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Segment co-founder ($3.2B Twilio exit) now building Wildfires.org and backing climate startups
Credibility
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- Segment was acquired by Twilio for approximately $3.2 billion in 2020.
- Past co-founder of Segment, which was acquired by Twilio in 2020.
- Segment raised a total of $300M across 6 funding rounds, including a $175M Series D in 2019.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Segment was acquired by Twilio for approximately $3.2 billion in 2020.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator S11 alum — Segment was part of the YC Summer 2011 batch.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past co-founder of Segment, which was acquired by Twilio in 2020.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Segment was co-founded with Peter Reinhardt, Ian Storm Taylor, and Calvin French-Owen.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Wildfires.org, an active non-profit R&D company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Segment raised a total of $300M across 6 funding rounds, including a $175M Series D in 2019.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)1,609 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Google maintains a knowledge panel for Ilya Volodarsky as co-founder of Segment.io, Inc.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Partner at Convective Capital, a venture capital firm funding startups to solve the wildfire crisis.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor focusing on Seed and Series A-stage companies.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Active GP / fund manager as a Partner at Convective Capital, an early-stage VC firm.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 3 years of investing experience as a Partner at Convective Capital since 2022.
What you likely need
As a $3.2B-exit YC S11 founder now building Wildfires.org and investing via Convective Capital, you sit at the intersection of deep technical founder credibility and climate-tech investing. You'd benefit most from events that connect you with other mission-driven founders tackling hard climate and infrastructure problems, as well as fellow YC alumni who can accelerate Wildfires.org's growth and government partnerships. Investor-side roundtables focused on climate and deep-tech deal flow would also sharpen your edge at Convective Capital.
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 S11/S12 founder dinner for warm intros to climate-tech and deep-tech seed funds actively deploying in 2025–2026.
- introsA climate-tech investor roundtable with GPs from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Congruent Ventures to share deal flow and co-invest opportunities for Convective Capital.
- tacticalA tactical workshop with founders who have successfully navigated federal and state agency partnerships to accelerate Wildfires.org's government contracts and grant pipeline.
- hiringA Segment / Twilio alumni happy hour to recruit senior engineers and product leaders for Wildfires.org's hardware and software R&D team.
- positioningA dinner for founders who have had $1B+ exits and are now building mission-driven second acts, to share playbooks on non-profit R&D structures and impact measurement.
- positioningA positioning roundtable with other data-infrastructure founders to sharpen Winding AI's go-to-market narrative against the current AI data-platform landscape.
- tacticalAn angel syndicate office hours session with other post-exit founders turned investors to compare notes on Seed-stage diligence frameworks for climate and hard-tech bets.