Founder-heavy AI crowd, with a deep engineer layer.
Found the Exa key, stored it safely, and ran keyed Exa Search across the attendee LinkedIn targets. Using high-confidence exact/handle matches, unclear dropped from 508 to 213.
Role breakdown
Updated with lnrapid + keyed Exa Search. No database writes were made.
Data status
What changed after using the Exa key and strict match-quality.
Coverage
- 882/894 have LinkedIn URLs.
- 109 successful lnrapid enrichments before RapidAPI rate/credit limit.
- 556 high-confidence Exa Search profile matches.
- 168 low-confidence Exa name-only matches were not counted in headline percentages.
- Remaining unclear/not high-confidence: 213.
Current read
- Classified profiles: 681.
- Founders/execs/investors: 465.
- Engineers/technical: 199.
- Students/junior: 7.
- Unclear/not high-confidence: 213.
Inside the 465 founder / exec / investor bucket
This parent bucket was intentionally broad. Split below separates explicit founder/investor/exec signals from ambiguous leadership-like matches. Explicit sub-signals: 321; ambiguous/no explicit founder-exec signal: 144.
Subcategory examples
Examples are high-confidence profile matches; labels are heuristic and should be used for navigation, not CRM truth.
Technical founder
Founder + investor/accelerator signal
Founder / operator (explicit founder)
Investor / VC / accelerator
Technical executive
Advisor / consultant
Product / GTM / strategy exec
General exec / leadership
Ambiguous/no explicit founder-exec signal
People to spot tonight
High-signal names from Luma + lnrapid + Exa exact/handle matches. ✦ marks enriched/search-supported examples below.
Examples by bucket
Quick calibration. ✦ means the bucket is supported by lnrapid or high-confidence Exa text.