About
Tak Alguire is co-founder and CEO of Serial. He spent five years in manufacturing operations roles at Apple, North, and Fleetcarma, where he worked on deploying data infrastructure for hardware products including iPhones and Apple Watches.
Founder at SerialYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Tak went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Serial's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Tak can intro founders to Serial's investors below.
Serial's investors · 1
Co-founders at Serial
DC
Devon CopelandFounder
Experience
- LumafieldHead of Productcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- LumafieldChief of Staff2025 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- LumafieldProduct Manager2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- SerialCo-Founder & CEO2022 — 2024
- AppleMQE - Inspection Technologies2021 — 2022
- AppleMQE - Inspection Technologies2019 — 2021
- NorthManufacturing Engineer2017 — 2018Kitchener, Canada Area
- FleetCarmaProduct Operations & Vehicle Applications2016Waterloo, Ontario
Skills & more
Computer Hardware10Microsoft Office9Databases5Windows3Operating Systems4Windows XP3Windows Server2Active Directory2Leadership14Teamwork11Hardware12Software10
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NetworkingComputer RepairTechnical SupportTroubleshootingSoftware InstallationLanguages English
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
From Tak's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Tak Alguire?
- Tak Alguire is co-founder and CEO of Serial. He spent five years in manufacturing operations roles at Apple, North, and Fleetcarma, where he worked on deploying data infrastructure for hardware products including iPhones and Apple Watches.
- Where does Tak Alguire work?
- Tak Alguire is Founder of Serial.
- What companies did Tak Alguire found?
- Tak Alguire founded Serial.
- Where did Tak Alguire go to school?
- Tak Alguire studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Electrical Engineering); Y Combinator.
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University of Waterloo mafia200
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Same school
Also attended University of Waterloo357
Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder & CEO of Social CapitalApoorva MehtaFounder of Instacart; founder of Cloud Health SystemsKarim GillaniGeneral Partner at Luge CapitalRohan MongaInvestment Associate at Luge CapitalAndrew MiklasGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorAniTalent Team at Hummingbird Ventures
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Shared employers
Also worked at Lumafield5
Also worked at Apple489
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