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Founder300Current founder
97th percentile
Investor178Current investor
98th percentile
Combined
Code.org founder and prolific angel investor behind Facebook, Airbnb, and Uber
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and Chairman of Code.org, an education nonprofit he co-founded in 2012 and continues to lead.
- Featured in multiple TechCrunch profiles and interviews as a prominent angel investor and serial founder — dedicated coverage in a tier-1 outlet.
- Code.org was co-founded with his twin brother Ali Partovi.
- Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for Hadi Partovi, identifying him as CEO of Code.org.
- Top corroborated YouTube video 'Computer Science Education Week: Hadi Partovi, Founder of Code.org' has 12,395 views — thought-leadership reach.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and Chairman of Code.org, an education nonprofit he co-founded in 2012 and continues to lead.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Code.org was co-founded with his twin brother Ali Partovi.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)375,718 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)code.org ranks #3,568 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of iLike, a social music service co-founded with his brother Ali Partovi and later acquired by MySpace.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikidata entity exists (Q21043319) confirming Hadi Partovi as a notable American entrepreneur.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for Hadi Partovi, identifying him as CEO of Code.org.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Code.org has raised $57.9M in total funding across 7 prior funding rounds.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Featured in multiple TechCrunch profiles and interviews as a prominent angel investor and serial founder — dedicated coverage in a tier-1 outlet.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Exit: iLike acquired by MySpace for $20M.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Profiled in Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of the top Silicon Valley angel investors — regional/trade press recognition.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Top corroborated YouTube video 'Computer Science Education Week: Hadi Partovi, Founder of Code.org' has 12,395 views — thought-leadership reach.
Investor score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple sources, with early investments in Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, SpaceX, and Dropbox.
- 93%Probability of being accurate (93%)Portfolio acquisition: Zappos acquired by Amazon for $850M (≥$100M reported value).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Portfolio includes multiple IPOs: Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox, Boku, and OPOWER — each a portfolio IPO exit.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Portfolio acquisition: Codecademy acquired by SkillSoft for $386M (≥$100M reported value).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active investing since at least 1996 — approximately 29 years of investing experience (capped at 15 years per rubric).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Crunchbase lists 40 portfolio companies for Hadi Partovi as an individual investor.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio acquisition: Statsig acquired (value undisclosed).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio acquisition: Vamo acquired by Airbnb (value undisclosed).
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Portfolio acquisition: Saturn Technologies acquired (value undisclosed).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio acquisition: Arrived Homes acquired (value undisclosed).
What you likely need
As the founder of Code.org and one of Silicon Valley's most active angel investors with 40+ portfolio companies and multiple unicorn/IPO exits, you'd benefit most from high-signal gatherings that connect you with other prolific angels and late-stage operators. Events focused on edtech, AI in education, and consumer internet would align with your portfolio thesis and Code.org's mission. Roundtables with other founder-investors who have navigated nonprofit scaling and for-profit angel investing simultaneously would be especially valuable.
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 curated angel investor dinner in SF with other 40+ portfolio angels to compare notes on early-stage consumer internet and AI deal flow.
- tacticalAn edtech founder roundtable with operators scaling K-12 and higher-ed platforms to pressure-test Code.org's next curriculum and AI strategy.
- wellbeingA nonprofit CEO peer group dinner for founders running mission-driven organizations at scale to share operational and fundraising playbooks.
- introsA dinner with other investors who backed multiple IPO-stage companies (Facebook, Airbnb, Uber cohort) to discuss late-stage portfolio management and secondary strategies.
- positioningA positioning workshop with AI-in-education founders and policy advocates to sharpen Code.org's narrative around AI literacy for K-12.
- hiringA Harvard CS alumni founder happy hour in Seattle to recruit senior engineering and product talent for Code.org's next growth phase.
- fundraisingA seed-stage deal-flow syndicate roundtable with other prolific Seattle-area angels to co-invest in technical-founder-led consumer and developer-tools startups.