Founder Festival: Brendan Falk's Profile

Welcome, Brendan Falk

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Founder61

74th percentile

Investor0

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#396 on Leaderboard

YC founder who sold Fig to AWS, now building Hercules AI app builder

• Professional:YC S20 Serial Founder Acquired Raised $2M+

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this founder typical founder (50th pct)

Operator · 74th percentile

Current founder and CEO of Hercules (hercules.app), an AI-powered app and website builder.
Y Combinator Summer 2020 alum via Fig.
Fig was co-founded with Matt Schrage, confirming Brendan has co-founded companies.

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Founder score

99%Y Combinator Summer 2020 alum via Fig.
99%Past founder and CEO of Fig, a developer tools company acquired by Amazon Web Services in 2023.
99%GitHub account @brendanfalk is verified as Brendan Falk's account, with bio confirming 'Founder @ Hercules. Prev: Fig (acq by AWS)'.
99%Fig was acquired by Amazon Web Services in August 2023; acquisition price was undisclosed (floors to minimum exit credit).
97%Current founder and CEO of Hercules (hercules.app), an AI-powered app and website builder.
95%Most recent public push on GitHub was 129 days ago to the repo 'mintlify-starter', within the last year but beyond 90 days.
95%Fig was co-founded with Matt Schrage, confirming Brendan has co-founded companies.
95%Brendan has 82 public non-fork repos on GitHub, well above the 10-repo threshold for an active builder.
95%GitHub account @brendanfalk has been active for approximately 12 years, created in July 2013.
95%GitHub account @brendanfalk has 182 followers, below the 1,000-follower threshold for a following bonus.
95%The highest-starred non-fork repo on @brendanfalk's GitHub has only 1 star, below the 100-star minimum for top-repo points.
90%fig.io is ranked 108,451 in the Majestic Million, yielding floor.
75%Fig raised $2.4M in total funding per Crunchbase records.
60%Hercules reports millions of revenue with 150k+ users and is currently generating meaningful revenue as a current company.

What you likely need

You're at an inflection point where Hercules has real revenue and users but needs institutional capital and senior talent to scale before the AI-native builder market consolidates. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are intimate fundraising dinners with AI-focused seed and Series A investors, warm-intro sessions through your YC S20 and AWS alumni networks, and small positioning roundtables with other build-in-public founders who've converted traction into press-cited milestones. A deliberate wellbeing gathering with other post-exit founders navigating their second company would also give you rare peer support at a critical stage.

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 S20 founder dinner focused on AI-native developer tools fundraising, where you can trade warm intros to seed and Series A investors alongside batchmates who've recently closed rounds
introsA General Catalyst portfolio founder roundtable on AI product-led growth, giving you a natural re-entry point to deepen your existing backer relationship and surface intro paths to their co-investors in AI-native builder tools
tacticalA dinner for founders who've closed AWS Marketplace co-sell agreements or navigated post-acquisition AWS relationships, so you can map a concrete distribution path for Hercules using your internal Fig-era AWS contacts
positioningA build-in-public roundtable with AI founders who've published transparent revenue milestones on X or HN, to workshop how Hercules' 'millions in revenue' moment gets framed into a press-citable, investor-legible post
fundraisingAn intimate Series A investor dinner focused exclusively on AI-native dev-tools and no-code builders, where your Fig → AWS exit and 150k-user Hercules traction make you one of the most credentialed founders in the room
hiringA YC-alumni hiring night for post-exit founders scaling their second company, designed to surface senior full-stack engineers who specifically want to join a high-revenue, small-team AI startup at the seed-to-A stage
wellbeingA small dinner for serial founders navigating their second company post-acquisition — think ex-YC founders who've been through a major integration and are now heads-down building again — to share honest recovery and pacing strategies before the Series A sprint
tacticalA happy hour for AI developer-tools founders who've open-sourced a core product component to grow GitHub stars and distribution, where you can pressure-test which Hercules template or module would land best with the builder community