Founder Festival: Richard Aberman's Profile

Welcome, Richard Aberman

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Founder35

47th percentile

Investor90

93rd percentile

Combined

#150 on Leaderboard

YC alum and ex-Visiting YC Partner now backing open-source founders at Open Core Ventures

• Professional:YC S2009 First-Time Founder Acquired Raised $75M+250+ Employees Partner at Y Combinator Angel Investor

Credibility

this founder typical investor (50th pct)

Firm Standing · 98th percentile

Served as Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator from January 2022 to October 2023.
Currently Group Partner at Open Core Ventures, a recognized venture capital firm backing open-source companies.
Active GP and fund manager at Open Core Ventures, partnering with open-source developers to build venture-scale companies.

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Founder score

97%Past founder and CPO of WePay, which was acquired by JP Morgan Chase in December 2017.
95%WePay is a Y Combinator Summer 2009 alum.
92%WePay raised $75M in venture capital over its lifetime as a private company.
90%WePay was acquired by JP Morgan Chase in December 2017 (acquisition price undisclosed).
88%WePay achieved profitability before its acquisition by JP Morgan Chase.
80%WePay had co-founders alongside Richard Aberman.

Investor score

92%Served as Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator from January 2022 to October 2023.
90%Publicly identified as an angel investor with 50+ direct investments in early-stage companies.
88%Currently Group Partner at Open Core Ventures, a recognized venture capital firm backing open-source companies.
85%Active GP and fund manager at Open Core Ventures, partnering with open-source developers to build venture-scale companies.
85%Has made 50+ direct angel investments, primarily through YC Demo Day funds.
75%Approximately 3 years of active investing experience, beginning with his role at Y Combinator in January 2022.

What you likely need

You'd get the most out of Festival events that sharpen your public investing identity around open-core and OSS — dinners and roundtables where you can pressure-test your thesis alongside other credible voices. High-signal intro settings with YC S/W25 OSS founders and fintech infrastructure builders are where you can move fastest on deal flow before rounds close. Events that connect you with micro-fund GPs and institutional LPs will also be directly useful as you formalize Open Core Ventures into a named fund.

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.

positioningA roundtable dinner with 6-8 OSS founders and investors to pressure-test and sharpen a public open-core business model thesis before Richard publishes it
introsA YC S25/W25 OSS founder dinner for warm intros to the top open-source companies closing seed rounds before Demo Day buzz fades
fundraisingA micro-fund GP roundtable with 5-6 founders-turned-investors who have formalized angel syndicates into named funds, focused on LP sourcing and fund structure decisions
introsA fintech infrastructure founder dinner connecting OSS payments and banking-stack builders with domain-expert angels from the WePay and JPMorgan Chase alumni networks
tacticalA YC Demo Day co-investor happy hour for angels and micro-fund GPs who syndicate deals, to align on evaluation criteria and build a standing deal-share network around OSS and AI
positioningA founder-to-investor storytelling dinner with other successful exits-turned-investors to workshop WePay-to-JPMorgan retrospective narratives that resonate with early-stage founders evaluating investors
positioningAn office hours session with 3-4 OSS-focused VCs and operator-investors to pressure-test the Open Core Ventures public handbook before release and benchmark it against Redpoint or a16z's public playbooks