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2x-exited YC S22 founder and CTO now building stealth AI startup in SF
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and CTO of a stealth startup based in San Francisco.
- Y Combinator S22 alum, accepted for one of the first generative AI image companies.
- Past founder with prior company experience predating the current stealth startup.
- Founded companies with co-founders, including at FirstIgnite.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Y Combinator S22 alum, accepted for one of the first generative AI image companies.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current founder and CTO of a stealth startup based in San Francisco.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account identified as Chase Brignac's at github.com/chasebrignac.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Exit: Deliv was acquired by Target.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Exit: FirstIgnite was acquired.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder with prior company experience predating the current stealth startup.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Founded companies with co-founders, including at FirstIgnite.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Identified as a model author on Hugging Face under the handle @chasebrignac.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Raised significant pre-seed funding for his YC S22 generative AI company.
Investor score
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Made at least two known investments, including Crusoe and FirstIgnite.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Invested in Crusoe, which raised $128M and operates in the energy and data center space.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in front of seed-stage investors who specifically back technical founders with prior exits, where your NASA-to-YC-to-two-acquisitions story can do the heavy lifting. Small, high-trust gatherings with other YC S22 alumni and serial founders will help you pressure-test your stealth narrative and surface warm intros before a formal raise. Curated hiring and open-source roundtables with robotics and AI infrastructure engineers round out the mix, helping you staff up without breaking focus.
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 S22 alumni dinner for founders currently raising a seed round, focused on trading warm intros to investors who back technical founders with prior exits
- positioningA roundtable for serial founders with at least one acquisition exit to workshop how to publicly document and pitch their exit narrative ahead of a new raise
- introsA dinner connecting early Crusoe investors and energy-tech-adjacent AI infrastructure funds for founders whose stealth work sits at the intersection of compute and energy
- hiringA happy hour for founders actively recruiting senior engineers with robotics or AI infrastructure backgrounds, drawing from NASA, Amazon Robotics, and national-lab alumni networks
- positioningA small workshop for stealth founders with compelling origin stories — NASA, prior YC exits, deep tech — to craft and pressure-test a targeted coming-out-of-stealth press narrative
- fundraisingAn office hours session pairing YC-backed technical founders who have prior exits with seed partners from funds known for backing repeat technical founders
- tacticalA dinner for founders who have shipped open-source DevOps or ML tooling on GitHub and want to turn community traction into hiring signal and co-founder leads
- wellbeingA candid dinner for serial founders juggling an early-stage stealth build alongside angel investing, focused on protecting execution time and avoiding context-switching debt