Where does Alston Lin work?

Alston Lin is Founder of OffDeal and Venture Partner at Orange Collective.

Where did Alston Lin go to school?

Alston Lin studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Software Engineering); Y Combinator.

Alston Lin

InvestorFounder

Venture Partner at Orange Collective · Founder at OffDeal

New York, New York, United States

FoundedOffDeal · YC

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About

Alston Lin is the founder and CTO of OffDeal. He previously founded and led engineering at Bizwise, and held software engineering roles at Meta, Google, Yelp, PagerDuty, IBM, and Encircle. He studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Founder at OffDeal YC W24

Intro paths

Alston went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran OffDeal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Alston can intro founders to OffDeal's investors below.

OffDeal's investors · 4

Centre Street PartnersNew York · $100K – $500K checks Radical VenturesToronto · $1M – $25M checks · since 2025 Rebel FundSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at OffDeal

Ori EldarovFounder

Experience

OffDealCo-founder / CTOcurrent2024 — presentNew York, NY
Orange CollectiveVenture Partnercurrent2025 — present
MetaSoftware Engineer2020 — 2023New York, United States
BizwiseCo-founder / CTO2018 — 2023
WATonomousDirector (Software)2019 — 2020Waterloo, Ontario
GoogleSoftware Engineer2019Greater Seattle Area
FacebookSoftware Engineer2019Menlo Park, California
PagerDutySite Reliability Engineer2018San Francisco, California
YelpSoftware Engineer2017San Francisco, California
IBMJavascript Developer2017Ottawa, Canada
TruTech InnovationsFounder / CEO2013 — 2016Markham, Ontario, Canada
Everest Media GroupFreelance Developer2016
EncircleSoftware Developer2016Kitchener, Canada
City of MarkhamLifeguard & Swim Instructor2012 — 2014Markham, Ontario, Canada

Skills & more

Java7Software Development6Computer Science5Mathematics2Business1Startup Development1Mobile Applications2Android Development6Customer Service6Teamwork4

Languages C · C# · C++ · English · French · Go · HTML / CSS · Japanese · Java · Javascript · Mandarin · Python

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Jason Freedman

General Partner at Peak State Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Who is Alston Lin?: Alston Lin is the founder and CTO of OffDeal. He previously founded and led engineering at Bizwise, and held software engineering roles at Meta, Google, Yelp, PagerDuty, IBM, and Encircle. He studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Where does Alston Lin work?: Alston Lin is Founder of OffDeal and Venture Partner at Orange Collective.
What companies did Alston Lin found?: Alston Lin founded OffDeal.
Where did Alston Lin go to school?: Alston Lin studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Software Engineering); Y Combinator.

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About

Founder at OffDealYC W24

Intro paths

OffDeal's investors · 4

Co-founders at OffDeal

Experience

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Colleagues at Orange Collective

Frequently asked questions

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia10,230

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PagerDuty mafia5

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Also attended University of Waterloo646

Also attended Y Combinator2,000

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Founder at OffDeal YC W24