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YC W19 co-founder turned angel investor backing enterprise and defence-tech startups
Credibility
Traction · 63th percentile
- Convictional's Modern Dropship product is profitable and generating significant GMV for customers.
- Convictional raised $48.9M in total funding across multiple rounds.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Past co-founder and President of Convictional, a B2B trade network, from 2018 to 2024.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Convictional was co-founded with Roger Kirkness.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator Winter 2019 alum via Convictional.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Convictional raised $48.9M in total funding across multiple rounds.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Convictional's Modern Dropship product is profitable and generating significant GMV for customers.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Currently serving as Sr. Advisor at Blacklake and GTM Advisor at multiple active startups including AthenaHQ, Meticulous, Blacksmith, and Rootly.
Investor score
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio including Blacklake, Rootly, Greenlite, Atolio, Quandri, and Tempo Labs.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Angel investor portfolio includes at least 6 named companies: Blacklake, Rootly, Greenlite, Atolio, Quandri, and Tempo Labs.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Has been actively angel investing since approximately 2022, giving roughly 3 years of investing experience.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Also a seed investor in Rootly, an infrastructure company with $15.3M in total funding.
What you likely need
You're at a natural inflection point — transitioning from operator to recognized investor — and the events that will move the needle most are ones that accelerate LP conversations, formalize your YC network deal flow, and sharpen your public investing thesis. Dinners and roundtables with other YC angels who've made the operator-to-fund leap will give you the tactical playbook and warm intros you need fastest. Your differentiated angles (defence-tech via Blacklake, enterprise GTM depth from Convictional) are underleveraged in rooms where generalist angels dominate.
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 W19 alumni dinner for founders-turned-angels looking to formalize their deal flow into a named syndicate or micro-fund, with LP pitch feedback from established YC-affiliated fund managers
- introsA roundtable connecting YC W19/W20 alumni angels with scouts and founders from the current YC batch to build a structured co-investment pipeline and share pro-rata strategies on breakout portfolio companies
- tacticalA dinner for ex-YC founders who've completed a company exit or wind-down and are now formalizing their angel activity, sharing war stories on structuring equity-bearing advisory deals and converting operator credibility into LP trust
- tacticalA tactical roundtable for 0-1 GTM operators advising multiple early-stage enterprise companies — like Rootly, AthenaHQ, and Meticulous — on converting advisory time into equity arrangements and managing portfolio conflicts at scale
- positioningA defence-tech angel dinner bringing together investors with national security portfolio exposure — anchored by founders and advisors from companies like Blacklake — to pressure-test whether a focused defence-tech thesis can differentiate an emerging angel brand from generalist enterprise investors
- positioningA small workshop for post-exit YC founders building their investor identity in public, focused on structuring the founder-to-investor narrative — including how to document a multi-year company journey like Convictional's Modern Dropship rebrand and profitability milestone — into deal-flow-generating content
- positioningA dinner for Shopify-ecosystem operators and alumni angels to co-develop and pressure-test a structured 0-1 GTM playbook drawing on commerce infrastructure experience, with the goal of turning operator expertise into inbound advisory and deal flow
- fundraisingA happy hour for angel investors with breakout portfolio companies approaching Series A — like Rootly at $15.3M raised — to workshop follow-on investment strategies, pro-rata rights preservation, and when to lead vs syndicate into the next round