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60th percentile
YC W24 founder and CEO who built and exited open-source B2B identity startup Tesseral
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current co-founder and CEO of Tesseral, an open source B2B identity platform.
- Y Combinator W24 alum via Tesseral.
- Tesseral was co-founded with Ulysse Carion.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator W24 alum via Tesseral.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder and CEO of Tesseral, an open source B2B identity platform.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Tesseral was co-founded with Ulysse Carion.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Tesseral raised $3.3M from investors including Y Combinator.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)businesswire.com (rank 332 on Majestic Million) is associated with Tesseral's launch announcement.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)GitHub account @tesseral-labs is the Tesseral org account (not Ned's personal account); no personal GitHub identified.
What you likely need
You're in a high-leverage transition moment post-Tesseral, and the right Festival events will help you activate your YC W24 network before momentum cools and position your next chapter publicly. Small, high-trust dinners with fellow YC W24 alumni and seed-stage infrastructure investors are your highest-ROI rooms right now. Events that give you space to process the wind-down narrative and sharpen your next company thesis will compound faster than generic networking.
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 W24 alumni dinner for batch-mates to swap post-batch war stories, surface co-founder leads, and make warm intros to seed investors already familiar with the cohort
- positioningA founder postmortem roundtable with YC W23/W24 founders who've wound down or pivoted, to workshop your Tesseral write-up into a credibility-building public narrative that attracts co-founders and investors
- hiringA technical co-founder mixer for auth, identity, and developer infrastructure builders from recent YC batches where your domain expertise as a technical CEO is a natural attractor
- fundraisingA seed-stage developer infrastructure investor dinner with funds who backed YC W24 companies, so you're top of mind when you're ready to raise and can lean on your Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston references
- wellbeingA YC repeat founder happy hour for second-time founders currently in stealth or early formation, to pressure-test next-company theses and compare notes on pacing the transition
- tacticalA build-in-public developer tools dinner for founders actively shipping open source projects, to get accountability and visibility for surfacing your individual GitHub contributions outside the Tesseral org
- introsA small YC partner office hours session for W24 founders exploring their next venture, giving you a structured moment to get signal from partners who already know your execution quality on what thesis to pursue next