Aaron Epstein
Group Partner at Y Combinator
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Group Partner
2020 - Current
Visiting Partner
2018 - 2020
Helping YC founders build amazing companies.
Co-Founder
2012 - 2018
Helping independent creators make a living doing what they love, and making beautiful design simple and accessible to everyone. Acquired by Autodesk in Feb 2014. Spun out again in July 2017.
Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets from independent creators around the world.
Raised $11,650,000.00 from Gabriel Hammond, Accomplice, Palm Drive Capital and Patrick Lor.
Director, Marketplace
2014 - 2017
Leading marketplaces for the Media & Entertainment group.
HSMWorks technology with its industry leading software and cloud services for manufacturing.
Co-Founder
2009 - 2014
Grew to more than 6M members. Nominated for Webby Award for Best Community 5 years in a row. Partnerships with Martha Stewart Living, Hearst, F+W Media, and other big brands.
COLOURlovers is a creative community enabling users to discuss trends, explore articles and share user-generated colors, palettes, patterns.
Raised $2,000,000.00 from Morado Ventures and Morado Ventures.
Founder
2000 - 2014
Bootstrapped to more than $1M in sales on PC, Mac, iOS and the web. Did all design, development, strategy, marketing, partnerships and support.