Colton Kaplan

Host of Change with Colton🎙 Podcast | Operations | Strategy | Lean Six Sigma | Supply Chain | Eliminating loneliness on the founder journey | Growing Founder Social Club Community

I am the founder of Founder Social Club, a community built to eliminate loneliness for founders by bringing them together with mentors, investors, and peers through intentional events, content, and conversation.

Over the past year, I have hosted 60 plus events and grown the community to over 26k founders, investors, and operators.

Founder Social Club is focused on signal over noise, real relationships, and creating environments where trust and long term thinking can compound.

I also host the Founder Social Club Podcast, where I sit down with founders and operators to talk candidly about product, growth, hiring, fundraising, failure, and what it actually takes to build.

My background spans operations, supply chain, and scaling teams at high velocity. I previously helped launch next generation automated fulfillment centers at Walmart eCommerce and have worked closely with cross functional teams to drive execution at scale.

Today, my focus is on building Founder Social Club into a multi city ecosystem across events, media, and membership while partnering with aligned sponsors and investors who care about founders and long term impact.

Always open to thoughtful conversations and partnerships.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, listening to podcasts, spending time with my wife, and playing with my Shih Tzu Mila.

Founder and Product Manager

• Developed UI/UX interface and integrated software automating and optimizing efficiency for the customer
• Created process flow and built product roadmap launching 5 products in six months increasing revenue by 50%
• Identified pain points of target market, conducted market research and launched MVP going from 0 to 1
• Implemented agile and scrum methodologies executing sprints resulting in 30% response rate for outreach
• Prioritizing tasks of managing CRM, sales cycle, product marketing, and product and business development
• Executed data-driven analysis of competitor landscape resulting in iterating pricing models and monetization strategies

Had a fantastic time hosting a Founder & Investor Happy Hour with ImagineArt last week!

Good food, real conversations, and a thoughtful group of founders & investors.

Thanks to Ahmed Abubakar and Shawal Fida for co-hosting and partnering.

Looking forward to the ImagineArt launch party this Friday in SF.

RSVP link in the comments.

#LaunchParty #SF #content

Founder Social Club

Podcast Host 🎙️| Founder Social Club | Eliminating loneliness for founders | VC Scout @ Headline

Building a company in the United States often brings immigration decisions into company structure, fundraising timing, and hiring earlier than expected.

Next week we are hosting Startup Immigration Playbook with Manifest Law covering visa options founders and startup teams often work through:
O-1, H-1B, EB-1A, EB-2

Some are temporary work visas while others are permanent residency paths. We will walk through when each is typically used, common approval mistakes, and what founders should start preparing early based on traction. There will be time for live questions as well.

Useful for founders, future founders planning a move, and teams working with global cofounders or hires.

Founder Social Club

#ManifestLaw #foundervisas #o1 #h1b #eb1a #eb2 #startups #immigration

When the right people are in the room, good things tend to happen.

Tomorrow Founder Social Club is co-hosting the Tech Career Showcase in SF at SVB with manny duenas 🛳️ (Intern Ship), and Steph Minaya & Jhillika Kumar (Mentra)!

Here are the teams joining us:

Trillboards, CEO - Sneh Dhruv
Building interactive real-world advertising experiences that connect physical spaces with digital engagement.

Currently Hiring:
• Account Executive
• Software Engineering Intern
​
SUN (a16z Speedrun), Co-founder & CEO - Artin Bogdanov
AI-powered audio learning app. AI podcasts and book summaries from a single prompt.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Full-Stack Mobile Engineer (Flutter/Dart)
• Founding Back-End Engineer (Python, AWS, Supabase, LLMs)
• Social Media Content Creator

JigsawStack - Founder - Yoeven D Khemlani
Developer platform helping teams integrate AI workflows and automation into real products faster.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Growth
• GTM Engineer

Azentic AI - Pradeep Padala & Aashish Parikh
Building AI agents that automate sales execution across CRM, meetings, and workflows.

Currently Hiring:
• Software Engineer
• AI/ML Engineer

​FUSE HEALTH INC 
Currently Hiring:
• CTO / Founding Engineer

Mentra
A San Francisco–based neurodivergent hiring platform and network. Mentra is building a future where neurodivergent talent is valued, supported, and matched with workplaces that truly understand ND needs.

