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Rich Aberman

Rich Aberman

Fintech founder turned OSS investor

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Santa Cruz, California
Joined May 2025
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Fintech founder and product leader who built WePay from an early YC startup into a scaled payments platform: led product and strategy, helped raise significant venture capital, grew the company to several hundred employees, and navigated an acquisition by JPMorgan Chase. ycombinator+2
Operator-to-advisor transition: after integrating WePay into JPMorgan Chase and running Chase Payment Solutions, Aberman moved into startup advising and investing — serving as a YC visiting group partner (W22–S23), investing in and mentoring many early-stage companies, and joining Open Core Ventures to build/scale open-core startups. ycombinator+2
Payments, risk and platform expertise: public interviews and podcast appearances highlight his domain knowledge around embedded payments, risk/fraud prevention, product-market fit for platform businesses, and strategies for innovating inside large financial institutions. appdirect+2
Early-stage investor and community builder: active angel investor and partner at a seed-focused firm (Open Core Ventures) with a track record of advising YC founders and participating in many seed rounds; combines operator experience with direct founder support and recruiting/co‑founder formation for open-source-based startups. opencoreventures+2

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has built a reputation for being especially helpful to YC founders after investing at the seed stage.

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