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56th percentile
Two-time YC founder (Lever S12, Smartcuts W21) now building at seed stage
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Smartcuts.
- Y Combinator W21 alum via Smartcuts.
- Past co-founder of Lever (YC S12).
- Smartcuts and Lever both had co-founders.
Relationship Matrix
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator W21 alum via Smartcuts.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of Smartcuts.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past co-founder of Lever (YC S12).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)GitHub account @bnoguchi confirmed as Brian Noguchi's account.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder on GitHub with 86 public non-fork repositories.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @bnoguchi has been active for over 17 years (created December 2008).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Smartcuts and Lever both had co-founders.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal moment with Smartcuts — strong backers, a lean team, and a Series A on the horizon, but you need the right rooms to accelerate distribution, close the round, and sharpen your public narrative. Festival events that put you in front of Series A leads, enterprise no-code buyers, and senior growth talent will move the needle fastest. Your dual YC alumni status and the Lever exit story are underleveraged assets that the right dinners and roundtables can help you activate.
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 W21 founder dinner for founders actively running Series A processes, to compare notes on round structure, lead investors, and how to translate strong backer logos (SignalFire, HOF Capital) into disclosed traction signals
- fundraisingA SignalFire and HOF Capital portfolio founder roundtable to get warm introductions to Series A leads already familiar with your cap table and to pressure-test Smartcuts' fundraising narrative with investors who know the space
- introsA YC S12 and W21 serial founder dinner connecting Lever and Smartcuts alumni to trade warm intros to enterprise distribution partners who can accelerate no-code automation adoption inside mid-market and enterprise orgs
- positioningA no-code and workflow automation happy hour with ops, RevOps, and IT buyers from mid-market companies, so Brian can stress-test Smartcuts' positioning against Zapier and Make and surface the distribution wedge worth leading with in press
- tacticalA dinner with founders from Firebase, HubSpot, FitBit, and Segment — all in Brian's investor network — to coordinate a Product Hunt launch campaign and line up day-one upvotes, user signups, and social amplification
- tacticalA Product Hunt launch prep roundtable for YC W21 founders who have run top-10 launches, to help Brian build a coordinated Smartcuts campaign with sequenced outreach, maker comments, and a press hook tied to the Lever exit narrative
- hiringA YC network hiring dinner for founders at the 4-to-10 employee inflection point, focused on recruiting a senior growth or product hire, with warm candidate referrals from the Firebase, Lyft, and Segment founder network
- positioningA serial founder positioning roundtable for YC alumni with credible prior exits, to help Brian sharpen the Lever-acquired-by-Employ-Inc story into a TechCrunch or Product-focused profile pitch that differentiates Smartcuts from the crowded no-code field