TryNearby
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About TryNearby
YC company profile
Local creators for local businesses
TryNearby connects local businesses with creators who live nearby. Restaurants subscribe monthly and automatically get booked visits from local creators who film, edit, and post a review to the local algorithm. This creates a steady stream of content that compounds into discovery on TikTok, Instagram, and increasingly AI search. Over 100 restaurants and thousands of creators are on the platform across Southern California, with AI agents handling matching, booking, and every creator conversation.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2025
- Team size: 5
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Restaurant Tech, Marketing, Creator Economy, SMB
- YC partner: Brad Flora
Founders
Yousef Abdelfattah — Founder/CEO
Co-founded FaZe Clan after starting as a 14 year old YouTuber in 2010. Spent the last 15 years in the creator economy turning FaZe into the first internet-native content company to IPO at $1B. Now building TryNearby; for local creators and businesses.
Obaida Albaroudi — Founder/COO
Co-Founder at TryNearby. Early Replit employee and former Goldman Sachs. Cofounder of Clipping Exe, one of the first and largest video clipping infrastructures, processing tens of thousands of videos per month.
Ahmad Ibrahim — Founder/CTO
Founder at TryNearby. Previously CTO/Cofounder at Clipping Exe, building video clipping infrastructure that scaled to tens of thousands of videos monthly.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.