34th percentile
YC S21 co-founder and COO scaling Synder's fintech SaaS
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current Co-Founder and COO/CRO of Synder.
- Y Combinator S21 alum with Synder.
- Co-founded Synder with Michael Astreiko.
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator S21 alum with Synder.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Co-Founder and COO/CRO of Synder.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Co-founded Synder with Michael Astreiko.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Raised $2M seed round at Synder led by TMT Investments.
What you likely need
You're at the inflection point between seed traction and a Series A raise, so the highest-leverage Festival events put you in the room with vertical SaaS fintech investors and YC growth-stage founders who've already closed that round. You also need warm intros to VP Sales talent with QuickBooks/Xero ecosystem depth and access to accountant-channel networks that can compound your inbound. Rounding it out, a small founder wellbeing dinner will help you protect the personal bandwidth you'll need to lead a raise without burning out.
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 S21 founder roundtable for growth-stage alumni who are actively building their Series A data rooms and want to pressure-test metrics, retention narratives, and investor targeting together
- introsA dinner with vertical SaaS Series A leads — specifically partners at funds like Bessemer, Canaan, and Headline who have active fintech/accounting portfolio companies — for warm intros and early signal on Synder's raise
- positioningA positioning dinner with fintech founders and finance journalists from Bloomberg and TechCrunch to workshop the 'AI explainability for finance' category narrative and stress-test it as a conference keynote and public report
- hiringA happy hour for operators and executives with deep QuickBooks and Xero ecosystem experience — ideal hunting ground to recruit Synder's first VP of Sales from a warm, high-trust setting
- tacticalA tactical dinner with founders who've scaled accountant-as-channel motions and leaders from accounting firm networks and CPE program operators to map the fastest compounding inbound partnerships for Synder
- introsA YC Bookface growth-stage founder dinner for post-S21 alumni who've closed Series A rounds in vertical SaaS or fintech, focused on sourcing warm investor intros and comparing data room structures
- wellbeingA small wellbeing dinner for YC fintech co-founders five or more years into building, to share honest frameworks for protecting personal time and energy during the grind of raise prep