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2x YC founder who sold Lyst for $154M, now President at Cognito
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current founder and President/COO of Cognito, an identity verification startup.
- Two-time Y Combinator participant (2012 and 2014 batches).
- Past founder and CEO of Lyst, a fashion e-commerce platform.
- Lyst was co-founded with other co-founders.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder and CEO of Lyst, a fashion e-commerce platform.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)cognitohq.com ranks #831,593 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Lyst was acquired by ZOZO, Inc. for $154M.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Two-time Y Combinator participant.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current founder and President/COO of Cognito, an identity verification startup.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Lyst was co-founded with other co-founders.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, with angel investing listed as a specialty.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Approximately 13 years of investing experience, active since at least 2012.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with climate and deep tech co-investors who can help you formalize your angel activity into a named syndicate, and with YC alumni and fintech operators who are either Cognito prospects or seed-stage fundraising peers. Events that give you a stage or a sharp peer audience to road-test your Lyst exit narrative and identity-meets-climate thesis would also accelerate the inbound you're trying to generate.
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 S12/W14 alumni dinner for founders and operators in fintech and identity to surface warm Cognito customer intros and co-investor leads ahead of a formal raise
- fundraisingA roundtable for Oxford-connected and Royal Society-adjacent angels formalizing climate and deep tech syndicates, to pressure-test fund structure, deal flow sourcing, and LP pitch for a named micro-fund
- introsAn Oxford EIR and Royal Society Entrepreneur-in-Residence dinner with UK and EU climate deep tech founders actively raising seed or Series A, to build co-investment pipeline and sourcing relationships
- positioningA small founder dinner for two-time YC founders who have exited or are approaching exit, where you workshop your Lyst $154M acquisition post-mortem into a compelling public narrative that drives inbound from investors and acquirers
- positioningA curated happy hour for fintech and climate infrastructure founders and investors where you present your thesis on identity verification as critical rails for climate fintech, positioning Cognito and your Oxford work as the proof points
- fundraisingA fundraising roundtable for sub-10-person SaaS founders at $2M–$5M ARR preparing for their first institutional round, to stress-test Cognito's pitch, metrics framing, and investor targeting before you go to market
- hiringA dinner with early sales and partnerships hires from YC-backed identity and compliance companies — including Persona, Onfido, and Alloy alumni — to find a first commercial hire who can own Cognito's revenue motion before the raise