
Venture with Grace Gabriel Jarrosson, Lobster Capital VC on YC Startups & Founder Lessons
Nov 26, 2025
01:02:36
Gabriel Jarrosson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lobster Capital, an early-stage fund that invests exclusively in the top-performing Y Combinator startups. After bootstrapping a prior company to $1M ARR with no employees and investing tens of millions of dollars across 100+ YC companies, he built Lobster Capital around a traction- and data-driven thesis, backing the top 2% of YC teams and coaching them through the messy realities of product-market fit, founder psychology, and scaling. Topics:
- Inside the YC Power Curve: How Lobster Capital Identifies the Top 2% of Founders
- Founder Psychology: Lessons From Backing 100+ YC Teams Through Chaos and Breakthroughs
- A Bootstrapped Operator’s Playbook: From $1M ARR Solo to a Data-Driven VC Fund
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