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73rd percentile
Two-time YC founder now building Moda after co-founding Dover
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Moda.
- Y Combinator alum — Dover was in the S19 batch and Moda in W26.
- Past founder of Dover and Slab.
- Dover was co-founded alongside George Carollo and Max Kolysh.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of Moda.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator alum — Dover was in the S19 batch and Moda in W26.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of Dover and Slab.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Dover was co-founded alongside George Carollo and Max Kolysh.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Raised approximately $30.5M in total across Moda ($7.5M seed) and Dover (~$23M).
What you likely need
You're in the critical window between seed and Series A, so the highest-value Festival events for you are small, trust-based rooms where you can pressure-test your metrics story with investors who've seen AI SaaS companies scale, and get warm intros to the design and brand buyers who will anchor your early ARR. You'll also benefit from tight founder peer groups — especially other YC W26 and repeat founders — for recruiting signal and honest feedback on your 'brand-aligned, fully editable' wedge against Canva and Adobe Firefly.
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 Series A prep roundtable with General Catalyst and Pear portfolio founders who've recently closed $15–30M rounds, to pressure-test the ARR, retention, and design-agent usage metrics story you'll need for a follow-on lead
- hiringA YC W26 founding-team dinner for AI/ML and design-systems engineers actively looking for their next founding-engineer role at a seed-stage company
- introsA happy hour co-hosted with WndrCo and Dropbox and Stripe angels to surface warm intros to heads of brand and design at mid-market companies who are Moda's ideal early adopters
- tacticalA closed YC alumni roundtable for W24–W26 batch founders who need brand-consistent pitch decks and marketing assets, designed to seed Moda's 50-startup closed beta directly from Bookface
- positioningA positioning dinner for founders and operators building in the AI creative tools space to stress-test the 'brand-aligned, fully editable' wedge against Canva and Adobe Firefly with people who've fought entrenched incumbents
- tacticalA tactical GTM office hours session with Dover alumni and Figma, Notion, and Slides power-users to adapt Dover's multi-channel recruiting-orchestration playbook into a design-workflow aggregation motion for Moda
- wellbeingA small dinner for second-time YC founders who've exited a first company and are now 0-to-1 again, focused on setting sustainable working-hours boundaries before compounding fatigue sets in at the Series A grind