Founder Festival: Justin Kan's Profile

Welcome, Justin Kan

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Founder190

63rd percentile

Investor121

97th percentile

Combined311

#63 on Leaderboard

YC S05Serial FounderAcquired3 ExitsRaised $100M+10,000+ EmployeesPartner at Y CombinatorAngel InvestorOn Wikipedia

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Has a Wikipedia and Wikidata entity (Q6317750) as a notable American internet entrepreneur.

Founder score

99%Exit: Twitch acquired by Amazon for approximately $970M in 2014.
99%Has a Wikipedia and Wikidata entity (Q6317750) as a notable American internet entrepreneur.
98%Past founder of Kiko Software, Justin.tv, Socialcam, Exec, and Atrium.
97%Y Combinator alum from the very first batch in 2005 with Kiko Software.
97%Multiple companies co-founded with partners, including Twitch with Emmett Shear and others.
95%Currently co-founding Stash (formerly Fractal) and Rye simultaneously.
95%Exit: Socialcam acquired by Autodesk for $60M.
90%Exit: Exec acquired by Handy (Handybook) in 2014.
80%Raised approximately $124.7M in total across Atrium ($75.6M), Fractal/Stash ($35.1M), and Rye ($14M).
70%Founded justin.tv, which ranks in the Majestic Million web index.

Investor score

97%Served as Partner at Y Combinator from 2014 to 2017.
97%Publicly identified as an angel investor across multiple sources including CBInsights and Arete Index.
93%Active General Partner at Goat Capital, a hybrid incubator and seed fund he co-founded with Robin Chan.
92%Made 73 documented angel investments, including recent rounds in FLORA and ClearGrid.
88%Has been actively investing since at least 2014 when he joined Y Combinator as a Partner, giving approximately 11 years of investing experience.

What you likely need

Justin is a highly accomplished serial founder and active investor with three major exits, multiple current ventures, and a deep network from his YC and Twitch days. His current focus spans Stash (gaming commerce), Rye (eCommerce APIs), and Goat Capital (co-founding fund), giving him an unusually broad surface area to manage simultaneously. The biggest leverage point right now is likely clarifying which of his current bets deserves the most founder attention and capital.

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.

tacticalPrioritize one of Stash or Rye as your primary founder focus — running two early-stage companies simultaneously risks splitting founder attention at the critical growth stage.
fundraisingRye has $14M raised and a developer-tools angle that fits the current AI-agent commerce wave — consider timing a Series A to capitalize on the Skyfire/KYA partnership momentum.
introsTap your YC alumni network (first batch, 2005) and your former Partner relationships to source warm intros for Stash's enterprise game-publisher pipeline.
positioningPublish a clear thesis for Goat Capital's co-founding model to attract inbound deal flow from founders who want an operator-investor, differentiating from pure financial VCs.
tacticalWith 73 investments and a recent FLORA Series A, systematically identify your top 10 portfolio companies for pro-rata follow-on rights before they hit Series B.
positioningStash's '30% platform fee elimination' narrative is a strong hook — publish a founder case study or data report to drive organic press and game-developer sign-ups.
wellbeingManaging two active co-founder roles plus a VC fund is a significant cognitive load — consider a quarterly personal review to assess where your energy is creating the most value.