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67th percentile
YC W22 founder now building AI GTM tooling at Vanta
Credibility
Operator · 57th percentile
- Cashmere was a Y Combinator W22 batch company.
- Past founder and CEO of Cashmere, a YC-backed institutional crypto wallet.
- Cashmere had co-founders alongside Shashank Khanna.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Cashmere was a Y Combinator W22 batch company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder and CEO of Cashmere, a YC-backed institutional crypto wallet.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current Founder in Residence at Vanta, leading GTM Innovation and AI tooling for the sales org.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Cashmere raised $3.7M total in venture funding.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Cashmere raised at a $30M valuation (seed round, 2022).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account is over 5 years old (created January 2015).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Top GitHub repo 'Trading-Strategies' has only 6 stars, below the 100-star threshold for top-repo points.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Active builder with 14 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)GitHub account identified for Shashank Khanna (@shashank-khanna).
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Cashmere had co-founders alongside Shashank Khanna.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Shashank Khanna.
What you likely need
You're at a high-leverage inflection point — your AI agent work at Vanta has real enterprise proof points but your public builder presence doesn't yet reflect your output, so events that sharpen your fundraising narrative and close that credibility gap are the highest ROI. Warm intro dinners with YC W22 cohort members and enterprise AI buyers will accelerate both a potential spinout and your next raise. Tactical sessions on publishing and open-sourcing your LangGraph work will compound your inbound for recruiting, fundraising, and customers simultaneously.
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 W22 alumni dinner for founders now 3 years post-batch who are spinning out of operator roles into new ventures, to pressure-test spinout narratives and swap warm intros to seed and Series A investors
- positioningA roundtable for AI infrastructure founders publishing LangGraph and multi-agent workflow content, focused on turning internal cost-savings case studies (like a $1M+ annual savings story) into durable inbound via technical blogs and newsletters
- introsA dinner with enterprise AI buyers and GTM leaders at Series B+ companies actively evaluating AI agent tooling, where founders with live production deployments can demo real workflows and collect warm pipeline intros
- introsA happy hour for founders backed by Coinbase Ventures and Canapi who are now building AI-native companies, to re-engage prior investors as angels or advisors for a next venture
- fundraisingA small workshop for YC-pedigreed founders with sub-$5M raises who are building toward a seed or Series A on AI agent infrastructure, focused on sharpening the fundraising narrative before hitting the market
- hiringA recruiting dinner for AI-native founders looking to hire founding engineers with Rust or systems-level experience, co-hosted with a handful of Solana and infrastructure-adjacent engineering talent
- tacticalAn office hours session for technical founders with dormant GitHub profiles and strong LinkedIn engagement who want to systematically open-source their AI agent work and build a public builder reputation fast
- introsA YC W22 cohort networking night specifically for members now in senior operator or BD roles at enterprise companies, structured around making warm intros to AI buyers and potential co-founders for batchmates exploring new ventures