Kickstart your founder journey
Get 1:1 advice on starting a company from experienced startup founders.
Paul Wiltshire
Founder & CEO – Songtradr,
Entertainment Tech Expert
Available next Monday
Paul Wiltshire is the founder and CEO of Songtradr, a global B2B music licensing and rights platform that connects content producers with music creators while also provid...
Music & Entertainment
tech advice
Music tech
Media & entertainment
B2B sales
Licensing
Customer acquisition
Max Samuel
Partner – Snö Ventures,
Venture Capitalist
Available tomorrow
Max Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He has formerly worked at Thiel Capital (Peter Thiel’s investment office), Wilson Sonsini and Credit Suisse, and attended Y...
Investor pitch
feedback
Early-stage funding
Building pitch decks
Product-market-fit
Finding investors
Company formation
Dave Anderson
Partner – Beat Ventures,
Venture Capitalist
Available tomorrow
David Anderson is the founding partner of Beat Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that invests in startups reshaping the future of work. Prior to this, he was an inves...
Fundraising &
pitch advice
Fundraising strategy
Pitch deck review
Generating VC interest
B2B sales
Investor relations
Colin Rogister
Partner – Beat Ventures,
Venture Capitalist
Available tomorrow
Colin Rogister is the founding partner of Beat Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that invests in startups reshaping the future of work. Prior to Beat Ventures, Colin ...
NFT and
Web3 advice
Scaling Web3 startups
Fundraising strategy
Pitch deck review
Pitch practice
Consumer tech
Ryan Mendoza
Partner – Scrum Ventures,
Venture Capitalist
Available next Monday
Ryan Mendoza is a Partner at Scrum Ventures, a Japanese fund investing in US startups. Previously, Ryan worked at a university accelerator called PCI Ventures, where he w...
Fundraising
advice
Startup investing
Fundraising
Pitching VCs
Deck review
Accelerators
Lisa Curtis
Founder & CEO – Kuli Kuli,
Forbes 30 Under 30
Available tomorrow
Lisa Curtis is the founder and CEO of Kuli Kuli, the leading brand pioneering the superfood moringa in the US market. She began working on Kuli Kuli while in the Peace Co...
Social impact
and CPG GTM advice
Social impact
Supply chain
CPG startups
D2C marketing
Food & beverage
Anada Lakra
Founder & CEO – BoldVoice,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Monday
Anada Lakra is the co-founder and CEO of BoldVoice, a Y Combinator-backed startup that provides accent training to non-native English speakers. Anada previously worked as...
Go-to-market and
formation advice
Edtech startups
Fundraising
Y Combinator
Mobile app marketing
Early-stage growth
Bryan Wilcox
Co-founder & CTO – Tovala,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Monday
Bryan Wilcox is a co-founder and the former CTO of Tovala, a food-tech company that saves people time with a smart oven and paired meal service. Tovala has raised $70M in...
Technical and
hardware advice
Hardware
Y Combinator
Finding developers
Building an MVP
Product-driven growth
Mahsa Rostami
Founder & CEO – Revero,
AI Engineer
Available tomorrow
Mahsa Rostami is the founder and CEO of Revero, a digital health startup backed by a16z and Goodwater Capital. Her personal health transformation inspired her to found Re...
Fundraising
advice
Seed funding
Technical leadership
Recruiting
First hires
Growth hacking
Billy Bosch
Founder – ICONIC Protein,
CPG Marketing Expert
Available next Wednesday
William (Billy) Bosch is a consumer products entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience launching products, scaling into retail and e-commerce, and raising money. He i...
Consumer GTM
and sales advice
Launching consumer products
Getting into big retailers
Private equity fundraising
Branding
Customer acquisition strategy
T Zhu
Co-founder – Tellus,
Fintech & Real Estate-tech Expert
Available tomorrow
T Zhu is the co-founder of Tellus, a smart savings platform powered by real estate backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Alumni Ventures and Decent Capital. He previously founde...
Fintech and B2C
startup advice
Consumer tech
Product driven growth
Fundraising
Mobile app marketing
Scaling from 0 to 1
Abhishek Kapur
CEO – NEXT Trucking,
London Business School Alum
Available next Monday
Abhishek Kapur is the CEO of NEXT Trucking, a freight technology platform and digital marketplace connecting shippers and carriers. Abhishek brings a unique blend of glob...
Scaling and
growth advice
Private equity
Mobility
Leadership
Scaling post PMF
Business development
Jacob Jaber
Co-founder – Philz Coffee,
Investor and Forbes 30 Under 30
Available tomorrow
Jacob Jaber is the Co-Founder & Chairman of Philz Coffee. As CEO for nearly two decades, Jacob grew Philz from the original coffee shop in San Francisco's Mission Distric...
Growth and
marketing advice
Food & beverage startups
Getting into big retail
Expansion strategies
Fundraising
Marketing strategy
Emmie Chang
Founder & CEO – Hoo,
Y Combinator Alum
Available on Sunday
Emmie is a serial tech entrepreneur who is presently working on Hoo, an interactive Web3 livestream platform. She is a Y Combinator alum who previously co-founded FutureL...
Web3 advice and
pitch feedback
Your YC application
Pitch deck review
How to build Web3 projects
Pitch practice
Growth hacking
Chris Yeh
Co-author of Blitzscaling,
Investor
Available next Monday
Chris Yeh is a writer, investor, and entrepreneur who has been in the world of startups and scale-ups since 1995. Co-author of the bestselling book Blitzscaling together ...
Pitch practice
and blitzscaling
Scaling your startup
Fundraising
Growth strategy
Product-market-fit
Marketing
Wil Eyi
CEO & Co-founder – Toolbox,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Monday
Wil Eyi is the CEO and co-founder of Toolbox, a Y Combinator-backed startup building a vertical Fintech platform. The company has raised $18M in debt and equity. Prior to...
Fintech and
growth advice
Fintech startups
Pitch deck review
Generating VC interest
Pitch practice
Product-market-fit
Josh Campbell
CEO – Human Improvement,
Former Starbucks Executive
Available tomorrow
Josh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplement brand Human Improvement and wine brand So Gay Rosé. Formerly a Starbucks Executive and President of cannabis we...
Brand building
and sales advice
Launching consumer products
Retail partnerships
Customer acquisition
Fundraising
Sales strategy
Edvard Engesaeth
Co-founder – Nurx,
Y Combinator Alum
Available tomorrow
Dr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-founder of telehealth startup Nurx, angel investor, startup advisor, and a former family physician. He founded Nurx to make pre...
Growth and
fundraising advice
Fundraising
Deal making
Customer acquisition
Product-market-fit
Hiring strategy
Rune Hauge
CEO – Mentorcam,
Y Combinator Alum
Available on Saturday
Rune Hauge is the co-founder and CEO of Mentorcam (YC S21), angel investor, and startup advisor. Before co-founding Mentorcam, Rune founded three different startups with ...
Seed stage
fundraising advice
Fundraising
Y Combinator
Product-market-fit
Startup sales
Growth hacking