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72nd percentile
CodeSignal co-founder ($500M exit) now building Modelence via YC S25
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Modelence.
- Y Combinator S25 alum via Modelence.
- Past co-founder of CodeSignal (formerly CodeFights), founded in 2014.
- Modelence was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Modelence.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator S25 alum via Modelence.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past co-founder of CodeSignal (formerly CodeFights), founded in 2014.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Raised $3M seed round for Modelence, per SEC Form D filing (largest offering $3.9M sold).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Identified GitHub account @artahian belonging to Aram Shatakhtsyan.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @artahian has been active for over 14 years (created 2011).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Co-founded CodeSignal, which reached a ~$500M valuation at its Series C.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Modelence was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
What you likely need
You're a YC S25 founder with a $500M prior exit building in the competitive AI dev-tools space, so the highest-leverage Festival events for you are intimate dinners and roundtables that accelerate Series A relationship-building with Tier 1 VCs and surface warm intros through the YC alumni network. You'd also benefit from small technical founder gatherings where you can sharpen Modelence's positioning, find senior engineering talent, and build the public developer-brand presence that drives organic adoption in the agentic dev-tools market.
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 S25 founder dinner with Tier 1 AI-focused VCs (a16z, Benchmark, Sequoia) to begin warm Series A relationship-building 6–9 months before Modelence needs the capital
- introsA YC alumni roundtable for S23–S25 AI dev-tools founders to trade design-partner leads and warm customer intros, leveraging the shared batch-network trust that accelerated your seed round
- positioningA dinner for Forbes 30 Under 30 founders who've built $500M+ companies to pressure-test how Aram should anchor the CodeSignal co-founder story in Modelence's Series A narrative and enterprise pitch
- tacticalA happy hour for YC-backed AI dev-tools and agentic-stack founders actively building open-source distribution strategies, to swap GitHub growth tactics and OSS repo credibility plays relevant to Modelence's developer adoption
- hiringA dinner for YC S25 and recent CodeSignal-network engineers to help Aram recruit 2–3 senior engineers who can own Modelence's core platform reliability and developer experience at enterprise scale
- positioningA roundtable with top technical founders and developer-tool writers publishing on the agentic development stack to help Aram sharpen a content and newsletter strategy that drives organic Modelence developer adoption
- fundraisingAn office-hours session connecting YC S25 founders with scouts and partners from Tier 1 funds actively writing Series A checks into AI infrastructure, where Aram's CodeSignal exit and Forbes 30 Under 30 credential make him a standout candidate