Founder Festival: Kevin Liu's Profile

Welcome, Kevin Liu

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Founder31

19th percentile

Investor95

93rd percentile

Combined126

#116 on Leaderboard

First-Time FounderAngel Investor

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this founder typical investor (50th pct)

Capital Deployed · 99th percentile

Portfolio also includes Databricks and Netskope, both private unicorns with valuations exceeding $1B.

Founder score

90%Stack Overflow reputation of 1,653 falls in the 500–4,999 tier — wait, 1,653 is below 5,000 so no tier bonus applies.
90%Only 3 public repos — below the 10-repo threshold for active builder bonus.
85%GitHub account @kevinliu has been active for approximately 7 years (created 2019).
85%GitHub account @kevinliu is dormant with no public repo push activity detected.
65%GitHub account @kevinliu identified as the subject's account.
62%Currently building Salmon Labs as a new company.
55%Stack Overflow account identified for Kevin Liu with 1,653 reputation.
45%Works at Olive Technology Ventures, whose portfolio includes you.com (Majestic Million rank 11,178), earning an employee MM bonus.
40%Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 25 and 4,896 citations.
35%OpenAlex h-index of 25 (affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University) falls in the 20–49 tier.

Investor score

95%Named related person (fund manager / GP) on Invesco Venture Alpha Fund II, L.P., a pooled investment fund with $400M fund size, per SEC Form D filing.
85%Investment Director at Olive Technology Ventures, a recognized VC firm with $25B AUM (asset management arm of NYSE-listed Noah Holdings).
80%Publicly identified as an angel investor in pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies across AI, data infra, fintech, and devtools.
80%Has made at least 10 active investments including Appcues, Retool, Vise, Culture Biosciences, Doorvest, Wunderite, Hightouch, Roboflow, Seldon, and Metronome.
75%Has been investing since at least 2022 (Decent Capital), giving approximately 4 years of investing experience.
70%Portfolio includes Wiz, a private company that reached a $1B+ valuation (unicorn).
65%Portfolio also includes Databricks and Netskope, both private unicorns with valuations exceeding $1B.

What you likely need

You're a well-connected early-stage investor with a strong portfolio of unicorns and an active angel practice spanning AI, data infra, and devtools. Your founder journey with Salmon Labs is just beginning, so your immediate priority is validating the concept and building in public to establish credibility. Leveraging your deep VC network and Techstars relationships will be your biggest unfair advantage as you build.

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.

positioningShare early progress on Salmon Labs publicly — even a brief 'building in public' post on LinkedIn or X will signal momentum to your investor network and attract early users.
fundraisingFormalize your angel syndicate on AngelList (you already have a profile at venture.angellist.com/ckevinliu) to pool capital from your network and increase deal flow leverage.
introsTap your Techstars network (you helped invest in ~3,000 pre-seed companies) to find early design partners or beta users for Salmon Labs.
tacticalReactivate your GitHub account with public commits for Salmon Labs — your account is currently dormant, which undercuts your builder credibility with technical co-founders and early hires.
positioningYour FoF focus on emerging managers at Olive Technology Ventures is a differentiator — consider writing a public thesis on what you look for in emerging managers to attract inbound from new GPs.
hiringLeverage your direct portfolio (Wiz, Databricks, Retool, Roboflow) for warm introductions to technical talent who could join Salmon Labs as early employees or co-founders.
tacticalUpdate kevinliu.co with a clear description of Salmon Labs so inbound visitors from your investing profile can immediately understand your current focus.