Fundraising Fox
Find your path to Simon
Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Simon
- Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to Simon. We find them for you
- 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
- Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone
Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.
About
Founder and CTO of Hilstart, who previously worked as a firmware engineer at Aquila.
CTO at HilstartYC S26
Intro paths
Simon went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Hilstart's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Simon can intro founders to Hilstart's investors below.
Hilstart's investors · 1
Co-founders at Hilstart
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Simon Alexander?
- Founder and CTO of Hilstart, who previously worked as a firmware engineer at Aquila.
- Where does Simon Alexander work?
- Simon Alexander is CTO of Hilstart.
- What companies did Simon Alexander found?
- Simon Alexander founded Hilstart.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,594
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
University of Auckland mafia103
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
About this profile. Compiled from public sources — Hilstart's own website and public professional profiles — and summarised by Fundraising Fox; every fact is kept with where it came from. Spotted an error, or would rather not be listed? Email privacy@fundraisingfox.com · How we build profiles · Your rights