◆ Lance Yan

Projects|About me|Photos
↳ Founder CliceClice
↳ CS UWaterlooUWaterloo
◆ What makes me different:
↳ Built ratemycompany.caratemycompany.ca, got 40K+ users and 2.5M+ votes within 48h.
↳ Implemented measures to prevent 1K+ bots from getting their fav company on the podium (4M+ edge requests in 12h).
↳ The fastest in UWaterlooUWaterloo's entire history to get flown out to San Francisco to raise venture.
↳ Turned down $7M valuation offers to build CliceClice heads-down in Waterloo.
↳ Received full-time interest for: $300K founding engineer role and another at IconIcon, but decided to go all in on building CliceClice.
↳ Programming since age 5, entrepreneur since age 11.
↳ Software Engineer/Builder at KalshiKalshi.
↳ Project dropping soon!
↳ Lead Software engineer at UWaterlooUWaterloo's AI organization, wat.aiwat.ai.
↳ Growth at SymbalSymbal, backed by Peter Thiel and Founders FundFounders Fund.
↳ Fellow at BoardyBoardy, Fall 2025 Cohort.
↳ Mentored by some amazing people. Including founders from YCY Combinator, speedrunspeedrun, Z FellowsZ Fellows and Thiel FellowsThiel Fellowship.
↳ 3000+ followers on LinkedInLinkedIn, 1400+ followers on X, with posts totaling 1.6M+ views.
◆ Building:
↳ CliceClice. AI agents for the lending industry.
↳ Backed by angels from Y CombinatorY Combinator, a16za16z, and Soma CapitalSoma Capital.
↳ Backed by my own school, UWaterlooUWaterloo's Velocity FundVelocity Fund.
↳ Invited to Velocity IncubatorVelocity Incubator's Winter 2025 cohort.
↳ ratemycompany.caratemycompany.ca. Startups leaderboard coming soon. 👀
↳ If you want your high-growth startup added please contact me!
◆ Please reach out if you're
↳ A fellow founder.
↳ Someone who is curious about me or what I'm doing.