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Nate Laquis

Nate Laquis

Co-founder and CEO, Kanopy Labs

Technical founder who has built and shipped consumer platforms at scale, across mobile, web, SaaS, data infrastructure, e-commerce and AI.

Experience

Live-events ticketing platform

Full rebuild and engineering leadership

Rebuilt the entire application in 2021, then ran engineering as in-house CTO, hiring and building the team. Event pages, ticketing, guest lists, SMS and email marketing, affiliate tracking and instant payouts. The company has since raised $60M+ and grown to a 50+ person team.

$350M+ in ticket sales, 1M+ users

Creator-economy marketplace

Early-stage engineering

Built the frontend for the authentication infrastructure and provided engineering and software consulting during the early stages of a marketplace for digital products, memberships and communities. Now 180K+ sellers.

$2.67B+ lifetime GMV, 18M+ users

Vybes

End-to-end build

Curated dating app built around video-first connection: ID verification, 15-minute video calls, real-time video infrastructure, marketing site and the whole product.

$10M valuation, backed by the founder of Cameo

Dropify

End-to-end build

SaaS for e-commerce sellers tracking real-time TikTok sales and ad performance. Product validation, margin analysis and one-click import to Shopify.

$10K MRR in month one

E-commerce storefronts

End-to-end build

Custom storefronts and checkout flows with payment processing, inventory management, conversion optimization and analytics.

$300K+ monthly revenue

CRC Sports Group

End-to-end build

Discovery site for parents looking for youth sports camps: verified coach profiles, program pages and local SEO built for enrollment.

Live and active

Internal CRM and data systems

End-to-end build

Custom systems tying SMS, email, calendar, Zoom and company data into one place to automate follow-ups and workflows, plus large-scale scrapers and BI dashboards.

Multiple deployments

Skills

Builds

Mobile appsWeb applications and SaaSBackend and infrastructureAI and data systemsProduct strategy and launchInternal systems and tools

Stack

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsMongoDBPostgreSQLReact NativeFlutterSwiftAWSGraphQLREST APIsWebSocketsPythonTailwind CSS

Contact

Based in

Boston and New York

Let's build something together.

A technical co-founder, a product partner or an engineering team. Thirty minutes to find out which.

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