About GCOAT

Building the Greatest Community of All Time

GCOAT helps community leaders match the people at their events and see what those connections grow into.

Where it came from

Born in rooms we loved running.

Building Dell for Startups meant 100+ partners and hundreds of events — accelerators, economic development groups, investors and founders. The energy in those rooms was real — people met who were meant to. We built GCOAT so that energy lasts past the last handshake.

100+ partnersHundreds of eventsPittsburgh & Austin
“So we stopped designing the event and started designing what happens before and after it.”
YJ LinFounder

Team

Product & Community

  • YJ Lin
    YJ LinFounder, Community Architect
  • Sid Joshi
    Sid JoshiFounding AI Engineer
  • Yoon Cho
    Yoon ChoFounding Engineer
  • Justin Tan
    Justin TanFounding Full-Stack Engineer
  • Michelle Zheng
    Michelle ZhengFounding Product Lead
  • John Giles IIIFounding Data Engineer

Research & Data Insights

  • Amreen Khan
    Amreen KhanResearch Fellow, Community Wellbeing
  • Ke-Hsuan ChuResearch Fellow, Community Wellbeing
  • Giovanni GovertData Analyst
  • Kaylee Seo
    Kaylee SeoData Scientist
  • Jasmine Chen
    Jasmine ChenDesign Strategy Consultant

Picture the room six months from now.

Everyone who came knows three more people. Your sponsor knows exactly what the night built.