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9th percentile
98th percentile
Super angel and Venture Partner who backed Facebook, Databricks, and Pinecone early
Credibility
Firm Standing · 91th percentile
- Active GP and solo fund manager at LucidCloud Angels, a formation-to-seed B2B software fund he runs independently.
- Venture Partner at AV8 Ventures, a recognized early-stage VC firm focused on enterprise, healthcare, and deep-tech.
- Venture Partner at Tola Capital, a recognized enterprise software and AI-focused venture capital firm.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current founder of LucidCloud Angels (angel fund/syndicate, founded 2009) and GIT100 (nonprofit).
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Venture Partner at AV8 Ventures, a recognized early-stage VC firm focused on enterprise, healthcare, and deep-tech.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active GP and solo fund manager at LucidCloud Angels, a formation-to-seed B2B software fund he runs independently.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as a super angel investor with early-stage investments in companies including Facebook, Zuora, Tenable, Cohesity, Pinecone, and others.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Over 15 years of investing experience, with LucidCloud Angels active since 2009.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Venture Partner at Tola Capital, a recognized enterprise software and AI-focused venture capital firm.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Portfolio company Tenable went public in a $3B IPO in 2018, where Shawn was an early investor.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)At least 15 named angel investments across enterprise software companies including Pinecone, Neon, Vectara, MotherDuck, Observo.ai, Databricks, and Omni.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in rooms with emerging micro-VC GPs, solo-GP-to-fund conversion veterans, and technical AI/data infrastructure founders who can sharpen your thesis and expand your LP base. Dinners and roundtables that blend Stanford network credibility with enterprise operator peers will help you formalize LucidCloud's brand and deal flow. Co-investor coordination sessions with Tola Capital and AV8 Ventures-adjacent GPs would also unlock cleaner syndication paths for your portfolio.
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.
- fundraisingA solo-GP-to-micro-VC fund formation dinner with other operators-turned-angels who have raised or are raising $5–15M vehicles, to pressure-test LucidCloud's LP pitch and fund structure
- introsA Stanford GSB and d.school founder roundtable for adjunct lecturers and faculty angels to co-design a named scout or fellowship program that formalizes student and faculty deal pipelines
- positioningAn AI/data infrastructure founder dinner with technical builders from Pinecone, Neon, MotherDuck, and Databricks-adjacent companies to sharpen and publicly stress-test your written investment thesis for inbound deal flow
- fundraisingA GIT1K angel syndicate happy hour targeting senior IT, engineering, data, and cybersecurity executives to recruit as LPs and scale check size and formation-stage influence
- positioningA LinkedIn enterprise B2B investing content roundtable with other operator-angels who have grown 25K+ follower bases, to build a coordinated publish cadence that converts Shawn's 33K followers into inbound deal flow
- positioningA portfolio track record dinner with emerging micro-VC LPs and fund-of-funds allocators where Shawn can walk through the Tenable IPO outcome and other wins to anchor LucidCloud's credibility page launch
- tacticalA closed-door tactical session with Tola Capital and AV8 Ventures GPs and venture partners to establish deal-sharing protocols and co-investment guardrails that maximize LucidCloud portfolio syndication
- introsAn enterprise SaaS operator-angel networking night with former Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Tenable executives exploring angel and syndicate investing, to expand GIT1K's bench of cyber and data LP candidates