From Y Combinator to Sharetribe's partner network to the Bay Area founder community — here's where Horizon Labs shows up, and what membership means in practice.
Our co-founder Sinan Sari is a YC S19 alumnus (Cuboh). We actively work with YC founders on product development — Bloom (YC W21), Arketa, and Flair Labs (YC S22) are past clients.
Certified Sharetribe Expert Partners. We're listed in their official partner directory and maintain a direct relationship with their team for complex integrations and roadmap access.
5.0 rating on Clutch. Clutch independently verifies review authenticity through client interviews — our rating reflects real project outcomes, not self-reported scores.
Saif Akhtar is embedded in the San Jose startup community — founding team at Cresance and Intellus.ai, early employee and investor across multiple pre-seed companies.
Several of our senior engineers came through top-tier engineering organizations (Google, Meta, Amazon). We hire referrals within this network for AI and systems-level work.
Serdar Pehlivan served as Vice Dean of Engineering at Zirve University. Our Istanbul engineering team draws from Turkey's strongest CS and engineering programs.
We contribute to the Sharetribe user community — publishing technical guides, reviewing marketplace strategies, and answering questions from operators building on the platform.
Our engineers are active users and contributors to the AI-native development ecosystem — Cursor, Claude, N8N workflows, and MCP server development. We publish learnings internally and share externally when we can.
A significant portion of our new clients come from introductions by past clients. Bloom introduced Kidsy. Arketa introduced SetCircle. This is the community we're most protective of — referrals get 15% off their first milestone.
If someone in our network sent you here, mention their name. Referred founders get 15% off their first milestone.
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