Founder Festival: Prasad Kawthekar's Profile

Welcome, Prasad Kawthekar

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Founder63

74th percentile

Investor22

66th percentile

Combined

#282 on Leaderboard

YC W20 founder who sold Dashworks to HubSpot, now angel investing

• Professional:YC W20 First-Time Founder Acquired Raised $10M+Angel Investor

Credibility

this founder typical founder (50th pct)

Technical Depth · 62th percentile

Has 12 public repos on GitHub, meeting the active builder threshold.
GitHub account @prasadkawthekar confirmed via bio matching his name and Dashworks role.
GitHub account created in 2013, making it over 11 years old.
Identified as a Hugging Face author as @prasadkawthekar.
Identified as a dev.to user as @prasadkawthekar.
Identified Stack Overflow account for Prasad Kawthekar.

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Founder score

99%Dashworks was a Y Combinator Winter 2020 company.
99%Named as a related person on Dashworks Technologies, Inc. SEC Form D exempt-offering filing.
98%Past founder and CEO of Dashworks, acquired by HubSpot.
97%GitHub account @prasadkawthekar confirmed via bio matching his name and Dashworks role.
97%GitHub account created in 2013, making it over 11 years old.
95%Dashworks was acquired by HubSpot for $25M.
95%Dashworks was co-founded with Praty Sharma.
95%Has 12 public repos on GitHub, meeting the active builder threshold.
95%dashworks.ai ranks #562,568 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
85%Dashworks raised $14.5M in total venture funding across all rounds.
75%Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 2 and 671 citations, affiliated with Stanford University.
70%Identified as a dev.to user as @prasadkawthekar.
65%Identified as a Hugging Face author as @prasadkawthekar.
60%Identified Stack Overflow account for Prasad Kawthekar.
55%Wikidata-equivalent notability signal: Prasad Kawthekar is listed on Crunchbase as a recognized founder with a CB Rank.

Investor score

80%Publicly identified as an angel investor with investments in Refuel, Enam, Nivara, Flowgen Labs, Amber, Midship, and Trellus.
78%Has made at least 7 active investments across Refuel, Enam, Nivara, Flowgen Labs, Amber, Midship, and Trellus.

What you likely need

You're in a rare post-exit window where the right room matters more than the right pitch deck — Festival events should help you pressure-test your next problem space with people who've navigated the same crossroads. Given your YC W20 roots, HubSpot ecosystem depth, and growing angel portfolio, the highest-value gatherings are small, high-trust dinners where you can explore the builder-vs-investor question with founders who've faced it and angels who've formalized it. A few well-placed intros and honest conversations now could save you six months of drift.

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 W20 alumni dinner for post-exit founders to openly compare notes on the builder-vs-investor crossroads and surface co-founder or early customer leads for your next venture
positioningA roundtable with angels and operators building or backing startups in the HubSpot ecosystem — CRM integrations, RevOps tooling, and GTM automation — where your post-acquisition insider knowledge is the rarest asset in the room
fundraisingA dinner with YC-pedigreed founders-turned-GPs who've formalized syndicates or micro-funds to walk you through the LP pitch, deal flow mechanics, and whether a $5–10M vehicle makes sense given your 7+ angel bets
positioningA build-in-public happy hour for AI and enterprise knowledge-management founders actively writing on dev.to or Substack, designed to push you to publish your first piece on AI/ML and knowledge-base architecture before your next venture launches
fundraisingA small YC W20 and W21 founder workshop where each attendee stress-tests their next seed narrative in front of peers who've recently raised, helping you sharpen the problem-space story before you approach investors
wellbeingA curated half-day offsite for founders 6–18 months post-acquisition — including HubSpot, Salesforce, and Atlassian acqui-hire alumni — to decompress, share the emotional reality of the transition, and get honest about what you actually want to build next
tacticalA dinner with open-source dev-tools founders who built developer communities via GitHub before their seed round, so you can map out what an early public repo strategy would look like if your next company has an OSS layer