Tech Founders

Get 1:1 company building advice from experienced venture-backed tech founders.

Bryan Wilcox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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