Hiring for Microsoft roles: 
• Data Center Technician
• Critical Data Technician

GitHired - Krishna Oza
Sourcing early engineers and builders for high signal startups working on frontier AI and developer tools.

​Currently Hiring For Roam, Caddy, and The Token Company

Roam – Applied AI lab building world models for real time 3D environments (SF)
• Member of Technical Staff — Agents & Diffusion
• Applied AI/ML Developer

​Caddy (YC F25) – Agentic productivity platform working directly with founders (NYC, in person)
• Software Engineer — Core Systems

The Token Company (YC W26) – ML lab focused on state of the art LLM input optimization (SF, pre seed)
• ML Engineer — Early Team

See you tomorrow.

Let’s get people hired 🚀

Founder Social Club is launching a new series called The Reserve on Wednesday 2/25!

Excited to partner with HubSpot (Mahir Kumar Singh) & Azentic AI (Pradeep Padala & Aashish Parikh), this is a small, curated room for 20–25 founders & investors.

The goal is simple: create a space where people can slow down and actually get to know the people in the room.

Every guest is intentionally selected so the conversations feel natural.

This first edition includes a margarita making class and live cooking demo. Shared experiences just make conversations easier.

For founders doing $500K+ ARR or $500K+ raised, and investors actively backing companies.

Approval required. Location shared after acceptance. 21+.

If this sounds like your kind of room, message me.

#FSC #HubspotForStartups #Azentic

Another fun week ahead at Founder Social Club.

Tomorrow we are hosting a Co-working & Lunch at SVB from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm. Come get work done, meet great people, and have real conversations.

Thank you Baargav Duggirala from Chargebee and Viet Andy Nguyen from SVB for partnering with us on this one.

Also, excited to co-host the Tech Career Showcase on Thursday 2/19 with my friends manny duenas 🛳️ from Intern Ship and Steph Minaya from Mentra.

We have strong talent across engineering, GTM, product, design, and other functions exploring their next role.

We have a few hiring table spots left for startups actively hiring full-time roles.
If you are hiring full time, DM me.

RSVP links in the comments.

#Startups #coworking #hiring #events #sf

Excited to bring together founders and investors tomorrow in San Francisco for the Global Founder & Investor Summit.

Founder Social Club and Venture Bridge Hub are gathering ecosystem leaders from Africa, London, Europe, and Silicon Valley for an evening focused on cross-border connections, startup pitches, and real conversations.

Featured Speakers
• Marsha Wulff — Co-Founder LoftyInc Capital
 • David Hubert — VP of External Relations EuroCham - Association of American European Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations
 • Borja Palma Huarte — Business Development Manager @ London & Partners
 • Alfredo Coppola — Co-CEO @ US Market Access Center

Startup Judges
• Evan Buhler — Founder + General Partner @ Talok Capital
• Ulvi Rashid — Founding Partner @ Traction Fund
• Pasquale Zaccarella — Shareholder & Investor @ Eden ventures

Grateful to Daniel Fidanque and the team at Manifest Law for partnering on the event and supporting founders building across borders and to Bryan & Viet Andy Nguyen at SVB for hosting us.

Should be a great room of founders and investors building across borders.

Should be a great room.
See you tomorrow in San Francisco.

Excited to bring 4 more companies hiring!!! Join us later today at SVB.

Trainsit - The AI-first platform to allow businesses to optimize and convert their supply chain towards rail, the better option for the environment and wallet. 
• 2 Founding Engineers

SigIQ.ai - Democratizing Personalized 1:1 Learning for Everyone
• Senior Product Designer
• Senior Full Stack Engineer

NexDiscovery - Agentic AI that monitors enterprise data, uncovers hidden insights, and takes action before teams even know to ask.
• Founding Enterprise AE
• FDE / Solutions Architect
• Pilot Program Lead
• Chief of Staff
• Partner Channel Sales

​Regulis AI - Developing AI products for the transportation industry. 
• Software Engineer
• AI/ML Engineer

RSVP here: https://luma.com/s396by7m

If you’re a new grad or early career right now, you know jobs are hard to get.

