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YC W17 alum who raised $11M for VoiceOps, now founding Sela in voice AI
Credibility
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- Listed as CEO of Sela on the YC-affiliated voice AI company.
- Current founder and CEO of Sela, an AI voice agent startup.
- Y Combinator W17 alum (VoiceOps).
- Past co-founder of VoiceOps, a sales conversation analytics company.
- Co-founded VoiceOps with at least one other co-founder.
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Founder score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current founder and CEO of Sela, an AI voice agent startup.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Y Combinator W17 alum (VoiceOps).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder of VoiceOps, a sales conversation analytics company.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Co-founded VoiceOps with at least one other co-founder.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)GitHub account is dormant: most recent push was 3.7 years ago on a tutorial repo.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Raised $11M at VoiceOps from YC, Accel, and Bain Capital Ventures.
- 0%Probability of being accurate (0%)Listed as CEO of Sela on the YC-affiliated voice AI company.
What you likely need
You need events that help you sharpen Sela's positioning in a crowded voice-AI market and build the Series A narrative before you formally go out to raise. The highest-leverage gatherings for you right now are ones that surface warm intros to mid-market sales orgs as design partners, connect you with a16z/Bessemer/Greylock voice-AI investors through your existing Accel and Bain Capital Ventures relationships, and put you in rooms with applied ML talent who can own voice model infrastructure. You'll also benefit from founder peer groups where you can pressure-test your 20%-cost-reduction wedge and ROI storytelling with people who will give you honest, high-signal feedback.
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.
- introsA YC W17 batchmate dinner to surface warm design-partner intros to mid-market sales orgs actively evaluating AI SDRs for Sela's inbound and warm-outbound use case
- fundraisingA roundtable dinner with a16z, Bessemer, and Greylock partners who back voice AI, structured around live ROI case studies from AI SDR deployments, with warm entry via Accel and Bain Capital Ventures cap-table relationships
- positioningA closed dinner for VP Sales and RevOps leaders at mid-market B2B companies piloting AI SDRs, where Nate can pressure-test Sela's 20%-cost-reduction positioning and recruit 5-10 marquee design partners whose call-volume data can headline a Series A deck
- hiringA happy hour for applied ML engineers with voice-model experience — latency optimization, interruption handling, and eval infrastructure — drawn from YC alumni and the broader voice-AI research community to help Sela source its highest-leverage hire
- introsAn in-person meetup for YC voice and AI alumni from the YC Slack community to trade design-partner leads, benchmark Series A timelines, and share hard-won differentiation strategies against well-funded voice-agent competitors
- positioningA roundtable for sales-leader content creators and AI-in-sales practitioners where Nate can workshop his LinkedIn A/B-testing-AI-sales-coaching series into a longer-form playbook or podcast format that compounds inbound from sales leaders
- tacticalA small tactical hackathon for voice-AI founders and ML engineers to collaboratively ship an open-source eval harness for voice agents — giving Nate a credible, high-visibility GitHub artifact that reclaims builder credibility ahead of Series A conversations