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Founder94Current founder
86th percentile
Investor22Past investor
66th percentile
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YC W19 founder and ex-DN Capital partner now building Meridian with $17M seed
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current co-founder and CEO of Meridian, an agentic financial modeling startup founded in 2025.
- Y Combinator Winter 2019 alum via Encarte (later Canopy).
- Co-founded Encarte/Canopy with George Fang, confirming co-founder history.
- Past co-founder of Encarte (YC W19), which later became Canopy.
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Meridian raised $17M in seed funding per multiple independent press reports.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Y Combinator Winter 2019 alum via Encarte (later Canopy).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Meridian, an agentic financial modeling startup founded in 2025.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Co-founded Encarte/Canopy with George Fang, confirming co-founder history.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past co-founder of Encarte (YC W19), which later became Canopy.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently shipping public code with a most recent push 14 days ago to repo 'johnling.me'.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder with 24 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @John-Ling confirmed by name match and personal website link.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Also founded Dartmouth Venture Analysts as an undergraduate organization at Dartmouth College.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified researcher profile on OpenReview under Longitude Labs Inc (meridian.ai), corroborating technical depth.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Sourced at least 2 investments (Brigit and Chattermill) as an Investor at DN Capital from 2017 to 2019.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Approximately 2 years of investing experience at DN Capital.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Partner / Principal at DN Capital, a recognized early-stage VC firm with offices in London, Berlin, and San Francisco.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Also interned at OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage VC fund, gaining additional investing exposure.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with enterprise finance buyers and the GTM talent who already have those relationships. Tight founder dinners with other YC alumni scaling into enterprise will sharpen your Series A narrative and surface warm intros faster than cold outreach. Co-founder dynamics and role-clarity roundtables would also be high-leverage given where Meridian is in its scaling arc.
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.
- hiringA YC alumni dinner for founders who've hired their first enterprise GTM lead into finance verticals (IB, PE, FP&A) — to get warm referrals and a shortlist of candidates who already have the relationships Meridian needs
- fundraisingA pre-Series-A founder roundtable for well-funded seed-stage YC companies (W17–W22) to workshop ARR, retention, and usage-metric storytelling with founders 6–12 months ahead of you in the fundraising process
- introsA YC W19 batch dinner to unlock warm intros to finance-focused enterprise buyers and YC-backed funds whose FP&A or treasury teams are natural early Meridian customers
- tacticalA happy hour for AI-native dev-tools founders who've open-sourced a core library (e.g., parsing, data-connectors) to compare inbound hiring and developer-mindshare outcomes before Meridian pulls the trigger on open-sourcing its Excel tooling
- positioningA dinner for technical founders of agentic-AI enterprise products who've published architecture deep-dives post-TechCrunch coverage — to pressure-test Meridian's public narrative and get feedback on framing the agentic spreadsheet category before John publishes
- wellbeingA candid roundtable for 3–4 person founding teams at seed stage on explicit role clarity, vesting edge cases, and co-founder agreements — with a founder who's navigated this at a scaled enterprise company to anchor the conversation
- fundraisingAn intimate office-hours session pairing DN Capital portfolio founders with Series A investors who lead enterprise SaaS rounds, so John can leverage his VC background to get early signal on how top funds will frame the AI-native financial modeling category