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Founder207Current founder
95th percentile
Investor135Current investor
98th percentile
Combined
Twitch co-founder, Goat Capital GP, now building Stash and Rye
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current co-founder of Stash and Rye.
- Y Combinator W07 alum (Justin.tv / Kiko).
- Past founder of Justin.tv/Twitch, Socialcam, Exec, Kiko, and Atrium.
- All of his companies (Twitch, Socialcam, Exec, Atrium, Rye, Stash) had co-founders.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Exit: Twitch acquired by Amazon for $970M in 2014.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikipedia and Wikidata both maintain entries for Justin Kan (notability).
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Past founder of Justin.tv/Twitch, Socialcam, Exec, Kiko, and Atrium.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)All of his companies (Twitch, Socialcam, Exec, Atrium, Rye, Stash) had co-founders.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)110,516 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder of Stash and Rye.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Exit: Socialcam acquired by Autodesk for $60M.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Justin Kan.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Y Combinator W07 alum (Justin.tv / Kiko).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Forbes/Inc. 30 Under 30.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wikipedia page averages ~7,983 views/month — broadly known public figure.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Raised ~$163M total across founded companies, including $75.6M at Atrium, $35M at Twitch, $35.1M at Fractal, and $14M at Rye.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Exit: Exec acquired by Handy (undisclosed value).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Top YouTube interview 'Mitch Lasky Reveals the Secret to GTM in Games to Justin Kan' has ~6,191 views; total ~19,371 views across 10 videos.
Investor score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Previously a Partner at Y Combinator from 2014 to 2017.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)General Partner at Goat Capital, a venture firm he co-founded with Robin Chan.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor by CB Insights and Arete Index.
- 94%Probability of being accurate (94%)Active GP / fund manager — co-runs Goat Capital I L.P.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Made 74 angel/seed investments to date, most recently in FLORA (Series A, Jan 2026).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Over 15 years of investing experience since beginning angel investing in the late 2000s.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Portfolio includes multiple acquisitions of seed-stage companies (small/undisclosed values), across his 74 investments.
What you likely need
You're a serial founder with a marquee $970M Twitch exit and a busy investing practice across Goat Capital and 70+ angel checks. The most valuable IRL gatherings for you right now are small, peer-level rooms with other multi-exit founders and GPs where you can pressure-test Stash and Rye's commerce/agentic-commerce theses, and curated builder dinners where you can source the next great founders for Goat Capital. Lean toward intimate dinners over big conferences.
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 small GP-to-GP dinner with fellow founder-turned-investors (Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, Garry Tan) to compare deal flow and AI-era LP strategy for Goat Capital.
- positioningAn invite-only roundtable on agentic commerce APIs with Rye-adjacent builders (Skyfire, Crossmint, Stripe Agents) to sharpen Rye's positioning.
- introsA dinner with game-studio founders and publishers to pressure-test Stash's D2C-webshop pitch and recruit launch partners cutting platform fees.
- introsA YC W07/alumni-partner dinner to reconnect with the cohort he funded as a Partner and surface late-2020s breakout founders for Goat Capital.
- hiringA Twitch / Justin.tv alumni happy hour to recruit a founding engineer or head of growth for Stash from the live-video diaspora.
- wellbeingA small dinner of post-exit founders building their next company (Drew Houston, Steve Huffman, Emmett Shear) to swap notes on motivation and operating cadence in act two.
- positioningA creator/podcaster mixer for tech founders with shows (his own podcast included) to trade distribution playbooks for the Goat Capital brand.
- tacticalA tactical workshop with AI-commerce founders on conversion benchmarks for agentic checkout — direct input for Rye's roadmap.