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Founder27Current founder
34th percentile
Investor0Current investor
Combined
YC S20 founder now building an AI-native B2B SaaS holdco
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Traction · 59th percentile
- Current Founder and CEO of AMP Dynamic, an AI-native holdco acquiring and growing B2B SaaS businesses.
- Atomized raised $500K in a pre-seed round from Zing Capital, Y Combinator, and others.
- Alderlake Capital Holdings' portfolio companies were acquired in 2025, representing a founder exit.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator S20 alum via Atomized.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of Atomized (YC S20), which was shut down in 2022.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Atomized raised $500K in a pre-seed round from Zing Capital, Y Combinator, and others.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current Founder and CEO of AMP Dynamic, an AI-native holdco acquiring and growing B2B SaaS businesses.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @nikkotov has been active for approximately 10 years (created April 2016).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @nikkotov is dormant with no public push activity in approximately 9.7 years.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)GitHub account @nikkotov identified as Nik Kotov's account.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Atomized had co-founders, as indicated by the collective decision to shut down the company.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Alderlake Capital Holdings' portfolio companies were acquired in 2025, representing a founder exit.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Listed on siliconflorist.com (Majestic Million rank 23,395), a site that featured Nik Kotov.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that sharpen your holdco narrative in front of investors and fellow operators who can accelerate your first close. Rooms full of YC alumni founders running sub-$1M ARR SaaS products are your highest-leverage deal sourcing channel, and you should be in them regularly. Connecting with other holdco and permanent-equity operators will compress your learning curve on diligence and deal structuring faster than anything else.
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 S20 alumni dinner for founders-turned-holdco operators to pressure-test AMP Dynamic's acquisition fund thesis and warm-path introductions to angel LPs and micro-VC co-investors interested in a first close
- introsA YC alumni roundtable for founders running sub-$1M ARR SaaS products who are open to acqui-hire or asset sales, giving Nik direct access to the exact acquisition targets that fit AMP Dynamic's holdco thesis
- introsA holdco operators dinner with founders and principals from Tiny Capital and Permanent Equity communities to swap deal flow, diligence playbooks, and post-acquisition operational frameworks
- fundraisingA Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni happy hour connecting Nik with other honorees who have crossed into investing or fund formation, anchoring his fundraising pitch in shared credibility with prospective angel LPs
- positioningA small positioning workshop for technical founders building public acquisition theses, where Nik can draft and stress-test his AMP Dynamic essay or thread with peers who have successfully attracted inbound deal flow through writing
- positioningA founder postmortem dinner for YC alums who have publicly written about shutting down a venture, helping Nik expand his Atomized failure essay into a polished case study that signals self-awareness to both investors and acquisition-target founders
- tacticalA Product Hunt launch tactics roundtable for B2B SaaS founders preparing a debut, where Nik can plan the AMP Dynamic or portfolio product launch to maximize upvotes, early user feedback, and public builder credibility
- tacticalA build-in-public night for technical YC founders reactivating their GitHub presence, where Nik can ship and open-source a small AMP Dynamic internal automation tool alongside peers who can amplify the release