Vetted Co-Founders

“2x co-founder with 2+ years in venture, where they led deal sourcing and built systems to surface roughly 3,500 deals annually using relationship networks, scout programs, and AI tools. Brings a rare mix of founder experience and investor-side pattern recognition, with strong conviction around solving real, monetizable problems.”

“Unity/C# game developer with experience shipping F2P mobile systems, including loot/reward mechanics backed by probability/rarity/economy design and validated via unit tests, code reviews, and analytics instrumentation. Has implemented server-authoritative multiplayer state sync with matchmaking/RoomID flow, network variables/RPCs, and robust disconnect + reconnection state recovery.”

Aviral Pal

Screened

Principal investor and startup advisor specializing in venture capital and M&A

Global11y exp

“Entrepreneurial investor/operator who built a sector-agnostic HoldCo and secured LP commitments. Brings hands-on experience across venture capital, studios, and accelerators in roles spanning co-director, partner, venture partner, and advisor, with a focus on evaluating profitable consumer tech and consumer retail businesses, including AI-enabled opportunities.”

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.”

“Aspiring founder with strong entrepreneurial motivation, explicitly preferring control, speed, and minimal bureaucracy over joining an existing company. They have not yet started a business, but have begun researching and networking within the VC/accelerator ecosystem and use AI tools to quickly assess market opportunities.”

“Founder-operator with investor experience who has built a seed-stage company to live usage, meaningful DAUs, a large waitlist, and roughly $1.2M raised. Has operated on both sides of the startup ecosystem—as a Techstars founder raising from firms and as a VC deploying capital—and brings a rigorous, user-first approach to evaluating and scaling new ventures.”

“Seasoned entrepreneurial operator who has raised $185M across ventures in seed treatment, drone spraying, gene editing, and biofuels. Has worked closely with accelerators including AgLaunch and Iowa Startup Accelerator as both a participant and later a mentor, and is now open to either founding a new impactful company or stepping into an experienced CEO/C-suite role.”

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.”

Adam Folsom

Screened

Mid-level Venture Capital & Growth Associate specializing in startups, creator economy, and Web3 media

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Early-stage venture/product studio operator (BESO) focused on sourcing and evaluating founders and moving opportunities through diligence toward partnerships. Uses a multi-channel outbound approach (LinkedIn/X, community events, accelerators, Reddit) and builds trust by bringing market research and regulatory insights (e.g., sports tech/gambling) to founders while running a structured, CRM-driven pipeline.”

Sam Fish

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms, cloud infrastructure, and data systems

Culver City, CA5y exp

“Full-stack/product-leaning engineer who owned an end-to-end AI Tutor feature (Claude-powered) shipped simultaneously to iOS/Android/web via Expo, with Cloudflare Workers backend and PostHog analytics. Built the company’s GitHub-based CI/CD to coordinate app store releases with backend blue/green deployments. Also has significant data engineering experience (including ~8TB/day workloads) using dbt/Fivetran plus sharding and hashing-based diffing for correctness.”

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.”

Michael Jenkins

Screened

Director-level Video Editor & Producer specializing in longform YouTube storytelling

Los Angeles, CA16y exp

“Video editor/producer with a storytelling-first approach to longform YouTube, spanning both documentary-style musician content (travel/writing songs) and punchy corporate marketing for startups. Has led and mentored remote overseas freelance editors as a marketing content manager at BCG Attorney Search using rubrics/style guides, and has on-set experience as camera operator/DP for The Shade Room and Viacom YouTube content.”

Jeffery Bray

Screened

Executive Board Director & Healthcare/AI Strategy Leader

Salt Lake City, UT22y exp

“Operator-advisor with deep healthcare/pharmacy leadership: CEO of MedQuest Pharmacy for over a decade and cofounder/CEO of Vibrix Pharmacy and Vibrix Technologies. Known for architecting scalable operating models (decision rights, role scorecards, workflow mapping, communication cadences) and aligning cross-functional teams—including product/engineering/compliance—while mentoring founders through practical, low-bureaucracy systems.”

“Early-stage venture/accelerator operator and co-founder (Decade Ventures) with a systems-driven approach to high-volume founder sourcing and pipeline management. Built non-obvious dealflow channels via international trade missions and embassy networks (Canada, Israel, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia) while running a corporate accelerator at Spring (UK water-sector innovation center). Strong in founder discovery, evidence-based evaluation, and creating standardized partner updates that reduce decision friction.”

“Early-stage founder exploring an AI-driven enzyme design startup, with prior hands-on experience building an agentic platform for antibody optimization. Combines deep technical biotech/AI knowledge with a disciplined go-to-market mindset focused on bootstrapping, pilots, and validating willingness to pay before raising capital.”