Mark Rachapoom
- Co-Founder & CEO of Merse (YC S24)
- O-1 Visa holder
- 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 $5K by David Senra of Founders Podcast to go to 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
With my lifetime co-founder, Kumar
Y Combinator
Y Combinator
Eric Jorgenson, the author of 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant'Projects
The New Medium: Visual Stories with Audio Effects and Sounds.
Appeared On
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21-Year-Old Mark Rachapoom: Co-Founder of YC-Backed Merse, Revolutionizing a $300B Industry
In the competitive $300 billion digital content creation market, Merse (YC S24) is emerging as a standout. Led by 21-year-old Mark Rachapoom, Merse has secured backing from Y Combinator, a startup accelerator with a track record of producing 125 companies valued at over $150 million each.
Meet Mark Rachapoom: The 21-Year-Old Founder of Merse, Y Combinator-Backed Digital Storytelling Startup
Mark Rachapoom, the 21-year-old CEO and Co-Founder of Merse (YC S24), is making significant strides in the field of digital content creation. His company, Merse, recently secured backing from Y Combinator, placing it among a select group of startups poised to impact the global tech landscape.
Wall of Love
Tweet from Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt; and Airchat from Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi; and Aaron Epstein, Y Combinator partner.
@markrachapoom saw your Journal-to-Comic project on Airchat. Impressive. :)
9:03 AM · May 6, 2023
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