Summary
Marty Kausas is a San Francisco-based software entrepreneur and founder focused on reimagining customer support with Pylon, a unified platform that tracks issues across Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams, Communities, email, in-app chat, and more. As Co-Founder and CEO of Pylon Labs, he leads the product vision and go-to-market strategy for a YC W23-backed startup aiming to be the Zendesk killer for B2B teams. His background includes software engineering roles at Airbnb and Yelp, leadership of Purdue Hackers, and hands-on technical teaching, giving him both strong coding chops and startup-operational savvy. Since 2024 he has extended into angel investing with Andreessen Horowitz's scout fund, bringing technical insight to early-stage founders. Based in the Bay Area, he is known for turning ambitious product ideas into scalable platforms and for bridging product, engineering, and customer success to drive measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
English, Lithuanian, Chinese