Vetted Co-Founders in New York

“Repeat startup co-founder with multiple successful exits and significant fundraising experience (most recent raise $6M USD; prior raise £10M GBP). Interested in roles bridging investors and startups—performing due diligence and evaluating MVPs/USPs to help firms invest in the right companies and support portfolio growth toward exit.”

Andrew Chang

Screened

Executive operator and startup investor specializing in FinTech, crypto, and regulated blockchain

New York, NY22y exp

“Former COO of Paxos who joined near inception and helped scale the company to a $2.4B valuation, owning operations across nearly all functions and implementing core operating systems like OKRs and decision frameworks. Now advises and coaches early-stage founders through Lynx Collective (NYC startup community he founded), teaches a Startup Executive Bootcamp, serves as an NYU Stern adjunct professor, and sits on a public company board.”

“Freelance CTO with a track record of founding and building early web products, including an award-winning baby website creation platform that was acquired by eStyle after gaining traction via retail/mail-order distribution and PR. Also built a sports event text-alert product, engineering around missing data APIs via a replaceable scraping layer.”

“Embodied AI/robotics ML engineer with hands-on experience deploying POMDP-based reinforcement learning controllers on real mobile robots and vehicle fleets. Strong in sim-to-real robustness (domain randomization) and production rollout practices (HIL, shadow-mode, canaries, safety instrumentation), and has published related work (mentions a NeurIPS paper).”

“Co-founded and led the business side of Plasma Nutrition for a decade, commercializing atmospheric-plasma technology to improve protein efficacy/absorption. Bootstrapped for 5 years before raising venture funding, leveraged FoodX accelerator validation, and navigated a major go-to-market pivot (B2C to B2B). Drove growth by renegotiating out of an exclusive manufacturing arrangement and scaling to roughly six brand partners within a year.”

“Built Bargain Bricks end-to-end as a solo creator, handling product ideation, design, backend, APIs, website, and native iOS/Android apps. They actively maintain and iterate on the product, which has over 1,000 downloads, and have improved conversion through UI changes that surfaced the best deal above the fold.”

Jordan Roga

Screened

Director-level Business Operations & Finance leader in venture capital and early-stage tech

New York, NY10y exp

“Operations/program leader with experience at Open Core Ventures driving cross-functional initiatives across content/engineering and legal/tax operations. Built systems-heavy process improvements (public handbook + SOP frameworks, DRI accountability) and delivered measurable outcomes like +30% Hacker News front-page frequency and ~80% faster company formation.”

“Solo-built and launched an AI logo generator SaaS in ~2 months using React/Next.js/TypeScript with managed auth and payments, deploying via Vercel/GitHub CI/CD. Also has hands-on AWS production experience running containerized services with Terraform-managed multi-environment infrastructure and strong reliability patterns for integrations/pipelines.”