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# Founder pitch — pixel.fund
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Founder: Maya Chen (CEO, ex-Stripe), co-founder Aria Patel (CTO,
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ex-Robinhood). YC W26.
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## What
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A donation-budget tool for solo creators. Set a monthly $ floor for
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causes you care about, pixel.fund auto-allocates each dollar across your
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chosen orgs (Direct Relief, GiveDirectly, etc.) the moment a Stripe
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payout lands. One-line embeddable receipt. 1% platform fee.
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## Traction
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- 2026-04-01 launched private beta with 14 creators from her newsletter
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- 2026-05-15 hit 51 paying creators, $4,200 MRR
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- Waitlist of 230 from a single tweet by a tech-Twitter influencer
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- Two creators asked about a "team plan" (multi-seat) unprompted
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## Status quo
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Creators today either (a) write checks ad-hoc and forget about it, or
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(b) use Patreon-style platforms where the "cause" is opaque (general
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fund). Maya talked to 40 creators in YC interviews — 31 said they "want
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to give more but it's mental overhead."
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## What Maya wants from office hours
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Should she chase the team-plan signal, or go deeper on the solo flow
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first? She's two weeks from running out of YC dorm food.
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