- 1 prior venture(s) from career extraction
- prior exit: FirstIgnite
Opportunities
all opportunities ▸Internal company pages for screening and memo — not external source links.
No sourced opportunity yet — only GitHub / HN / PH / Devpost / arXiv / inbound ventures appear here (not career employers).
About
Cody is the Co-Founder and CTO of FirstIgnite: the #1 tool for university-industry collaboration. While attending UIUC, he cofounded his first startup, Convey, and pursued the venture full-time. The social listening platform predicted major elections such as Brexit and netted partnerships from political campaigns to drive outreach. He's now focused on using AI to help research institutions partner with industry—getting more breakthroughs to market.
Activation — cold outreach, not cold investment
Generates a personal note referencing this founder's actual work, inviting a real application.
▸ Add / edit details
On save, the model re-reads scraped profile text plus your investor details, then rebuilds Experience / Education (adds and removes) and refreshes the score.
Reading scraped text + your details, rebuilding career facts, updating the score. Usually 15–40s.