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Founder370
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Investor42
79th percentile
YC S11Serial FounderUnicorn FounderAcquiredRaised $200M+500+ EmployeesAngel Investor
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Technical Depth · 90th percentile
- Most recent public GitHub push was approximately 436 days ago (about 14 months), within the last year but not the last 90 days.
- Active GitHub builder with 46 public non-fork repositories.
- GitHub account @ivolo confirmed as Ilya Volodarsky's account by name and bio match.
- GitHub account created in 2011, making it over 13 years old.
- Top GitHub repo 'go-image-to-ascii' has only 12 stars, below the 100-star threshold for log-scale points.
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- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Segment was acquired by Twilio for $3.2B in 2020.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past co-founder of Segment, the customer data platform.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Segment was a Y Combinator Summer 2011 company.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current co-founder and CEO of Wildfires.org.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)GitHub account @ivolo confirmed as Ilya Volodarsky's account by name and bio match.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Segment was co-founded with Calvin French-Owen, Peter Reinhardt, Jean Lafleur, and Ian Taylor.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active GitHub builder with 46 public non-fork repositories.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account created in 2011, making it over 13 years old.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Top GitHub repo 'go-image-to-ascii' has only 12 stars, below the 100-star threshold for log-scale points.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Segment raised $300M in total venture funding across its lifetime.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Most recent public GitHub push was approximately 436 days ago (about 14 months), within the last year but not the last 90 days.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Segment (segment.com) is ranked #8,809 in the Majestic Million.
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of climate tech and healthcare startups.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Partner at Convective Capital, a venture capital firm funding wildfire-focused startups.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has made 6 angel investments per Tracxn portfolio data.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has been investing since approximately 2022, giving roughly 3 years of investing experience.
What you likely need
Ilya is a high-signal serial founder with a landmark $3.2B exit (Segment to Twilio) and is now building Wildfires.org, a non-profit R&D venture in climate tech. He's also an active angel investor and VC partner at Convective Capital, giving him a dual founder-investor profile. His immediate priorities likely center on scaling Wildfires.org's impact, fundraising for the non-profit, and leveraging his network to attract top technical talent.
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- fundraisingPursue government grants (USDA, DOI, FEMA) and philanthropic capital specifically earmarked for wildfire mitigation R&D, given Wildfires.org's non-profit structure and federal agency partnerships.
- hiringTap the YC alumni network (S11 cohort and beyond) to recruit senior engineers and hardware specialists who want to work on high-impact climate infrastructure.
- introsUse your Partner role at Convective Capital to co-invest alongside other climate-focused VCs, increasing deal flow and co-investor relationships for both the fund and Wildfires.org's ecosystem.
- positioningLean into the $3.2B Segment exit story when pitching Wildfires.org to government agencies and philanthropists — it establishes operational credibility at scale that most non-profit founders lack.
- tacticalOpen-source Wildfires.org's fuel treatment planning software tools on GitHub to attract contributor communities, accelerate adoption by federal agencies, and build public credibility for the mission.
- tacticalExpand your angel portfolio beyond 6 companies by systematically writing small checks into climate-adjacent deep-tech startups, using your Segment data-platform expertise as a differentiating value-add.
- positioningPursue high-profile media coverage (e.g., NYT Climate, Bloomberg Green) connecting your Segment data-platform background to the wildfire data problem — this narrative is highly compelling and currently underexposed.