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21st percentile
2x YC founder now building Hestus, AI-powered CAD software
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current Co-Founder and CEO of Hestus, an AI-powered CAD software company.
- Two-time Y Combinator alum (SpaceRyde W19 and Hestus S24).
- Co-founded Hestus with CTO Kevin Chu.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Hestus, an AI-powered CAD software company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Two-time Y Combinator alum (SpaceRyde W19 and Hestus S24).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder and CEO of SpaceRyde, an on-demand rocket launch network.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Co-founded Hestus with CTO Kevin Chu.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Raised approximately $4.7M across SpaceRyde ($2.7M) and Hestus ($2.0M).
- 30%Probability of being accurate (30%)GitHub account is dormant: no public push activity detected.
What you likely need
You're a two-time YC founder with deep technical roots in robotics, autonomous driving, and aerospace, now building Hestus to bring AI into CAD workflows. The highest-leverage Founder Festival events for you right now are tight-knit gatherings with other technical YC founders selling into hardware/engineering teams — places to pressure-test GTM into CAD users, meet seed and Series A investors who back deep-tech AI, and recruit founding engineers. Lean into rooms where domain depth (mechanical/aerospace + AI) is the entry ticket.
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.
- tacticalA YC S24 founder dinner to swap GTM playbooks for selling AI tools into traditional engineering teams.
- positioningA roundtable with founders building AI for CAD/EDA/design tooling (Cadence/SolidWorks/Onshape alumni) to compare wedge strategies.
- fundraisingAn invite-only happy hour with seed/Series A investors who back deep-tech AI (Lux, 8VC, Construct, Lemnos) for warm intros before the next raise.
- hiringA Cruise Automation alumni mixer in SF to recruit a founding engineer with autonomy/controls chops.
- introsOffice hours with VPs of Engineering at mid-market hardware companies to pressure-test Hestus pricing and procurement motions.
- wellbeingA small dinner for second-time YC founders to compare notes on shutting down a prior company cleanly while scaling the next one.
- tacticalA tactical workshop with founders shipping production AI agents (eval pipelines, tool use, latency) applicable to the CAD copilot stack.