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47th percentile
YC-backed co-founder and President of Awesomic, a remote talent marketplace
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current co-founder and President of Awesomic, a remote talent marketplace.
- Y Combinator alum — Awesomic is listed on the official YC company directory.
- Awesomic was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Roman Sevast has a Wikipedia page, confirming public notability as an entrepreneur.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder and President of Awesomic, a remote talent marketplace.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Awesomic was co-founded with at least one other co-founder.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Y Combinator alum — Awesomic is listed on the official YC company directory.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Past founder of multiple earlier projects, including startups and game servers launched from age 13.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with Series A investors who already respect the YC and Forbes 30 Under 30 signal, so conversations start warm. Roundtables with other YC alumni building in talent and HR tech will open enterprise doors faster than cold outreach ever could. And connecting with fellow founders navigating high-stakes builds under extraordinary personal circumstances — including other Eastern European and wartime entrepreneurs — will be as strategically valuable as it is personally grounding.
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 alumni founder dinner with Series A investors actively writing checks into marketplace and future-of-work companies, where your Forbes 30 Under 30 and Awesomic ARR trajectory are the price of admission
- introsA YC alumni roundtable for founders building in talent, HR tech, and the future of work, focused on swapping warm introductions to enterprise procurement leads and strategic channel partners
- positioningA Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni happy hour for founders actively co-marketing and cross-promoting to each other's audiences, with Roman's Ukrainian dropout founder story as a natural editorial hook for shared press opportunities
- hiringA small hiring dinner for YC-backed marketplace founders who have successfully recruited a COO or VP of Operations, sharing playbooks for structuring the role so the CEO can stay focused on product and fundraising
- tacticalA build-in-public tactical roundtable for YC founders who have publicly posted ARR milestones and customer growth on LinkedIn or their company blog, workshopping what to share, when, and how to convert that visibility into inbound investor interest
- wellbeingAn intimate dinner for Eastern European and Ukrainian founders building globally while navigating wartime displacement and remote team stress, creating space for honest conversation about founder mental health and mutual support
- positioningA positioning workshop dinner for founders running remote talent and freelance marketplace businesses, pressure-testing how to differentiate on founder story and community trust in a crowded market where Toptal, Contra, and Braintrust are all competing for the same enterprise buyer
- fundraisingA YC alumni office hours session pairing early-growth marketplace founders with YC partners and batch alumni who have direct relationships at Sequoia, a16z, and Bessemer's future-of-work practices for warm Series A introductions