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62nd percentile
YC-affiliated AI founder now building Settle, an AI-powered RFP workflow startup
Credibility
Operator · 82th percentile
- Current co-founder of Settle, an AI-powered RFP/RFI workflow startup.
- Automorphic, an AI startup Alex was associated with, was a Y Combinator S23 company.
- Past founder of Shop 4 UA, a non-profit social-tech startup promoting local Ukrainian businesses.
- Settle was co-founded with at least one other person, confirming a co-founder relationship.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active builder on GitHub with 23 public non-fork repositories.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @Niklex21 is confirmed as Alex Nikanov's account, matching his name and bio.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account has been active for approximately 9 years, created in July 2016.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Most recent public GitHub push was 219 days ago, within the last year.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Past founder of Shop 4 UA, a non-profit social-tech startup promoting local Ukrainian businesses.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current co-founder of Settle, an AI-powered RFP/RFI workflow startup.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Settle was co-founded with at least one other person, confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Automorphic, an AI startup Alex was associated with, was a Y Combinator S23 company.
What you likely need
You're at the stage where the right room matters more than almost anything else — a warm intro to a pre-seed investor or a YC alum who can vouch for you is worth months of cold outreach. Festival events that put you in front of YC-adjacent founders, AI B2B investors, and early pilot customers will do the most work for you right now. Focus on gatherings where you can sharpen your Settle pitch, stress-test your dual-role narrative, and start building the public founder identity that makes investors and co-founders want to find you.
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 YC S23 alumni dinner (anchored by your Automorphic network) for warm intros to pre-seed investors actively backing AI-powered B2B workflow tools
- introsA roundtable for first-time founders currently prepping YC applications, where you can workshop your Settle narrative and get candid feedback from founders who've been through the process with a warm referral
- tacticalA dinner for procurement and ops leads at mid-market companies actively running RFP and RFI processes, so you can pressure-test Settle's AI product and convert 1-2 attendees into paying pilot customers
- introsA San Francisco happy hour for early-stage founders building in tax, fintech, and back-office automation — the exact peer group where your Settle co-founder story and dual-role clarity will get sharpened by people who've navigated the same questions
- positioningA build-in-public meetup for SF-based technical founders who've open-sourced tools from their startups, where you can get accountability and distribution advice for launching your Settle or Fifteenth utility to grow past 26 GitHub followers
- tacticalAn intimate office hours session with investors who've written pre-seed checks to founders carrying a simultaneous founding-engineer role, so you can stress-test and tighten your primary-commitment narrative before your first Settle fundraising conversations
- positioningA workshop for early-stage founders with existing press hits (think WCVB, Boston Pilot-tier coverage) on turning earned media into a written case study or blog post that compounds into investor and co-founder credibility