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Co-founder of IceWhale Technology building ZimaOS for self-hosting
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- Current founder of IceWhale Technology, the company behind ZimaOS.
- IceWhale Technology was co-founded with Allen Shen.
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Founder score
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Current founder of IceWhale Technology, the company behind ZimaOS.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)IceWhale Technology was co-founded with Allen Shen.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)IceWhale Technology raised a Seed round (exact amount undisclosed, at least one verified raise).
What you likely need
You're at a critical inflection point with ZimaOS gaining real traction in the self-hosting space, and the right rooms can compress your fundraising and partnership timelines significantly. Festival events that put you in front of YC partners, hardware-adjacent seed investors, and open-source community builders will do the most work right now. A few well-placed dinners with founders who've navigated hardware-plus-OS fundraising or OEM distribution deals could unlock the exact intros and credibility signals your Series A story needs.
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 alumni dinner with founders who've raised on hardware-plus-OS models (e.g., System76, Framework, Oxide Computer) to pressure-test IceWhale's Seed-to-Series-A fundraising narrative
- fundraisingA roundtable with current YC partners and recent W24/S24 hardware batch founders to workshop IceWhale's YC application around ZimaOS's self-hosting traction and differentiated NAS angle
- tacticalA happy hour for open-source infrastructure founders and DevRel leads — think Homebrew, Tauri, and Umbrel community builders — to trade playbooks on converting GitHub stars into defensible active-user metrics for ZimaOS
- introsA dinner with hardware distribution and OEM partnership leads from the mini-PC and NAS ecosystem (e.g., Zimaboard resellers, ODROID, Radxa) to open ZimaOS install-base expansion conversations
- positioningA small roundtable with TechCrunch and The Verge tech reporters who cover privacy and self-hosting beats, alongside founders like Proton and Tailscale, to sharpen IceWhale's founder profile pitch around the data-sovereignty angle
- hiringA mixer with growth and developer-relations talent who've scaled open-source communities at companies like Grafana, PlanetScale, or Raycast, to recruit IceWhale's first dedicated DevRel hire
- wellbeingA candid dinner for founders running demanding parallel careers — nonprofit leadership, hardware startups, or otherwise — to share sustainable operating rhythms and burnout-prevention practices at critical growth stages