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35th percentile
a16z Speedrun founder building Lekondo, a 2025 fashion discovery engine
Credibility
Operator · 98th percentile
- Selected as 1 of 60 teams from 15,000+ applicants for the a16z speedrun accelerator program.
- Current Co-Founder and CEO of Lekondo, a fashion discovery engine founded in 2025.
- Lekondo has a co-founder (CTO listed on the a16z speedrun page alongside Yeng Tan).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Selected as 1 of 60 teams from 15,000+ applicants for the a16z speedrun accelerator program.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Lekondo, a fashion discovery engine founded in 2025.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @yengtan is dormant with no public repo push activity detected.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Lekondo has a co-founder (CTO listed on the a16z speedrun page alongside Yeng Tan).
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Lekondo has raised $1.0M in total funding.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)GitHub account @yengtan identified for this subject.
What you likely need
You're at a critical 60-day window post-a16z speedrun where the right rooms can directly accelerate your seed close and public credibility as a technical founder. Festival events that put you in front of fashion-tech angels, commerce infrastructure investors, and international founder networks will compound your accelerator momentum before it fades. You also need tactical peer pressure to ship public signals — GitHub, Product Hunt, essays — so gatherings with build-in-public founders and pre-seed technical operators will move the needle fast.
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.
- fundraisingAn a16z speedrun alumni dinner for founders actively closing seed rounds to swap live investor pipeline, compare term sheets, and make warm cross-introductions to fashion-tech and commerce infrastructure angels while demo day momentum is fresh
- introsA roundtable dinner with fashion-tech angels and Series A investors who have backed discovery or commerce infrastructure companies — think Accel, Forerunner, and Lerer Hippeau LPs — where Yeng can pitch Lekondo's global discovery angle and collect warm intros from a16z speedrun partners in the room
- positioningAn a16z speedrun and Sequoia Arc international founder dinner celebrating cross-border builders with presence in Italy, China, and Brazil, where Yeng can sharpen Lekondo's global fashion discovery narrative against founders who have successfully positioned international reach as a competitive moat
- tacticalA tactical happy hour for pre-seed founders who have hit top-5 Product Hunt launches in the commerce or discovery category, where Yeng can pressure-test Lekondo's PH launch strategy, hunter selection, and day-of sequencing before going live
- positioningA build-in-public night for technical founders with sub-10 GitHub public repos who are actively pushing open-source work to establish credibility, where Yeng can commit to shipping a Lekondo utility or design system publicly with peer accountability from other early-stage operators
- hiringA hiring dinner for a16z and YC-backed early-stage founders at the 5–10 employee inflection point who are recruiting their first head of product or second senior engineer, where Yeng can source warm candidate referrals and compare compensation structures for pre-Series A technical hires
- positioningA small workshop dinner for early-stage founders building a public intellectual voice — modeled on how Packy McCormick and Lenny Rachitsky grew audiences before fundraising — where Yeng can draft and pressure-test a first essay or thread on tacit knowledge in fashion discovery with writers and investors who reward founder-led content
- fundraisingAn intimate office hours session with seed and pre-Series A investors who have backed commerce infrastructure and discovery-layer startups — including Forerunner Ventures and Bolt alumni angels — where Yeng gets direct feedback on Lekondo's $2–5M seed narrative and closes the gap between a16z speedrun credibility and a signed term sheet