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Founder90Current founder
86th percentile
Investor30Current investor
71st percentile
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YC-backed two-time founder and GP now building Endorsed to fight candidate fraud
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 98th percentile
- Current Co-Founder and CEO of Endorsed, an AI recruiting platform.
- Y Combinator S17 alum (Sixty).
- Featured speaker at the Recruiting Operations Conference as Co-Founder & CEO of Endorsed, a notable industry recognition.
- Past founder of Sixty, a YC-backed freelance marketplace.
- Endorsed and Sixty both had co-founders.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Endorsed, an AI recruiting platform.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator S17 alum (Sixty).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of Sixty, a YC-backed freelance marketplace.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Identified Hacker News account @davidbhead with 14 karma.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Posted 'Launch HN: Sixty (YC S17) – Freelancer Marketplaces for SaaS Companies' on Hacker News, a Show HN product launch.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Featured speaker at the Recruiting Operations Conference as Co-Founder & CEO of Endorsed, a notable industry recognition.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Active GitHub contributor with 1,101 total contributions in the trailing 12 months.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Endorsed and Sixty both had co-founders.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Over 1,101 private/restricted GitHub contributions in the last year, indicating active daily code shipping in private repos.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)David Head has deep domain expertise in recruiting technology, candidate fraud detection, and freelance marketplace operations, evidenced by detailed HN comments on North Korean hiring fraud, sanctions risk, and marketplace dynamics.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Top company-corroborated YouTube video has approximately 423,506 views, demonstrating thought-leadership reach.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Sixty raised approximately $245K in total funding across two prior rounds.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Identified GitHub account @davidhead with confirmed name match.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Active GP / fund manager on Red Ride Car Wash Fund I, L.P., a pooled investment fund with a $25M fund size, per SEC Form D filing.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Named related person (fund manager) on Red Ride Car Wash Fund I, L.P. per SEC Form D, confirming an active GP role at a pooled investment fund.
What you likely need
You're a two-time founder with a YC S17 pedigree building Endorsed, an AI recruiting platform targeting candidate fraud — a timely and defensible niche. Your background spans recruiting tech, marketplace operations, and now fund management, making you well-positioned for events that bridge early-stage fundraising, HR-tech product strategy, and operator networks. Connecting with other YC alumni founders and HR-tech investors would accelerate both your fundraising and your go-to-market.
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 S17/S18 founder dinner in SF for warm intros to seed and Series A investors actively backing AI-native HR-tech companies.
- positioningA roundtable with founders building AI-powered recruiting and workforce tools to pressure-test Endorsed's fraud-detection positioning against competing approaches.
- introsA District community dinner with fellow founding members to leverage the $30B+ collective company value network for enterprise customer intros at companies like Astranis and Life360.
- tacticalA tactical workshop with other HR-tech founders on enterprise GTM playbooks — specifically land-and-expand strategies for recruiting platforms targeting mid-market and Fortune 500 buyers.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with seed-stage investors focused on AI SaaS to sharpen Endorsed's fundraising narrative around candidate fraud as a compliance and liability risk.
- hiringA hiring-focused dinner with YC-backed founders who recently scaled from 3 to 10 employees, to get tactical advice on making Endorsed's first senior engineering and sales hires.
- introsA happy hour for marketplace and two-sided-platform founders in SF to share learnings on supply-demand balancing and trust/safety mechanisms relevant to Endorsed's recruiter-candidate marketplace.