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35th percentile
YC S21 founder and CEO growing Synder to Series A
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Synder.
- Y Combinator Summer 2021 alum with Synder.
- Co-founded Synder with Ilya Kisel.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of Synder.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator Summer 2021 alum with Synder.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Co-founded Synder with Ilya Kisel.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Raised $3.1M in seed funding for Synder.
What you likely need
You're at a critical inflection point where the next 18 months are about converting Synder's $2M ARR and strong product into a fundable Series A story — that means getting in front of the right fintech investors, finding commercial leadership, and sharpening your Shopify ecosystem positioning. Festival events that connect you with YC S21 peers, SMB-SaaS GTM operators, and fintech-focused Series A investors will move the needle most. You'd also benefit from a small, honest room of fellow distributed-team CEOs who know what year six actually feels like.
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 S21 founder dinner for post-seed fintech and vertical SaaS companies actively prepping Series A decks, to pressure-test ARR efficiency narratives and swap warm intros to Bessemer, Ribbit, and Stripe-aligned funds
- introsA roundtable with Bessemer Venture Partners and Ribbit Capital associates specifically backing e-commerce accounting and SMB fintech tooling, where founders at $1M–$5M ARR can walk through unit economics and get real-time investor feedback
- hiringA hiring dinner for technical founders at the $2M–$8M ARR stage looking to make their first VP of Sales hire, featuring operators who've held that role at SMB-SaaS companies like Gusto, Housecall Pro, or Melio
- positioningA Shopify App Store ecosystem GTM roundtable with founders of top-ranked Shopify apps and Shopify Plus partners, focused on co-marketing playbooks, App Store discoverability, and how to turn ecosystem partnerships like SparkLayer into compounding CAC advantages
- tacticalA happy hour for B2SMB fintech founders building accountant and bookkeeper partner programs, to compare revshare structures, onboarding playbooks, and how firms like Xero and QuickBooks have historically locked in the accounting-led distribution channel
- positioningA competitive positioning dinner for founders of accounting and reconciliation tools competing in the A2X, Bookkeep, and Synder tier, with a structured session on third-party validation strategies and how to win accountant-led deals through credibility signals
- wellbeingA YC Continuity and Reforge CEO cohort alumni dinner for founders leading distributed teams of 40–80 people past year five, with a candid conversation about decision fatigue, org design, and building a leadership layer that reduces single-point-of-failure pressure on the CEO