YC General Partners

Every YC partner founded a YC-funded company before.

Garry TanPosterous, S08

Co-founder of Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and Initialized Capital. Early engineer at Palantir, designed company logo.

Harj TaggarAuctomatic, W07

Co-founder and CEO of Triplebyte (acquired by Karat) and Auctomatic (acquired by Live Current Media). Graduated from Oxford.

Jared FriedmanScribd, S06

Co-founder of Scribd, one of the top 100 sites on the web. Harvard CS dropout.

Aaron EpsteinCreative Market, W10

Co-founder of Creative Market, generating over $100M in sales for independent creators worldwide.

Diana HuEscher Reality, S17

Co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (acquired by Niantic). Shipped AR tech for Pokémon GO to 100M+ users and grew up in Chile.

Gustaf AlströmerHeysan, W07

Led Growth at Airbnb for 4.5 years. Co-founder of Heysan. Previously Head of Growth at Voxer.

Nicolas DessaigneAlgolia, W14

Co-founder of Algolia, a Search API used by millions of developers. PhD in Computer Science.

Tom BlomfieldGoCardless, S11

Co-founder of Monzo (£500M raised, 10% UK population). Founded GoCardless. Awarded OBE in 2019.

Brad FloraPerfect Audience, S11

Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Audience (acquired by Marin Software). Active angel investor and Slate contributor.

Pete KoomenOptimizely, W10

Co-founder of Optimizely, grew to $100M+ ARR before acquisition. Master’s in CS from UIUC.

Ankit GuptaReverie Labs, W18

Co-founder and CTO of Reverie Labs (acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks). Deep learning researcher in language, vision, and biology.

Tyler BosmenyClever, S12

Co-founder and CEO of Clever (acquired for $500M). Used by 60% of US students.

David LiebBump, S09

Co-founder and CEO of Bump (150M+ users, acquired by Google). Co-founder of Google Photos (1B+ users).

Andrew MiklasPagerDuty, S10

Co-founder & CTO of PagerDuty (NYSE:PD), the first incident management platform and used by half of the Fortune 500. University of Waterloo & Toronto grad.

Jon XuFutureAdvisor, S10

Co-founder and CTO of FutureAdvisor (acquired by BlackRock). Built robo-advisor platform for financial institutions. MIT EECS grad.