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YC S20 co-founder and CEO of QuestDB, angel investor via W2 Ventures
Credibility
Operator · 100th percentile
- Nicolas Hourcard is the named director of QUESTDB LIMITED per UK Companies House filing, confirming his founder/operator role.
- Current Co-Founder and CEO of QuestDB.
- QuestDB is a Y Combinator S20 (Summer 2020) company.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Nicolas Hourcard is the named director of QUESTDB LIMITED per UK Companies House filing, confirming his founder/operator role.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of QuestDB.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)QuestDB is a Y Combinator S20 (Summer 2020) company.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)QuestDB raised $15M total, including a $2.3M seed and a $12M Series A.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)questdb.com ranks #226,629 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently shipping public code — the QuestDB repo was pushed to 0 days ago.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)QuestDB was co-founded with Vlad (co-founder mentioned in the fundraising blog post).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)QuestDB GitHub org account is over 5 years old (created June 2019).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Also founded W2 Ventures, making him a serial founder.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)QuestDB GitHub org has 77 public repos, qualifying as an active builder.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @questdb identified as the QuestDB org account, active since 2019.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Nicolas Hourcard.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, with a portfolio including Webiny, Seam, KeyDB, Cal.com, and others.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Founder and active GP of W2 Ventures, an early-stage investment vehicle with 16+ portfolio companies.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)W2 Ventures was founded in 2018, giving approximately 7 years of investing experience (capped at 15).
What you likely need
You're a technical founder at a critical inflection point — QuestDB has real open-source traction and a credible path to Series B, but you need the right rooms to sharpen your fundraising narrative, close enterprise deals, and get warm intros to Benchmark and Accel-tier funds. Festival events that put you in front of developer-infrastructure investors, fintech/quant-finance operators, and YC S20 peers will move the needle fastest. You'd also benefit from a small, candid dinner with other founder-angels who've navigated the cognitive load of running a fund and a company simultaneously.
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 dinner for YC-backed developer-infrastructure founders at the Series A/B threshold to pressure-test cloud-revenue narratives and ARR benchmarks with peers who've already pitched Benchmark and Accel
- introsA YC S20 batch roundtable where founders trade warm intros to Series B-stage funds — specifically Benchmark, Accel, and Index — that have backed OSS and developer-tools companies
- positioningA workshop for open-source founders obsessed with GitHub star growth, Show HN strategy, and developer-marketing flywheels — featuring founders who've scaled past 10K stars and converted that traction into enterprise pipeline
- positioningA happy hour for founders and operators building data infrastructure for fintech and quant-finance teams, where QuestDB's capital-markets vertical can be stress-tested against real buyer pain from hedge funds and trading desks
- hiringA dinner for OSS-to-enterprise founders who've made their first enterprise AE or solutions-engineer hire, sharing playbooks for converting a large developer user base into paying cloud and self-hosted contracts
- introsAn intimate dinner with the GitHub, Docker, and Reddit founder-investors in QuestDB's cap table to coordinate warm intros and sharpen the Series B story before a formal raise process kicks off
- wellbeingA candid dinner for technical founders who are simultaneously running an angel fund, sharing honest frameworks for delegating deal-sourcing to scouts or co-GPs without losing deal quality during a company's critical growth phase
- tacticalA roundtable for YC founders whose own portfolio companies — like Cal.com and PeerDB — can serve as design partners and early enterprise case studies, turning fund relationships into product validation loops