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Clearco unicorn co-founder now building Boardy, an AI-networking startup
Credibility
Traction · 86th percentile
- Clearco reached an estimated ~$2B valuation as a unicorn during its 2021 funding rounds.
- Raised $11.0M for Boardy across pre-seed funding.
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Past co-founder and CEO of Clearco (formerly Clearbanc).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of Boardy, an AI super-connector startup.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2020 for building Clearbanc into a major ecommerce investor.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Boardy was co-founded with Matt Stein, Shen Sivananthan, and others.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Raised $11.0M for Boardy across pre-seed funding.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Clearco reached an estimated ~$2B valuation as a unicorn during its 2021 funding rounds.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an active angel investor with stakes in Wealthsimple, Properly, and Tulip Retail.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Over a decade of investing and advisory experience, dating back to advising Wealthsimple and Kik in 2014.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Portfolio company Surf was acquired.
What you likely need
You're a serial founder (Clearco unicorn, now Boardy) with deep ties to fintech, AI, and the Toronto/SF ecosystems. The most valuable Festival events for you right now are small, high-signal gatherings where you can pressure-test Boardy's AI-networking thesis, recruit senior AI/voice talent, and trade notes with other repeat founders building consumer + B2B AI products.
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.
- tacticalAn intimate dinner with other AI voice/agent founders to pressure-test Boardy's super-connector product roadmap and pricing models.
- positioningA repeat-founders roundtable for ex-unicorn CEOs (Clearco-tier) reframing 'what to build next' in the AI era.
- introsA Toronto–SF corridor happy hour to connect Canadian operators (Wealthsimple, Top Hat, Clearco alumni) with Bay Area seed funds.
- hiringAn AI engineering recruiting night to source founding-team-caliber voice/LLM engineers for Boardy.
- fundraisingA closed-door seed-to-Series-A fundraising workshop to map Boardy's next round against AI-native investor theses.
- introsAn angel-investor dinner with other operator-angels (Wealthsimple-circle) to co-invest in early AI deals.
- wellbeingA founder-wellbeing retreat for repeat CEOs balancing a new 0-to-1 startup with board work at prior companies.