Founder Festival: Wade Foster's Profile

Welcome, Wade Foster

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Founder120

54th percentile

Investor34

72nd percentile

Combined154

#106 on Leaderboard

YC S12Serial FounderUnicorn FounderRaised $1M+500+ EmployeesAngel InvestorTop 1k Web

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Founder Majestic Million bonus: zapier.com is ranked #952 in the Majestic Million.

Founder score

99%Current co-founder and CEO of Zapier, actively leading the company since 2011.
99%Y Combinator Summer 2012 alum via Zapier.
99%Zapier was co-founded with Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop.
97%Zapier has been profitable since 2014, a rare achievement for a venture-backed software company.
97%Zapier raised $1.4M per the authoritative SEC Form D filing.
90%Founder Majestic Million bonus: zapier.com is ranked #952 in the Majestic Million.
90%GitHub account is over 5 years old, created in March 2011.
90%GitHub account is dormant: no public push in over 14 years.
88%Zapier is valued at approximately $7 billion, making Wade Foster a unicorn founder.
85%GitHub account identified as Wade Foster's (@WadeFoster), confirmed by name match.
40%Stack Overflow account identified for Wade Foster.

Investor score

95%Named related person on the Concord Syndicate 101 Main St. LLC SEC Form D filing, confirming active fund/syndicate management.
85%Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of at least 4 companies including Adalo, OneSchema, and Createanything.
80%Has made at least 4 active angel investments per Tracxn portfolio data.

What you likely need

Wade Foster is a high-signal founder-operator running one of the most capital-efficient unicorns in SaaS history — Zapier at ~$7B valuation on just $1.4M raised. His profile is dominated by the founder dimension, with a growing but still nascent angel investing footprint. The biggest near-term leverage is positioning Zapier for a liquidity event and formalizing his investor identity.

Are these your current priorities?

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.

fundraisingBegin public-market readiness work (audited financials, investor relations infrastructure) given Zapier's $400M ARR and profitability since 2014 — the company is a strong IPO candidate.
positioningFormalize your angel investing activity into a named micro-fund or syndicate to attract co-investors and increase deal flow beyond the current 4-company portfolio.
hiringDouble down on the Enterprise Sales Team build-out you've publicly signaled — Zapier's $400M ARR and 7,000+ app integrations are a strong moat for upmarket expansion.
positioningLean into the 'AI orchestration platform' narrative publicly — the MCP protocol launch and AI fluency rubric are differentiated assets worth amplifying in enterprise analyst briefings and press.
introsLeverage your YC S12 network and Zapier's 2M+ business customer base to source proprietary angel deal flow in the workflow-automation and AI-agent tooling space.
tacticalReactivate your GitHub presence with even occasional public commits or open-source tooling releases — your account has been dormant for 14 years, which undersells your technical credibility.
fundraisingExplore structured secondary transactions to provide liquidity for early employees and co-founders while preserving the majority-founder ownership structure ahead of any IPO.