pre-seed/seed AI investor roundtable with other sub-$1M check writers to share deal flow and co-invest in applied AI for legacy industries.
- introsA YC S25 founder dinner to meet teams like Flai and other applied AI companies in Beat Ventures' sweet spot.
- tacticalA GTM workshop for early-stage B2B AI SaaS founders on enterprise sales and business intelligence positioning, relevant to Eragon's current growth phase.
- fundraisingA Harvard Business School alumni investor dinner in San Francisco to build LP relationships and co-investment partnerships.
- introsA Detroit tech founder and investor happy hour connecting your Midwest roots with SF-based operators building in legacy industries.
- positioningA micro-VC fund positioning workshop with other emerging managers to sharpen Beat Ventures' LP narrative around applied AI.
- introsA Toyota Ventures alumni happy hour to reconnect with deep-tech and mobility investors and surface co-investment opportunities.