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79th percentile
YC founder behind Sendwave's $500M exit and Wave's IPO, now in civic tech
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder of a political pro-democracy startup.
- Y Combinator alumnus — Sendwave was YC-backed.
- Past founder of Wave Mobile Money, Sendwave, and Newsbrane.
- Co-founded both Sendwave and Wave with Drew Durbin.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of Wave Mobile Money, Sendwave, and Newsbrane.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Co-founded both Sendwave and Wave with Drew Durbin.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Sendwave was acquired by WorldRemit for approximately $500M in cash and stock.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder of a political pro-democracy startup.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Y Combinator alumnus — Sendwave was YC-backed.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Hacker News karma of 2,362 places @lincolnq in the 2,000–9,999 tier.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active Hacker News poster with 20 story posts under @lincolnq.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active on Hacker News as @lincolnq with 2,362 karma.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Top Hacker News post 'Facebook deleted their Python SDK repository without warning' earned 150 points.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Wave Mobile Money went public via IPO (market cap at IPO not yet confirmed).
What you likely need
You're a two-exit founder (Sendwave acquisition + Wave IPO) stepping into civic tech, so the highest-leverage Festival events connect you with your existing investor network (Sequoia Heritage, Founders Fund, Ribbit) and introduce you to mission-aligned funders in the democracy-infrastructure space. You'd also benefit from rooms that help you find a co-founder with the same complementary dynamic you had with Drew Durbin, and spaces that let you think clearly about what this new chapter is actually for before you're deep in the build.
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 seed-stage fundraising dinner with Sequoia Heritage, Founders Fund, and Ribbit Capital portfolio founders to warm up your existing LP relationships for a first check into the new pro-democracy venture
- positioningA roundtable with program officers and portfolio founders from Omidyar Network, Democracy Fund, and Knight Foundation to map non-dilutive grant and program-related investment paths alongside your VC raise
- fundraisingA YC alumni dinner for founders with two or more exits who are now building in non-traditional verticals, to pressure-test fast-track Continuity or Fellowship re-engagement for the new startup
- introsA Founders Pledge and EV UK alumni happy hour connecting mission-aligned operators and angels who are actively deploying into democracy and civic infrastructure startups
- hiringA co-founder matching dinner for technical and operator founders interested in civic tech, modeled on the Drew Durbin dynamic — complementary skill sets, shared mission, long-term partnership orientation
- tacticalAn HN top-karma founders meetup (#lincolnq, 2,362 karma) for founders publishing technical and strategic writing about early-stage civic or democracy-infrastructure startups to accelerate user and investor discovery
- wellbeingA small dinner for founders 12–24 months post-major-exit (IPO or $500M+ acquisition) who are defining what the next chapter is actually for, before re-entering growth-metric mode