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Founder44Current founder
60th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
2x YC founder (S13, S21) and CTO-to-CEO coach with $120M+ raised
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current co-founder and CEO of Sentiyen (YC S21) and Playhouse, both active companies.
- Y Combinator alum — participated in two YC batches (S13 with Weilos and S21 with Sentiyen/Playhouse).
- Past co-founder of PeerStreet, Weilos, and Venyooz.
- Multiple companies were co-founded with other founders (PeerStreet, Weilos, Playhouse, Sentiyen).
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator alum — participated in two YC batches (S13 with Weilos and S21 with Sentiyen/Playhouse).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Sentiyen (YC S21) and Playhouse, both active companies.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past co-founder of PeerStreet, Weilos, and Venyooz.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Multiple companies were co-founded with other founders (PeerStreet, Weilos, Playhouse, Sentiyen).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)PeerStreet raised $121.9M in total funding across 7 rounds, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and others.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Weilos was acquired by Weight Watchers in 2015.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Playhouse raised $2.9M in total funding.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Uiflow (YC W21) was acquired per the YC company listing.
- 40%Probability of being accurate (40%)Self-describes as having raised $120M+ across founded companies, consistent with PeerStreet's $121.9M funding record.
- 30%Probability of being accurate (30%)OpenAlex identifies Alex Perelman as a researcher with h-index 4 and 88 citations.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of small, high-trust gatherings where your YC S13/S21 dual-alumni status opens doors to AI-focused seed and Series A investors who already respect the PeerStreet arc. Roundtables and dinners that let you sharpen your coaching brand positioning — especially around the CTO-to-CEO transition and founder burnout — would accelerate both your Sentiyen raise and your coaching inbound. Look for rooms where the line between 'founder' and 'coach' is an asset, not a liability.
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.
- introsA YC S13/S21 dual-alumni founder dinner to get warm introductions to YC-affiliated seed and Series A investors actively backing AI assistant products like Sentiyen
- fundraisingA small fundraising roundtable for YC-backed AI founders currently in a seed or Series A process, to pressure-test Sentiyen's pitch and get live feedback from founders who've closed comparable rounds in the last 18 months
- introsA PeerStreet founder and investor alumni happy hour to re-warm your Andreessen Horowitz connection and surface a direct intro to their consumer fintech or AI investment teams for Sentiyen
- positioningA founder-coach positioning dinner for operators-turned-coaches with real company exits or scale stories, to sharpen your PeerStreet CTO-to-CEO arc into a coaching brand that converts inbound leads around 'raising your next round'
- fundraisingA YC alumni office hours session focused on AI and real estate tech, where you can get direct feedback on Sentiyen's market framing from investors who've already written checks into both verticals
- wellbeingA small roundtable dinner for founders-turned-coaches who've publicly written about burnout and recovery, to trade notes on how to operationalize hard-won founder scars into a differentiated, scalable coaching practice
- tacticalA build-in-public networking night for technical AI founders actively publishing long-form founder journey content, to swap SEO and inbound lead strategies that could accelerate traffic to alexperelman.com and your coaching funnel
- positioningA candid dinner for YC alumni running two or more simultaneous ventures, to get honest peer pressure-testing on how to credibly sequence Sentiyen, Playhouse, and coaching without diluting your story to investors or clients