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YC-backed co-founder and COO of Wallarm, a $120M-funded enterprise API security company
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current co-founder and COO of Wallarm, an enterprise API and AI security company.
- Y Combinator S16 alum — Wallarm went through YC Summer 2016.
- Wallarm was co-founded by four people: Ivan Novikov, Alexander Golovko, Stepan Ilyin, and Anastasia Novikova.
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current co-founder and COO of Wallarm, an enterprise API and AI security company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)wallarm.com ranks #77,645 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator S16 alum — Wallarm went through YC Summer 2016.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wallarm was co-founded by four people: Ivan Novikov, Alexander Golovko, Stepan Ilyin, and Anastasia Novikova.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wallarm has raised $120.8M in total funding across 7 rounds.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @stepan-i confirmed as Stepan Ilyin, co-founder of Wallarm.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @stepan-i has been active for approximately 8 years (created 2017).
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Wallarm generates $20.1M in annual revenue and is a privately held, operationally profitable-scale company.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal stage where the right room can compress years of relationship-building into a single evening — whether that's a warm intro to a growth-equity partner, a quiet conversation with a CISO who becomes your next anchor customer, or a candid exchange with a founder who just navigated an M&A process with Palo Alto or CrowdStrike. Festival events that put you in front of late-stage cybersecurity investors, strategic acquirers, and enterprise security buyers will do the most work for Wallarm right now. Pairing those with founder dinners focused on IPO-path and exit strategy will sharpen your own thinking as you approach the next inflection point.
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 growth-equity roundtable dinner for Series C/D cybersecurity founders with $15M–$30M ARR to compare notes on round structuring, international expansion narratives, and which growth-equity firms (General Atlantic, Insight, Vista) are most active in API security right now
- introsA closed-door roundtable with founders who have sold API security or cloud-infrastructure companies to Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, or Cloudflare — focused on how acquirers value ARR multiples, what triggers inbound M&A conversations, and how to stay on their radar without signaling desperation
- introsA YC S16 batch dinner with fellow alumni who have cracked Fortune 500 enterprise security sales, structured around warm CISO introductions and sharing which YC network channels have driven the highest-quality enterprise pipeline at scale
- hiringA hiring dinner for late-stage security founders who have recently recruited a VP of Sales or CRO with enterprise security experience, swapping candidate sourcing strategies, comp benchmarks, and red flags specific to scaling a technical security product past $50M ARR
- positioningA tactical content workshop for YC-backed technical founders building a LinkedIn or blog presence, focused on turning API security research and product insights into a publishing cadence that compounds into inbound pipeline and analyst attention
- positioningAn analyst relations roundtable for B2B security founders navigating their first Gartner Magic Quadrant or Forrester Wave submission, with founders who have secured Leader or Visionary placements sharing exactly how they structured briefings, reference customers, and positioning narratives
- tacticalA happy hour for founders who have open-sourced a security or infrastructure tool to build developer community and top-of-funnel awareness, sharing what drove GitHub star velocity, how they converted OSS users to enterprise pipeline, and lessons from structuring an open-source org under a commercial GitHub account
- fundraisingA late-stage founder dinner for YC-backed companies with $15M–$50M ARR weighing IPO readiness versus strategic acquisition, with candid conversation on how to keep both paths open simultaneously while running a growth-stage round