That’s why I’m co hosting my third hiring experience with Colton Kaplan - Founder Social Club, Steph Minaya and Jhillika Kumar - Mentra to help people find opportunities. (Link to register in the comments)

This isn’t a traditional job fair.
Smaller room.
Founders introducing themselves.
Human conversations.

And I’ll say it clearly:

Startups are one of the most powerful pathways into a career right now.

When you join early, you get proximity, ownership, speed, and real reps.

Here are the teams pitching and hiring today:

🚀 Trillboards  
CEO: Sneh Dhruv 
Building interactive real-world advertising experiences that connect physical spaces with digital engagement.

Currently Hiring:
• Account Executive
• Software Engineering Intern

🎧 SUN (a16z Speedrun)

Co-founder & CEO: Artin Bogdanov
AI-powered audio learning app. AI podcasts and book summaries from a single prompt.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Full-Stack Mobile Engineer (Flutter/Dart)
• Founding Back-End Engineer (Python, AWS, Supabase, LLMs)
• Social Media Content Creator

🧩 JigsawStack 

Founder: Yoeven D Khemlani
Developer platform helping teams integrate AI workflows and automation into real products faster.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Growth
• GTM Engineer

🤖 Azentic AI

Pradeep Padala & Aashish Parikh  
Building AI agents that automate sales execution across CRM, meetings, and workflows.

Currently Hiring:
• Software Engineer
• AI/ML Engineer

🏥 FUSE HEALTH INC  
Currently Hiring:
• CTO / Founding Engineer

🧠 Mentra  
A San Francisco–based neurodivergent hiring platform and network building a future where neurodivergent talent is valued and supported.

Hiring for Microsoft roles:
• Data Center Technician
• Critical Data Technician

🔎 GitHired – Krishna Oza 
Sourcing early engineers and builders for high-signal startups working on frontier AI and developer tools.

Currently Hiring For Roam, Caddy, and The Token Company:

Roam – Applied AI lab building world models for real time 3D environments (SF)
• Member of Technical Staff — Agents & Diffusion
• Applied AI/ML Developer

​Caddy (YC F25) – Agentic productivity platform working directly with founders (NYC, in person)
• Software Engineer — Core Systems

The Token Company (YC W26) – ML lab focused on state of the art LLM input optimization (SF, pre seed)
• ML Engineer — Early Team

(See the rest of the companies hiring in the comments.)

Smaller sessions.
Deeper conversations.
Space to engage at your pace.

We’re creating human first hirng experiences.

Let’s get people hired 🚀

Join manny duenas 🛳️ and the Intern Ship talent network. Things are coming. 👀

#talentnetwork

I’m super happy to announce…



I’ve decided to launch the best talent community the world has ever seen!

Welcome to the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤!

Join to get access to a hidden job market and more human first IRL hiring experiences.

This is personal for me.

When I started the Intern Ship, I was a University Recruiter at Intuit helping students land jobs there.

Which meant every time someone walked up to me at one of my Intern Ship events asking me to help them find a job - I had to tell them

“Oh sorry I can only hire for Intuit.” Which often times wasn’t even hiring yet.

That happened A LOT. It was literally one of the biggest reasons people kept coming to my events - they wanted to meet recruiters.

I heard them loud and clear. I just couldn’t do anything about it.

UNTIL I LEFT.

Now that I’m free from corporate and any conflicts of interest I’m locked in to helping my community find more opportunities.

Drop a 🛳️ in the comments, like and I'll send you the link to join.

Follow me so I can send you a DM!

NTT Data

Process an average of 25 claims a day
Maintain an average of 98% for handling claim processes a
Review transaction history to document timelines and recommend the required set of next steps
Handle transaction processing software and provide input to enhance system functionality
Review medical records and/or end to end claims adjudicate
Identify opportunities that can enhance customer experience
Analyze vast volumes of data accurately 
Provide feedback to build/enhance process automation solutions
Identify potential fraud cases and forward to Special Investigations Unit

