Nathan Kontny
FounderFounder at Draft · Founder/CTO at Inkling
Greater Chicago Area
FoundedDraft · YCInkling · YC
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About
Nathan Kontny is the founder of AlliHat and a founding engineer at Census, where he contributed to product development as the company progressed from Seed to Series B funding. He previously served as CEO of Highrise, a CRM tool, and built the AI-powered productivity app Tres Cosas. His technical work includes development in Ruby, JavaScript, React Native, and Rails, and he is a Y Combinator alumnus.
Founder at DraftYC S11
Intro paths
Nathan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2011) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Founder/CTO at InklingYC W06
Intro paths
Nathan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2006) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Nathan can intro founders to Inkling's investors below.
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Experience
- AlliHatFoundercurrent2026 — present
- FivetranSenior Staff Software Engineercurrent2025 — present
- CensusFounding Engineercurrent2020 — present
- Tres CosasFoundercurrent2024 — present
- Ninjas and RobotsFoundercurrent2019 — presentGreater Chicago Area
- CityposhFounder2011 — 2022
- Rockstar CodersCTO/CMO2018 — 2020
- Highrise HQCEO2014 — 2018
- Inkling Inc.Founder/CTO2006 — 2012
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nathan Kontny?
- Nathan Kontny is the founder of AlliHat and a founding engineer at Census, where he contributed to product development as the company progressed from Seed to Series B funding. He previously served as CEO of Highrise, a CRM tool, and built the AI-powered productivity app Tres Cosas. His technical work includes development in Ruby, JavaScript, React Native, and Rails, and he is a Y Combinator alumnus.
- Where does Nathan Kontny work?
- Nathan Kontny is Founder of Draft and Founder/CTO at Inkling.
- What companies did Nathan Kontny found?
- Nathan Kontny founded Draft, Inkling.
- Where did Nathan Kontny go to school?
- Nathan Kontny studied at Y Combinator (S11); Y Combinator (W06); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Bachelors, Chemical Engineering).
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