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Founder79Current founder
82nd percentile
Investor381Current investor
100th percentile
Combined
Solo capitalist GP at Recursive Ventures with two portfolio IPOs and Deel, Honeybook, Placer.ai
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Exits & Outcomes · 97th percentile
- Portfolio unicorn: Deel (still-private, $12B+ valuation).
- Portfolio unicorn: Honeybook (private, $2.4B valuation).
- Portfolio unicorn: Placer.ai (private, $1B+ valuation).
- Portfolio acquisition: MileIQ acquired by Microsoft (reported >$100M).
- Portfolio acquisition: Flow Security acquired by CrowdStrike (reported ~$200M).
- Portfolio acquisition: Automatic Labs acquired by SiriusXM.
- Portfolio acquisition: Tile acquired by Life360.
- Portfolio acquisition: Siftery acquired by G2 Crowd.
- Portfolio acquisition: Armory acquired by Harness.
- Portfolio acquisition: Zendrive acquired by Intuit/Credit Karma.
- Portfolio acquisition: Watchful acquired by Thoughtworks.
- Portfolio acquisition: Birdi acquired by Luma.
- Portfolio acquisition: Raise.work acquired by JLL.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)54,963 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Founder & General Partner of Recursive Ventures, a Silicon Valley seed fund.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for Itamar Novick as an investor — a notability threshold.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Featured TechCrunch author with multiple bylines — demonstrates domain expertise and thought leadership in early-stage VC.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Recursive Ventures was co-founded with a team of supporting partners.
Investor score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Active GP / fund manager running Recursive Ventures, confirmed by SEC Form D as named related person on Recursive Ventures III, L.P.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and seasoned early-stage VC.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Over 15 years of investing experience, from Morgenthaler Ventures.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Two portfolio IPOs: Life360 (ASX:360) and Credible.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Has supported over 50 successful startups across pre-seed and seed (portfolio of 100+ companies per Recursive Ventures).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Portfolio unicorn: Deel (still-private, $12B+ valuation).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Selected as Business Insider Top 100 Global Seed Investor for 2021–2024.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio unicorn: Honeybook (private, $2.4B valuation).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio unicorn: Placer.ai (private, $1B+ valuation).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio acquisition: Tile acquired by Life360.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio acquisition: MileIQ acquired by Microsoft (reported >$100M).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Solo capitalist profile featured across multiple investor podcasts and publications (NFX Signal, TechCrunch, capdup, sarah-chen) — recognition for the solo-capitalist GP model.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio acquisition: Automatic Labs acquired by SiriusXM.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio acquisition: Armory acquired by Harness.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio acquisition: Flow Security acquired by CrowdStrike (reported ~$200M).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio acquisition: Siftery acquired by G2 Crowd.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio acquisition: Zendrive acquired by Intuit/Credit Karma.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Portfolio acquisition: Watchful acquired by Thoughtworks.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Portfolio acquisition: Birdi acquired by Luma.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Portfolio acquisition: Raise.work acquired by JLL.
What you likely need
You're an active solo capitalist running Recursive Ventures with a 100+ company portfolio, two IPOs (Life360, Credible), and several unicorn-trajectory bets (Deel, Honeybook, Placer.ai). The events that move the needle for you are intimate dinners with other top-tier solo GPs and seed funds, plus high-signal founder access for first-check AI deals. Use Festival to deepen co-investor syndicates for Recursive Ventures III and surface the next wave of AI founders before they're broadly marketed.
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 solo capitalist GP dinner with other one-person fund managers (NFX Signal–ranked) to swap deal flow and LP intros for Recursive Ventures III.
- fundraisingAn invite-only office hours with stealth AI founders raising pre-seed/seed, matching Recursive Ventures' 'first check to AI founders' thesis.
- fundraisingAn LP roundtable with family offices and emerging-manager-focused fund-of-funds to support the next Recursive Ventures fund close.
- introsA Life360 alumni happy hour to reconnect with former colleagues now building or investing across IoT, mobile, and family-tech.
- positioningA small TechCrunch Disrupt VC dinner alongside the 'Investor Insights' roundtable you co-host with Brian Sparkes.
- tacticalA roundtable with Data & AI founders (Akash, SafeGraph, Cherre alumni) to pressure-test 2026 portfolio construction in AI infrastructure.
- introsA mixer with recently-exited founders (CrowdStrike/Flow Security, Harness/Armory, Life360/Tile) looking for first-check support on their next companies.