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56th percentile
55th percentile
YC alum and Nasdaq-exited CTO now scaling African logistics at Lori Systems
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current co-founder and CTO of Lori Systems, an active African logistics platform.
- Y Combinator S10 alum via E la Carte (now Presto).
- Lori Systems was co-founded with Jean-Claude Homawoo and Josh Sandler.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CTO of Lori Systems, an active African logistics platform.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past co-founder and CTO of E la Carte (now Presto), a restaurant technology company that went public on Nasdaq.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Lori Systems was co-founded with Jean-Claude Homawoo and Josh Sandler.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Y Combinator S10 alum via E la Carte (now Presto).
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Lori Systems has raised $46.9M in total funding from investors including Google, Delta40, and FJ Labs.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)E la Carte (now Presto) went public on the Nasdaq in 2022 and currently trades at a ~$79.7M market cap.
Investor score
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with investments including Flexpay.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Has at least one confirmed external investment (Flexpay).
What you likely need
You're a serial technical founder with a YC pedigree, an IPO exit, and a well-funded current venture scaling African logistics. The highest-leverage events for you right now are those that connect you with growth-stage capital for Lori Systems, operators who've scaled marketplace businesses in emerging markets, and technical co-founders or senior engineers who can deepen your engineering bench across East and West Africa.
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 Africa founders dinner (S10/W11 era alumni) to share playbooks on scaling logistics and marketplace businesses in emerging markets.
- fundraisingA Series B fundraising roundtable with Africa-focused VCs (Norrsken22, Enza Capital, FJ Labs) to pressure-test Lori Systems' growth narrative ahead of a next round.
- tacticalA dinner with founders who've scaled logistics or freight marketplace platforms (Flexport, Transfix, Kobo360) to exchange operational and GTM lessons.
- hiringA hiring workshop for technical CTOs building in Africa to source senior engineers and engineering leads for Lori Systems' cross-border expansion.
- introsAn MIT alumni founders meetup to reconnect with EECS peers now building or investing in deep-tech and infrastructure startups.
- positioningA positioning workshop with other Africa-focused founders recognized by WEF and TechCrunch Battlefield to sharpen Lori Systems' global narrative for international investors.
- wellbeingA small dinner for founders who've navigated a public-market exit (Nasdaq IPO) while continuing to build new ventures, to share lessons on managing dual founder identities.