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82nd percentile
YC S24 founder building expand.ai after exiting Stellate to Shopify
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of expand.ai (YC S24).
- expand.ai is a Y Combinator S24 alum.
- Past co-founder of Stellate, a GraphQL edge-caching company.
- expand.ai and Stellate both had co-founders.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)expand.ai is a Y Combinator S24 alum.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current founder and CEO of expand.ai (YC S24).
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)GitHub account @timsuchanek confirmed as Tim Suchanek's account.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)GitHub account @timsuchanek has been active for over 14 years (created 2011).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Currently shipping public code (most recent push 16 days ago, repo 'watchr').
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past co-founder of Stellate, a GraphQL edge-caching company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active builder on GitHub with 211 public non-fork repositories.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)expand.ai and Stellate both had co-founders.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Identified Hacker News account @timsuchanek with 380 karma.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Posted on Hacker News with a top post reaching 747 points.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Stellate was acquired by Shopify.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Stellate raised $30M in total funding across 2 rounds.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)expand.ai has raised approximately $500K in total funding.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Publishes on dev.to as @timsuchanek.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Identified as a Hugging Face author at @timsuchanek.
What you likely need
You're a technical YC S24 founder with a proven exit (Stellate → Shopify) and a thin seed round to close for expand.ai — Festival events that put you in a room with dev-tools-focused seed investors and warm YC alumni connectors are your highest-leverage plays right now. You also need to build developer mindshare fast, so gatherings around open-source strategy, HN launch tactics, and technical content will compound your fundraising narrative. Rounding it out, a small hiring-focused dinner could help you find the senior engineer or technical co-founder you need before your round closes.
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 S24 founder dinner with seed-stage investors who have backed developer-tools and API infrastructure companies, where you can road-test the expand.ai pitch and Stellate-acquired-by-Shopify exit narrative
- introsA YC alumni roundtable for S20–S24 dev-tools founders to trade warm intros to seed funds actively writing checks into scraping infrastructure and API tooling
- positioningA dinner for founders who have had exits to Shopify, Stripe, or Vercel to swap fundraising positioning tactics and help each other leverage prior acquisitions as investor signal
- tacticalA happy hour for founders with top-ranked HN posts — think 500+ karma, proven Show HN hits — to workshop expand.ai's upcoming Show HN launch strategy and community seeding playbook
- tacticalA dinner for YC founders open-sourcing core infrastructure components to compare GitHub star growth strategies, developer community flywheels, and how open-source mindshare has accelerated their seed rounds
- positioningA roundtable for technical founders publishing on dev.to, personal blogs, or Substack about scraping, type-safe APIs, or AI-enabled UX — to share distribution tactics and how inbound developer content converts to pipeline
- hiringA small dinner for YC S23–S24 founders at the 3–6 employee stage actively recruiting a senior engineer or technical co-founder, with a structured warm-intro exchange among attendees' networks