Welcome, Baskar Puvanathasan

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Founder436

80th percentile

Investor31

65th percentile

Combined467
YC S12Serial FounderUnicorn FounderIPORaised $200M+1,000+ EmployeesAngel Investor

Founder Matrix

Credibility

Technical 34Traction 82Operator 84Domain 41GTM 33
this founder typical founder (50th pct)

Operator · 84th percentile

  • Current founder and CEO of BorgIQ.
  • Y Combinator S2012 alum via PagerDuty.
  • Past co-founder of PagerDuty.
  • PagerDuty was co-founded with Andrew Miklas and Alex Solomon.

Founder score

Investor score

  • 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of startup investments.
  • 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Made at least one confirmed angel investment including Stayflexi.
  • 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Has been active as an investor since 2009, representing approximately 15 years of investing experience.

What you likely need

You are a high-signal serial founder with a unicorn exit (PagerDuty IPO) and a YC pedigree, now building BorgIQ in the AI/automation space. Your primary opportunity is to leverage your founder credibility and network to accelerate BorgIQ's fundraising and go-to-market, while your angel investing activity can be formalized to compound your ecosystem influence. The combination of operator depth and investor reputation puts you in a strong position to attract top talent and capital.

Are these your current priorities?

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.

  • fundraisingUse your PagerDuty IPO track record and YC S2012 alumni network to target Series A investors who back repeat founders in the AI/automation space.
  • introsEngage the YC alumni network and YC Continuity fund for warm introductions to enterprise customers and co-investors for BorgIQ.
  • tacticalConsider formalizing your angel investing activity into a small syndicate or micro-fund to increase deal flow and signal to founders that you are a structured backer.
  • hiringRecruit from the PagerDuty alumni network for senior engineering and GTM roles at BorgIQ, where your credibility as a co-founder carries strong pull.
  • positioningPublish content on AI-driven automation and your lessons from scaling PagerDuty to IPO to build a public founder brand that attracts enterprise customers to BorgIQ.
  • tacticalLeverage PagerDuty's existing enterprise customer relationships and your personal network there to land BorgIQ's first design-partner enterprise accounts.
  • wellbeingEnsure BorgIQ's co-founder equity and decision-making structures are clearly documented early, given that co-founder dynamics were central to PagerDuty's founding story.