Health Care & Medical Insurance Operations Analyst

Highmark Health

Maintain an average of 97% for call quality and handling correspondence 
Respond to and resolve inquiries from members, providers, facilities, and other Blues plans
Handle all inquiries and service incoming and outbound calls and correspondence
Utilize and interpret appropriate reference materials and other necessary resources in responding to inquiries
Communicate with internal and external customers via phone, email, online, and in writing
Take ownership of problems and establish relationships with all customers 
Demonstrate an ability to communicate the contract benefits and requirements to the customer; communicate various plan benefit differences
Identify potential problems and inconsistencies, recommend and forward to Sr. Representative and/or management for solution
Assist with compiling data, provide necessary support to resolve cases
Perform online transactions and/or adjustments for claims processed via the Blue Card Program
Determine claim disposition by reviewing correspondence, Host coordination of benefits (COB) information, and claim inquiry history 
Research, track, and follow up on information regarding claim benefits, eligibility and all other aspects of business
Update appropriate systems to reflect accurate information
Identify potential fraud cases and forward to Special Investigations Unit
Maintain confidentiality and adhere to HIPAA regulations

Service Claims Rep Blue Card

EXL Trumbull Services

● Improving new hire orientations and onboarding processes, as well as implementing an employee wellness program, resulted in a 7% increase in employee retention and a 5% increase in business optimization.
● Coordinate medical personnel's schedules and staff training programs in adherence to company policies as well as health care laws and regulations, which has also contributed to the 7% increase in employee retention and a 25% increase in the overall patient experience based on the previous 2 years of patient satisfaction surveys.
● Develop and manage scope, schedule, and budget for each project.
● Provide a measurable and timely response to client inquiries, work requests, and concerns.
● Communicate directly with clients to define project goals and provide reports on project status and variances.
● Coordinate a project team of key stakeholders, internal team members, and vendor partners who meet the deliverables
of the project.
● Develop and maintain complete knowledge of vendor service and material capabilities, processes, and deliverables.
● Ensure that projects run smoothly and on schedule by proactively identifying risks and appropriately escalating
concerns and potential solutions to impacted parties.
● Route and book FOB and DDP orders.
● Process invoices in the internal system.
● Route customer orders and track deliveries in a timely manner.
● Monitor shipment status and discrepancies, and work with customers to provide solutions.
● Maintain accurate open order logs and communicate updates to both the purchasing and operations teams.
● Liaise and negotiate with suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers.

Assistant Project Manager

GEICO

● Maintained staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees, decreasing the learning curve by 10%.
● Developed personal growth opportunities, improving overall employee satisfaction by 15% based on the previous 2 years of employee satisfaction surveys.
● Resolved claim issues promptly and followed up on outstanding issues; analyzed, planned, made decisions, and solved problems to support claim settlement, which resulted in an individual customer satisfaction score of 95% based on the previous 4 years of customer surveys and an overall team customer satisfaction score of 98% based on the previous 2 years of customer surveys.
● Completed operations by developing schedules, assigning and monitoring work, gathering resources, implementing productivity standards, resolving operations problems, maintaining reference manuals, and implementing new procedures.
● Evaluated the facts of loss of auto claims and examined file materials (police reports, recorded statements, photographs, etc.) and determined liability for auto claims.
● Presented persuasive arguments through written contentions and gathered evidence.
● Maintained quality claim filings in accordance with department expectations.
● Communicated effectively with customers, insurance agents, police, attorneys, and other public personnel involved in the claim process.
● Ensured that the claims were not fraudulent.
● Negotiated settlements and authorized payments, while keeping records of all actions for the customer’s file.
● Handled over 50 customer calls per day.

Auto Claims Representative, Supervisor & Arbitration Clerk

Blocher Homes

● Prepared course materials, such as syllabi and handouts, for distribution or use within the training class and introduced new learning tools to address individual needs, decreasing the learning curve by 5%.
● Trained and mentored approximately 15 employees, contributing to the 5% decrease in the learning curve and increasing employee retention also by 5%.
● Monitored over 30 residents a day.
● Determined specific needs and provided appropriate levels of services for residents’ well-being.
● Documented residents' mental status, sleep, and eating patterns in medical record books.
● Consulted with supervisors to assess cases and plan strategies for enhancing care.
● Planned, prepared, and served meals and snacks according to prescribed diets.
● Provided assistance to residents with respect to personal care, including feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, and toileting.

Personal Care Aide & Coach

Dedicated and ambitious healthcare professional with clinical and operational experience, as well as a track record of meeting company goals through consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

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