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30th percentile
Serial NZ founder building Lonelyseat, the country's first peer-to-peer delivery platform
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Lonelyseat.co.nz, New Zealand's first peer-to-peer delivery platform.
- Also founded Good Buggers Advisory, a business advisory firm, making him a serial founder.
- Lonelyseat.co.nz was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- Finalist in the Soda Inc Startup Bootcamp, demonstrating early-stage founder credibility in the New Zealand startup ecosystem.
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of Lonelyseat.co.nz, New Zealand's first peer-to-peer delivery platform.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Lonelyseat.co.nz was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Also founded Good Buggers Advisory, a business advisory firm, making him a serial founder.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Finalist in the Soda Inc Startup Bootcamp, demonstrating early-stage founder credibility in the New Zealand startup ecosystem.
What you likely need
You're at the stage where the right room matters more than the right deck — Festival events that put you in front of NZ-focused seed investors, Māori and Pacific capital networks, and YC-connected founders will do more for Lonelyseat than any cold outreach. You'd also benefit from small operator roundtables where founders juggling governance overload talk honestly about what to cut and how to hire their first growth lead.
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 pre-seed founder dinner with partners from NZVC, Punakaiki Fund, and Outset Ventures to pressure-test the Lonelyseat peer-to-peer logistics model and get candid feedback on NZ raise readiness
- fundraisingA YC alumni roundtable for logistics and marketplace founders who've gone through the application process, to workshop how to frame Lonelyseat's NZ-first positioning for a YC batch application
- introsA dinner connecting Māori and Pacific founders with investors and grant-makers from Te Puni Kōkiri, Pacific Business Trust, and Māori-focused family offices to explore aligned capital for community-rooted platforms like Lonelyseat
- introsA happy hour for founders with Institute of Directors and NZ Shareholders Association backgrounds to convert existing governance credibility into warm introductions to NZ angel investors and family offices
- positioningA small positioning workshop with founders who've landed TechCrunch APAC and NZ ecosystem coverage, to build a targeted PR strategy that takes Lonelyseat beyond the NZ Entrepreneur Magazine feature
- hiringA dinner for solo-operator founders at the one-employee stage who are actively hiring their first growth or operations lead, sharing playbooks for scoping the role and finding candidates outside the obvious networks
- wellbeingA candid roundtable for founders holding five or more concurrent board and advisory roles alongside running a company, to talk honestly about what to step back from and how to protect startup focus without burning bridges