Mark Rachapoom

Co-Founder & CEO of Dench (dench.com)
Founded Merse
Y Combinator S24 Batch
Vercel AI Accelerator Fellow: 6 weeks. 40 participants. $850k in credits.
Creator of Diary Dingo — hit top 3 in <24 hours in lifestyle category after the first launch on App Store
Selected as one of 100 students nationwide for the AFS exchange program in the USA, 2019.
Granted by David Senra of Founders Podcast to attend Founders Only in Austin, Texas
Resident @ Nonce Community (논스) in Seoul
Resident @ Arcadia, hacker house in Berkeley
Talent Protocol Fellow — a recipient of a full-grant Talent House scholarship to Paris

Mark Rachapoom and Kumar Abhirup outside Y Combinator — Me & Kumar

Mark Rachapoom with Naval Ravikant in San Francisco — Walking with Naval

Merse at Times SquareMerse at NYC Times Square

With Eric JorgensonWith Eric Jorgenson, Austin

Mark with Garry Tan and Michael Seibel at Y Combinator — Garry Tan and Michael Seibel

Appeared On

Business Insider

13 creator-economy startups to watch in 2024, according to top VCs

It sometimes feels like Big Tech has gobbled up the creator economy, leaving little room for newcomers. Platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok facilitate billions of dollars flowing annually to influencers at a scale no startup is close to matching. Meta and Google have the vast resources to launch and test features quickly. And yet, a new crop of startups is fighting to develop products that break through the noise and help creators build their businesses.

Wall of Love

Featuring tweets from Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt; and Aaron Epstein, Y Combinator partner. Plus clips from Airchat featuring Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi.

Ryan Hoover

@rrhoover

@markrachapoom saw your Journal-to-Comic project on Airchat. Impressive. :)

9:03 AM · May 6, 2023

Aaron Epstein

@aaron_epstein

Excited for Merse to launch: Netflix for audio-visual comics, where you can hear character voices and sounds. @markrachapoom and @kumareth have made modern comics for the digital age, and it's super cool: merse.co

3:01 PM · Jul 10, 2024

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