Vetted Co-Founders in the NYC Metro

“Three-time co-founder with experience building both bootstrapped and funded startups, including raising $150K personally and advising companies that raised $500K+ in angel and pre-seed capital. Brings unusually broad startup operating range across customer discovery, product, GTM, hiring, legal, fundraising, and VC/studio mechanics, with entrepreneurial experience dating back to childhood and multiple business exits in college.”

“Composer/music editor using Ableton Live with a precision-focused, minimal-plugin workflow and AI-assisted loudness targeting. Recently scored a high-fashion documentary featuring a past-to-present transition, using a deliberate shift from piano/strings to synth orchestration to change emotion and pacing while preserving narrative continuity. Also has experience iterating with editor/producer notes on corporate training content to maintain retention and comedic timing.”

“Product engineer/designer with founder mindset who shipped a blockchain-enabled investor group/governance platform using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Prisma/Postgres, and Temporal. Emphasizes auth-centric onboarding (SSO + embedded wallet) to make dApp UX feel more like SaaS, and brings strong reliability practices (idempotent retries, reconciliation) plus experience demoing to investors and operating in seed-stage teams (ex-Vouched).”

“Outbound-focused candidate coming from a Cushman & Wakefield internship where they built pipeline by prospecting potential office tenants through email, calls, and LinkedIn. They stand out for signal-based, highly personalized outreach to mid-market and enterprise stakeholders, with experience generating 2-4 qualified tours per week and thinking like a founding SDR around ICP design, account tiering, and repeatable cadence building.”

Gabriel Fagundes

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML & Backend Engineer specializing in AI platforms and computer vision

New York, New York6y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”

Samuel Lee

Screened

Executive Sales Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS GTM and global revenue growth

Hoboken, NJ14y exp

“Revenue/sales operations and GTM builder for early-stage startups who designs repeatable sales processes (CRM pipeline stages, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sales) and operating cadences (OKRs) to improve conversion and forecasting. Also mentors product/technical founders—e.g., through the Canadian Technology Accelerator—helping a fintech founder establish segmentation, metrics, and an outbound motion that produced early recurring revenue and investor readiness.”

Frank Albanese

Screened

Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

Avi Gottlieb

Screened

Mid-level Funding & Business Development professional specializing in SMB finance and SaaS sales

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Sales/BD professional from startup environment (Gigaspaces) who personally owned outbound motions and built multi-step, multi-channel sequences that produced record-breaking quality meetings. Uses LinkedIn Sales Navigator for targeted prospect research, prioritizes C-level decision makers, and applies A/B testing plus AI/automation to scale and improve messaging performance.”