#90 Dalton Caldwell

Dalton Caldwell #90 Managing director, architect, and group partner, Y Combinator As his LinkedIn profile says, Dalton Caldwell likes startups. He doesn’t limit himself to a single sector, but calls himself a generalist. For instance, Caldwell founded the appointment-booking app App.net and the music-streaming social-media website iMeem, which Myspace acquired for less than $1 million. “I look for a combination of technical skills, optimism, and resilience in a team at the seed stage,” Caldwell said. And in 2019, he tweeted, “It seems that optimism, rather than money, is the fuel that startups at the earliest stages run on.” Caldwell has made 10 investments in seed and early-stage companies this year, including a lending service called Lendflow and Moonshot Brands, an ecommerce startup that raised $180 million in total funding in March. Source: businessInsider