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62nd percentile
Serial founder pivoting DataPostie's $250k ARR into Tesserae, an AI slide tool
Credibility
Technical Depth · 84th percentile
- Currently shipping public code with the most recent GitHub push 35 days ago to repo 'kgaspard.github.io'.
- Current Co-Founder at Tesserae, an AI-powered slide creation tool based in London.
- Active builder on GitHub with 21 public non-fork repositories.
- GitHub account @kgaspard is confirmed as belonging to Kabalan Gaspard.
- GitHub account is over 5 years old, created in September 2017.
- Top GitHub repo 'looker-public-embed-app-template' has only 1 star, below the 100-star threshold for log-scale points.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @kgaspard is confirmed as belonging to Kabalan Gaspard.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account is over 5 years old, created in September 2017.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Top GitHub repo 'looker-public-embed-app-template' has only 1 star, below the 100-star threshold for log-scale points.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently shipping public code with the most recent GitHub push 35 days ago to repo 'kgaspard.github.io'.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current Co-Founder at Tesserae, an AI-powered slide creation tool based in London.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder on GitHub with 21 public non-fork repositories.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of DataPostie, a SaaS data-sharing platform that reached $250k ARR before pivoting.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Tesserae has at least one co-founder alongside Kabalan Gaspard.
What you likely need
You're at the sharpest inflection point of your Tesserae journey — pre-seed fundraising, early customer validation, and positioning a compelling pivot story — so the events that will move the needle most are small, high-trust rooms with UK angels, micro-VC partners, and enterprise buyers who can write cheques or sign design-partner agreements. You'll also benefit from being in the room with other serial founders who've navigated a successful pivot into a raise, and with YC alumni who can give you an honest read on your application before the next batch deadline.
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 pre-seed founder dinner with Seedcamp and Entrepreneur First portfolio partners to pressure-test Tesserae's £300k–£500k raise narrative and get warm intros to the right ticket-writers
- introsA Google Cloud and Looker alumni enterprise roundtable to surface 3–5 design-partner leads who can pay for Tesserae and provide investor-ready testimonials
- positioningA YC alumni dinner for serial founders preparing next-batch applications, where you can workshop your DataPostie-to-Tesserae pivot story and get candid feedback from founders who've been through multiple YC cycles
- positioningA happy hour for founders who hit meaningful ARR before pivoting — to workshop how to document and publish the DataPostie $250k ARR pivot story in a way that reads as execution signal rather than failure to investors
- tacticalA UK AI dev-tools open-source meetup for founders who've launched GitHub-native SDKs or libraries, to get tactical advice on launching a Tesserae-adjacent slide-generation or data-to-chart utility that drives inbound developer credibility
- hiringA small hiring dinner for early-stage enterprise SaaS founders making their first AE or SDR hire, to share playbooks on structuring comp, sourcing candidates, and handing off pipeline without losing deal momentum
- wellbeingA candid roundtable for founders running their second or third company back-to-back since 2023, focused on building weekly review rituals and energy-management systems to sustain performance through the pre-seed grind