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life’s better when it’s bold, curious, and a little chaotic | building & becoming always | in service of the future | fellow omnipotentialite and friend to @KyleHudson
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"We're trying to quantify that gut instinct": Flying With Founders
JD Audena's firm has built an AI platform to evaluate founders regardless of their geographic location, addressing the challenge that great founders outside major tech hubs struggle to get noticed by investors. The platform aims to quantify the gut instinct that early-stage investors use when assessing whether a founding team can succeed.
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Summary
JD Audena's firm has built an AI platform to evaluate founders regardless of their geographic location, addressing the challenge that great founders outside major tech hubs struggle to get noticed by investors. The platform aims to quantify the gut instinct that early-stage investors use when assessing whether a founding team can succeed.
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founder-evaluation · venture-capital · ai-platform · geographic-diversity · early-stage-investing · founder-assessment · startup-ecosystem
Key entities
JD Audena (person, 0.95) · Flying With Founders (organization, 0.9) · Connetic Ventures (organization, 0.85) · AI platform for founder evaluation (technology, 0.88) · Bay Area (location, 0.95) · Kentucky (location, 0.9) · Kansas (location, 0.9) · Michigan (location, 0.9) · New York (location, 0.95) · Austin (location, 0.9) · Miami (location, 0.85) · gut instinct (concept, 0.92)
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transcript · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 27 Oct 2026