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Top University

Graduate of top ~30 undergraduate and graduate programs

Princeton
Columbia
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yale
Stanford
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
California Institute of Technology
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
UCLA
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
Carnegie Mellon University
University of North Carolina
University of Oxford
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The Wharton School
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Top Company Alum

Alumni of a highly pedigreed company

Airbnb
VMware
Cruise
Tesla
Uber
Reddit
Pinterest
Lyft
Plaid
DoorDash
Tinder
Twilio
SpaceX
Robinhood
Twitter

Chime

Instacart

Rivian

Beyond Meat

Coinbase

Shopify

Stripe

Benchling

​[Updated] Major Tech Company Experience

Alumni of any FAANG company or other modern-day tech giants

Facebook

Amazon

Apple

Netflix

Google

Microsoft

LinkedIn

Salesforce

Snap

Stripe

Ramp

Brex

Vouch

Rippling

Samsung

Nvidia

Hubspot

Palo Alto Networks Atlassian

Intuit

Box

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Twilio

Slack

Twitch

Figma

Zoom

Zscaler

Workday

Paypal

Notion

Zapier

Airtable

Snyk

Snowflake

Palantir

Databricks

Loom

Dropbox

[New] Top AI Experience

Experience at leading AI companies

OpenAI

Anthropic

Deepmind

NVIDIA

Palantir

Cohere

IBM Watson

Scale AI

[New] Top Web3 Experience

Experience at leading Web3 companies

Coinbase

Open Sea

Magic Eden

Dune Analytics

Dapper Labs

FTX

​[Updated] Legacy Tech Company Experience

Alumni of a historically successful tech company (ex. Cisco, IBM)

Intel
SAP
Cisco
Oracle
GE
Electronic Arts (EA)
Boeing
HP
IBM

Airbus

Samsung

Servicenow

Adobe

​[Updated] Elite Industry Experience

Prior position in an “elite” company (consulting, banking)

BlackRock
Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stanley
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Deloitte
Bain
Accenture
McKinsey & Company
IDEO
EY-Parthenon
Booz Allen Hamilton
Deutsche Bank

Ernst & Young

Current Student

Founder, executive, or operator is a current student

Seasoned Founder

Current founder who was a prior founder at a company with 100+ people

Seasoned Executive

Prior executive position at a company with 100+ employees

Seasoned Operator

Prior director, manager, or head position at a company with 150+ people

HBCU Alum

Graduate of one of 99 HBCUs

Major Research Institution Experience

Phd recipient from a major research institution

Deep Technical Background

Masters, PhD or technical background of tech fields including computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, chemical engineering, and more.

Seasoned Adviser

A role type of Adviser for at least 9 months at a company with 100 or more headcount

Free Agent

Someone who currently holds no role at any company.

Prior VC Backed Founder

Current founder who was a prior founder experience at a company that raised under $5M.

Prior VC Backed Executive

Prior exec experience at a company that raised any amount of funding.

Prior Exit

Prior exec/founder experience at a company that was acquired

$5M - $100M Club

Current founder with prior founder experience at a company that raised X+ million dollars. Highlight is in increments of 5 and rounds down (ex. $7M raised = $5M Club, $43M raised = $40M Club). Highlight kicks in at $5M (anything below is “Prior VC Backed Founder”)

Founder Turned Operator

VC-backed former founder with current role type of ‘operator’

Stealth Founder

Founder working on something new

Jack Of All Trades

Discover talent that has spent significant time working in three or more distinct departments