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Founder29Current founder
37th percentile
Investor30Current investor
71st percentile
Combined
YC S19 climate-tech founder building carbon capture at Holy Grail
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Firm Standing · 31th percentile
- Publicly identified as an angel investor backing YC startups via Orange Collective.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator alum (Holy Grail, S19).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Holy Grail, a carbon capture startup.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Raised $3M seed for Holy Grail from Y Combinator, Lowercarbon Capital, Patrick Collison, and Kevin Durant.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Multiple founded companies had co-founders (Holy Grail, 10xbattery, Powa).
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past co-founder of Powa (longboards) and 10xbattery.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)480 reputation on Stack Overflow.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Venture Partner at Orange Collective, a YC-alumni investment collective.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor backing YC startups via Orange Collective.
What you likely need
You're running a deep-tech carbon-capture company post-YC S19 while doing venture-partner work at Orange Collective, so the highest-leverage Festival events for you blend climate-tech operator depth with YC-network dealflow. Prioritize small dinners with fellow YC founders scaling hard-tech, and roundtables where you can source strong S25/S26 companies for OC.
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.
- tacticalA YC founder dinner for climate/hard-tech CEOs (S19 cohort + adjacent batches) to trade notes on FOAK financing and off-take deals.
- introsAn Orange Collective venture-partner roundtable to pressure-test current YC batch investment theses with other YC-alum backers.
- fundraisingA Lowercarbon Capital / climate-VC happy hour to warm up follow-on conversations for Holy Grail's next round.
- positioningA workshop with corporate carbon-credit buyers (post-Morgan Stanley deal) to expand Holy Grail's offtake pipeline.
- hiringA hard-tech hiring mixer to recruit electrochemistry and robotics engineers for Holy Grail's 12-person research team.
- tacticalA tactical dinner on Bayesian ML + robotics for materials discovery with founders running similar autonomous-lab stacks.
- wellbeingA wellbeing dinner for founder-investors juggling a company (Holy Grail) and a VC role (Orange Collective) at the same time.