PAUL HONTZ

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Founder YCOMBINATOR ALUMNI S17

About

Hello, my name is Paul Hontz. I've started, scaled, and sold a few companies.

I'm now building Forge ISR — persistent spatial AI for defense operations. We work with defense and intelligence organizations on mission-critical sensor and detection systems.

About Me

█ Revenue Generated

├─ 0→1 Proven at pre-product market fit sales
├─ Scale 10% WoW MRR growth
├─ $85 Million Directly Attributed Revenue
└─

▲ Background

├─ 3 startup exits
├─ 15+ years active
└─ Next: AI vision + defense + private compute

◉ Skills

└─ AI Defense Tech Growth Product Strategy

Forge ISR

A unified sensor-to-decision platform for defense operations.

⚡ Problems We're Solving

├─ Fragmented sensors feeds from different sensor types live in silos, no unified pipeline
├─ Detection can't keep pace manual triage breaks down at multi-sensor, wide-area scale
├─ Evidence gaps tracking and recording aren't tied together for after-action review
└─ Rigid deployment most systems can't run the same stack at the edge and in the data center

Previous Projects

▸ Post Sunday [PENDING]

AI-powered video editor for churches · 10% WoW MRR growth

▸ MORE [SOLD]

Algorithm-driven sports card arbitrage · $1M+ sales volume

▸ Kidmin App [SOLD]

Children's check-in system · Y Combinator S17

▸ The Startup Foundry [ARCHIVED]

My hack to get plugged into Silicon Valley · 1.2M page views in 2011

▸ Growth Consulting [ARCHIVED]

Generated over $70M in directly attributed revenue

Connect

[E] Email [email protected]

[L] LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/paulhontz

[X] X x.com/startupfoundry