About
Israel Akintunde previously held the role of VP of Engineering before founding Flux, a mobile financial platform that enables international money transfers and multi-currency account management.
Founder at FluxYC W21
Intro paths
YC
Israel went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Flux's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Israel can intro founders to Flux's investors below.
Flux's investors · 8
8VCAustin · $100K – $50M checks · since 2026Bain Capital VenturesBoston · $1M – $100M checks · since 2026Calibrate VenturesPasadena · $5M checks · since 2026Flori VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checksGlasswing VenturesBoston · $100K – $5M checks · since 2026Liquid VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $5M checks · since 2026True VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checks · since 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021
Co-founders at Flux
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Ben EluanFounder
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Osezele OrukpeFounder
Experience
- Elastic AILead JavaScript Engineer (AI Tooling)current2025 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
- BlueloopCofounder & Lead Frontend Engineercurrent2019 — presentDelaware, United States
- Insomnia LabsSenior Frontend Engineer2024 — 2025New York, United States
- PipeOps (Techstars '23)Frontend Consultant2022 — 2024Middletown, Delaware, United States
- PATRICIAFrontend Developer2020 — 2021Lagos State, Nigeria
Skills & more
Design EngineeringTypeScriptMaintainabilityDesign PatternsPaymentsBankingFluxGulp.jsOptimizationUser Experience (UX)Semantic HTMLGitlab
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Software ArchitectureFront-End DesignApplication DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentData EngineeringWeb DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentWeb DesignClean CodingNext.jsReact.jsweb3.jsFrom Israel's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Israel Akintunde?
- Israel Akintunde previously held the role of VP of Engineering before founding Flux, a mobile financial platform that enables international money transfers and multi-currency account management.
- Where does Israel Akintunde work?
- Israel Akintunde is Founder of Flux.
- What companies did Israel Akintunde found?
- Israel Akintunde founded Flux.
- Where did Israel Akintunde go to school?
- Israel Akintunde studied at Y Combinator.
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