Tech Founders
Get 1:1 company building advice from experienced venture-backed tech founders.
Bryan Wilcox
Co-founder & CTO – Tovala,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Wednesday
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
Panos Papadiamantis
Co-founder & CPO – PNOĒ,
Hardware & Medtech Expert
Available tomorrow
Panos Papadiamantis is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of PNOĒ, a medical equipment manufacturing which enables health professionals to provide science-backed nu...
Hardware and
medical devices
Healthcare startups
Hardware
Customer acquisition
Fundraising
Athlete partnerships
Liz Tsai
Founder & CEO – HiOperator,
Y Combinator Alum
Available on Sunday
Liz Tsai is the founder and CEO of HiOperator, a customer service-as-a-service solution company that allows businesses to handle client customer service tickets faster an...
Enterprise SaaS
advice
Sales
Customer acquisition
Fundraising
SaaS
Enterprise
Wil Eyi
CEO & Co-founder – Toolbox,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Tuesday
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
Carl Carell
Co-founder & CRO – GetAccept,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Wednesday
Carl Carell is the Co-founder and CRO of GetAccept, an all-in-one digital sales room platform helps salespeople win more B2B deals. GetAccept has raised more than $30M in...
SaaS sales and
biz dev advice
B2B sales
GTM strategy
Building sales team
SaaS products
Early-stage sales
Itay Forer
Co-founder – Cleanly,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Tuesday
Itay Forer is the co-founder of Cleanly, an on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service backed by Y Combinator (W15), Initialized Capital, Soma Capital, Paul Buchheit (cre...
B2C and
GTM advice
B2B sales
GTM strategy
Building sales team
Applying to YC
Finding PMF
Anada Lakra
Founder & CEO – BoldVoice,
Y Combinator Alum
Available tomorrow
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
Rune Hauge
CEO – Mentorcam,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Wednesday
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
Alexandra Zatarain
Co-founder – Eight Sleep,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Tuesday
Alexandra Zatarain is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Brand and Marketing at Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company. Eight Sleep solves sleep's most pr...
Consumer marketing
and GTM advice
Launching consumer tech startups
Customer acquisition
Branding & marketing
GTM and retail distribution
Athlete partnerships
Edvard Engesaeth
Co-founder – Nurx,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Friday
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
Praful Mathur
Founder & CEO – Sarama,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Friday
Praful Mathur is the founder and CEO of Sarama, a deeptech startup that uses AI to determine intent from barks i.e. crude translation. He was previously the co-founder a...
AI & deeptech
advice
Artificial Intelligence
Deeptech
Customer acquisition
Performance marketing
Organic growth
Noah Labhart
Co-founder & CTO - Veryable,
Software Engineer
Available tomorrow
Noah Labhart is the Co-founder & CTO of Veryable and Host of the Code Story podcast. He co-founded Veryable in 2016 with Mike Kinder and they have since gone on to raise ...
Product development
advice
Product development
Hiring software engineers
Product-driven growth
How to differentiate your offering
UI/UX to acquire customers and scale
Amir Tarighat
Co-founder & CEO – Agency,
Y Combinator Alum
Available on Sunday
Amir Tarighat is the co-founder and CEO of Agency, an enterprise cybersecurity startup backed by Y Combinator (W22). He is a software developer and cybersecurity expert w...
Cybersecurity and
Enterprise SaaS advice
B2B sales
GTM strategy
Acquisitions
SaaS products
YC applications
Ilya Usorov
Co-Founder & CTO – BoldVoice,
Y Combinator Alum
Available on Sunday
Ilya Usorov is the co-founder and CTO of BoldVoice, a Y Combinator-backed startup that provides accent training to non-native English speakers. He has eight years of soft...
Edtech and
technical advice
Building for scale
Making an MVP
Software development
App development
Mobile marketing
Benjamin Balazs
Co-founder & CTO – Mentorcam,
Y Combinator Alum
Available tomorrow
Benjamin Balazs is the CTO of Mentorcam. Prior to co-founding Mentorcam, Benjamin held various product engineering and designing roles. He's built apps and websites for c...
Product development
advice
Product development
Building marketplaces
Getting to PMF
Y Combinator
Remote engineering teams
Chris Yeh
Co-author of Blitzscaling,
Investor
Available next Tuesday
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
Emmie Chang
Founder & CEO – Hoo,
Y Combinator Alum
Available next Tuesday
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
T Zhu
Co-founder – Tellus,
Fintech & Real Estate-tech Expert
Available on Sunday
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
Sascha Eder
Founder & CEO – NewtonX,
Ex-McKinsey Consultant
Available next Wednesday
Sascha Eder is the founder and CEO of NewtonX, a B2B enterprise research startup that has raised $40M+ in venture capital. Prior to NewtonX, Sascha was a management consu...
Enterprise SaaS
and sales advice
Enterprise SaaS startups
Fundraising from VCs
Building sales teams
Selling enterprise products
Product-market-fit
Tyler Mayoras
Partner – Beyond Impact VC,
Foodtech Expert
Available tomorrow
Tyler Mayoras is an impact investor with over 20 years of PE experience. During that time he has invested in companies such as Boca Burger (acquired Kraft), Simple Mills,...
Foodtech and
impact advice
Impact startups
GTM strategy
Fundraising
Brand awareness
Strategic partnerships
Ryan McManus
CEO – SHARE Mobility,
Mobility Expert
Available on Sunday
Ryan McManus is the co-founder and CEO of SHARE Mobility, a transportation-as-a-service subscription for cities and businesses. The company has raised $21M from NCT Ventu...
Marketing and
fundraising advice
Mobility startups
Fundraising
Marketing
Customer acquisition
Growth hacking
Alec Lee
Co-founder & CEO – Endless
West, F&B Expert
Available tomorrow
Alec Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Endless West, a beverage startup that creates its own unique blend of wines and spirits using scientific production methods. The whi...
F&B and D2C
advice
F&B startups
GTM & distribution
Customer acquisition
Fundraising
Branding
Mahsa Rostami
Founder & CEO – Revero,
AI Engineer
Available next Friday
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
Lisa Curtis
Founder & CEO – Kuli Kuli,
Forbes 30 Under 30
Available next Friday
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
Joey Flores
Founder – Inversion Art,
Y Combinator Alum
Available on Sunday
Joey Flores is the founder and Managing Director of Inversion Art, an accelerator for artists. He has over 20 years of experience launching, growing and scaling startups....
Growth hacking
advice
Growth hacking
Y Combinator
Marketplaces
Raising from angels
Product development