Founder Festival: Frank Macreery's Profile

Welcome, Frank Macreery

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Founder76

81st percentile

Investor0

Combined

#310 on Leaderboard

YC S14 co-founder and CTO of Aptible, acquired by Opti9

• Professional:YC S14 First-Time Founder Acquired Raised $20M+10+ Employees

Credibility

this founder typical founder (50th pct)

Traction · 78th percentile

Current co-founder and CTO of Aptible, which was acquired by Opti9 Technologies.
Named related person on SEC Form D for Conveyor Inc., confirming current operator role.
Aptible raised $24M in total funding across 5 rounds.
Aptible was acquired by Opti9 Technologies (acquisition price undisclosed).

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Founder score

95%Current co-founder and CTO of Aptible, which was acquired by Opti9 Technologies.
95%Named related person on SEC Form D for Conveyor Inc., confirming current operator role.
95%aptible.com ranks #507,877 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
95%Active builder with 114 public repos on GitHub.
95%GitHub account @fancyremarker confirmed as Frank Macreery's account.
95%GitHub account has been active for over 15 years (created November 2009).
90%Y Combinator S14 alum — Aptible was part of YC Summer 2014.
90%Active on GitHub in the last year — most recent public push was approximately 308 days ago to repo 'slack-emoji-exporter'.
90%Aptible was co-founded with Chas Ballew.
90%Identified Hacker News account @fancyremarker with 37 karma.
85%Aptible raised $24M in total funding across 5 rounds.
80%Aptible was acquired by Opti9 Technologies (acquisition price undisclosed).
65%Wikidata / biography.wiki entity exists for Frank Macreery, confirming public notability.
60%Identified as a package maintainer on RubyGems.org under the handle fancyremarker.
55%Identified Stack Overflow account for Frank Macreery.

What you likely need

You're a technical founder with a rare combination of YC pedigree, a clean acquisition story, and deep compliance-infrastructure expertise — Festival events should help you convert that into inbound deal flow, angel credibility, and a stronger public signal. The highest-leverage gatherings for you are intimate dinners with YC S14 peers and regulated-tech investors who already speak your language, plus working sessions where you can workshop your Aptible-to-Opti9 narrative into a positioning asset. You'll get the most out of small, high-trust rooms where your operator depth is the differentiator, not a credential you have to explain.

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.

introsA YC S14 founder dinner to reactivate batch relationships and surface co-founder leads, early design-partner intros, or angel checks for Frank's next compliance-infrastructure venture
fundraisingA roundtable for operator-angels writing first checks into HIPAA and regulated-tech startups, where Frank can pressure-test a formal angel thesis alongside peers like Pager, Ro, and Devoted Health founders
positioningA founder dinner for YC-backed founders who have navigated acqui-hires or small-exit M&A, where Frank can workshop his Aptible-to-Opti9 story into a public post-mortem with peers who've lived the same arc
tacticalA happy hour for founders and engineers open-sourcing internal security and compliance tooling — think Semgrep, Drata, and Vanta alumni — where Frank can get tactical feedback on releasing Aptible's AI security scanner to maximize GitHub traction
fundraisingAn office-hours session with seed and Series A investors actively writing checks into HIPAA, FedRAMP, and AI-compliance infrastructure, so Frank can test his operator-to-investor positioning and get warm looks at live deals
positioningA YC CTO dinner for technical co-founders who have scaled and sold a product, where Frank can build credibility as an advisor and angel in the compliance-tech ecosystem alongside peers from similarly sized YC outcomes
tacticalA working session for founders and practitioners publishing long-form technical content on AI and HIPAA compliance, where Frank can turn his existing LinkedIn posts into a dev.to series or blog strategy with distribution feedback from peers already driving SEO inbound
positioningA happy hour for YC-pedigreed founders who are formalizing public advisor or angel roles at early compliance and trust-infrastructure startups — a natural room for Frank to clarify and amplify his Conveyor Inc. involvement as part of a broader operator-investor narrative