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88th percentile
YC founder who sold autonomous retail startup Caper to Instacart for $350M
Credibility
Traction · 92th percentile
- Instacart (where Caper was acquired into) is ranked #5,246 in the Majestic Million, yielding a Majestic Million founder bonus.
- Caper was acquired by Instacart for $350M, representing a successful exit.
- Raised $12.7M total across founded companies, per independent sourcing.
- Named related person on SEC Form D filing for SBOT Technologies Inc. with $10.4M offering.
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Y Combinator Winter 2016 alum via Caper.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder of Caper, an autonomous retail technology company.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Caper was acquired by Instacart for $350M, representing a successful exit.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Named related person on SEC Form D filing for SBOT Technologies Inc. with $10.4M offering.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Caper was co-founded with other co-founders, confirming a co-founded company.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Raised $12.7M total across founded companies, per independent sourcing.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder of QueueHop Inc., a separate company he co-founded in 2015.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Instacart (where Caper was acquired into) is ranked #5,246 in the Majestic Million, yielding a Majestic Million founder bonus.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point — a $350M exit under your belt, deep Instacart operator credibility, and a YC network that opens almost any door. The Festival events most valuable to you right now are the ones that help you sharpen your next founding narrative, formalize your angel presence in autonomous retail, and get warm face-time with the exact VCs and co-founders who already believe in your vision.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA seed-stage founder dinner with partners from Lux Capital and First Round Capital to pressure-test a $3–5M raise narrative built around your Caper-to-Instacart acquisition arc
- hiringA YC W16 alumni roundtable dinner to surface potential co-founders and early hires for your next venture from the batch that knows your founding era firsthand
- introsAn angel syndicate happy hour for AI-commerce and autonomous retail check-writers where you can formalize your investing thesis alongside other domain-credible operators-turned-angels
- tacticalA tactical dinner for founders who exited via acqui-hire at $100M+ to map vesting cliff timelines, non-compete windows, and the exact moment to pull the trigger on your next company
- positioningA positioning workshop dinner for post-exit founders turning their acquisition story into a public thought-leadership platform — anchored around your Caper $350M narrative and Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition
- introsA YC alumni investor mixer focused on AI-powered commerce where your Caper exit gives you instant credibility to get warm intros to retail-tech-focused seed and Series A funds
- positioningA build-in-public content strategy dinner for technical founders in autonomous retail and AI-commerce who are publishing to attract co-founders and inbound investor interest ahead of their next raise