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Aaron Epstein

Group Partner at Y Combinator

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Aaron Epstein is a Group Partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, California, with a background in entrepreneurship and product management. He has co-founded Creative Market, worked as a Director at Autodesk, and invested in various successful startups including Accend and Kobalt Labs. Epstein's career highlights include founding COLOURlovers and ColorSchemer, investing in a range of companies across different sectors and stages, and currently serving as a key figure at Y Combinator, a renowned startup accelerator.

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.

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