Kevin Hale is an advisor at Short Story, Instrumentl, PartnerStack, Chaldal, Convictional, Tara AI, Canix, Pawprint, Obie and Squire Technologies. He is an angel investor. Has worked as a partner at Y Combinator. He works with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the very first startups funded by Y Combinator. SurveyMonkey later acquired this online form builder. Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded more than 800 startups and brought together more than 1,600 founders. Their companies have a combined value of more than $30 billion. Successful investments include Dropbox, Stripe, 9GAG, Code Academy, AIRBNB, Reddit and Homejoy. He is an advisor at AptDeco.