Maxwell Salzberg

Founder

Berkeley, California

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

About

Maxwell Salzberg is CEO and co-founder of BackerKit, a crowdfunding platform that has reached $23.7M in annual recurring revenue and facilitated $3.7B in campaigns across 10,000+ creators globally. He previously co-founded Diaspora, a YC-backed project that was the first Kickstarter campaign to exceed $100K in funding. Salzberg holds a degree in Computer Science from NYU.

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Founder at BackerKit YC S12

Intro paths

Maxwell went through Y Combinator (Summer 2012) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Maxwell can intro founders to BackerKit's investors below.

BackerKit's investors · 1

Y Combinator

Co-founders at BackerKit

Rosanna YauFounder

Experience

BackerKitCEO/Co-Foundercurrent2012 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
DiasporaCo-Founder2010 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area

Education

New York UniversityB.S. Computer Science, Computer Science
Y Combinator

Skills & more

Product LeadershipCommunity BuildingProduct DevelopmentTest-Driven DevelopmentStartupsCrowdfunding1EntrepreneurshipPair ProgrammingTest Driven DevelopmentBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)Lean StartupStart-ups

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Web ScrapingRuby on RailsOpen Source SoftwareSoftware as a Service (SaaS)RubyBagelsPostgreSQLJavaScriptboston terriersWeb Surfing

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