Wayfinder Ventures
Wayfinder Ventures is Yuri Sagalov’s investment firm in Yuri Sagalov on AeroFS, YC, Angel Investing, and Wayfinder Ventures. The episode says Sagalov moved into investing after AeroFS, a Y Combinator visiting-partner period, and years of informal angel investing with small LP pools.
Wayfinder’s source role is to connect founder experience with early B2B investing. Sagalov describes the fund as writing friendly checks, focusing on B2B startups, and helping founders with Founder-Led Sales from zero to roughly $1 million in revenue. His advice that founders should ask investors for references, including from difficult outcomes, makes Wayfinder part of the wiki’s Investor Reference Checking and founder-investor-quality branch.
Connections
- Yuri Sagalov - founder of the firm.
- AeroFS and Y Combinator - founder and advising background behind the investment thesis.
- Founder-Led Sales and Investor Reference Checking - concepts added by the source’s investing discussion.
- Outlier-Driven Angel Investing, Founder-Investor Learning, and Founder Product Fit - adjacent investing and founder-judgment concepts.