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At 19, founder

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At 19, founder

☆ Watch
fresh · evidence today 6 sources no confidence data
42.9/100
Venture signal
scored above 20% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    UNKNOWN (not a soft no, never counted as qualified). Blocker: No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    Venture backing: not found · Stage band: UNKNOWN — No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    • techcrunch.com ↗ — Reported round: stage="unknown", amount=n/a, announced 2026-10-05.

    What would overturn this:

    Assessed 2026-10-24 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$11M
2026-10-05
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
not checked
homepage

Composite signal v0 12 ±23 · 2 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. 2 signals in the last 60 days back this number.

Traction

Current round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_recency (19% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

4 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
43/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
4/100
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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
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Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Market & funding stage 1 of 3 signals present ▾
Funding stage
not provided
Lifecycle stage
not provided
Latest round stage
unknown observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-10-05 unknown · $11M

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 42.9/100 for at-19-founder, composed from 2 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.9382 0.1876
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.2166 0.065

Evidence this score rests on

Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI ↗
  2. rumor At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI ↗
  3. reported $11M reported (unknown) ↗

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$11M unknown
announced 2026-10-05 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-10-05
Money moved on or after
2026-10-05
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-10-05 by its own source.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk high · 0.52

Gray-market attention, not quality. 2+ HN mentions (peak 1 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: 2 recent unverified rumors circulating · no primary-source corroboration. ▲ 1 At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI 2026-10-06 ↗

Raw observations 191 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
common_name At 19, founder observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.90
community.hn.max_points 775 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.max_points 1 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 2 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980142", "title": "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI", "points": 1, "created_at": "2026-10-06", "evidenc observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-06 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980142", "title": "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI", "points": 1, "created_at": "2026-10-06", "evidenc observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-06 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980142", "title": "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI", "points": 1, "created_at": "2026-10-06", "evidenc observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-06 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980142", "title": "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI", "points": 1, "created_at": "2026-10-06", "evidenc observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-06 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33062606", "title": "Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living", "points": 775, "created_at": "2022-10-03"} observed artifact ↗ 2022-10-03 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980142", "title": "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI", "points": 1, "created_at": "2026-10-06"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-06 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980142", "title": "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI", "points": 1, "created_at": "2026-10-06"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-06 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980142", "title": "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI", "points": 1, "created_at": "2026-10-06"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-06 normalized 0.20
funding.round.amount_usd 11000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-05 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-10-05 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-05 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-05 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/at-19-ghost-founder-raises-11-million-to-build-a-3499-computer-for-your-personal-ai/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-05 normalized 0.90
funding.round.stage unknown observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-05 normalized 0.90
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