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88th percentile
Thiel Fellow and YC alum now CTO of Keep, Canada's $88M-backed SMB fintech
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current Cofounder and CTO of Keep Technologies, an SMB fintech for Canada.
- Y Combinator W17 alum with Riley.
- Past founder of Riley Corporation (YC W17) and Swipes.
- Built Keep, Riley, and Swipes alongside co-founders.
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator W17 alum with Riley.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Cofounder and CTO of Keep Technologies, an SMB fintech for Canada.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of Riley Corporation (YC W17) and Swipes.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Built Keep, Riley, and Swipes alongside co-founders.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Tenured GitHub account active since 2012 (~14 years).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Thiel Fellow, 2017 class — $100,000 fellowship from the Thiel Foundation recognizing his technical entrepreneurship.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder on GitHub with 49 public repos.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @helsont identified for Helson Taveras.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Raised $88M across Keep Technologies in venture funding.
What you likely need
You're a technical co-founder building a venture-backed Canadian SMB fintech, with a Thiel Fellow background and YC W17 experience behind you. The most useful Festival events will pair you with peer CTOs scaling fintech engineering orgs, growth-stage fundraising rooms, and senior engineering recruiting circles. Lean into events that turn your YC and Thiel networks into warm intros for your next round and key hires at Keep.
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 W17 alumni dinner to compare scaling notes and surface warm intros to growth-stage fintech investors.
- introsA Thiel Fellows roundtable with other 2016-2018 cohort founders now running Series A/B companies.
- tacticalA small fintech CTO office-hours session focused on card issuing, ledger architecture, and compliance for cross-border SMB products.
- introsA Toronto fintech founder happy hour for Canadian SMB and cross-border banking operators to share regulator and BaaS-partner playbooks.
- fundraisingA founders-only fundraising workshop to pressure-test Keep's next-round narrative with investors who've led growth rounds in fintech.
- hiringA senior full-stack engineer recruiting night (TypeScript / Next.js / Prisma) to fill Keep's remote engineering openings.
- wellbeingA small CTO wellbeing dinner for technical co-founders four-plus years into a venture-backed company.