Taylor Halliday
Co-founder and CEO of Ravenna. Seattle, WA-based engineering leader and entrepreneur. Author of Ravenna’s $15M funding announcement post and the public face of the company’s product/positioning narrative.
Career
| Period | Role | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 – present | Co-founder & CEO | Ravenna |
| Nov 2023 – Jul 2024 | Director of Engineering, AI | Zapier |
| Nov 2021 – Apr 2024 | Director, Product | Zapier |
| Dec 2019 – Feb 2022 | Principal Engineer | Zapier |
| 2016 – 2020 | Co-founder | Mesh Studio (Seattle software consultancy; YC Fellowship 2016) |
| 2013 | Co-founder | Cleargait (iPad gait analysis app) |
| 2013 | Co-founder | Gather (location/time photo sharing) |
| (earlier) | Co-founder | Flixr (creative agency) |
Y Combinator Fellowship
YC Fellowship 2016 cohort with Kevin Coleman for Mesh Studio. The YC Fellowship was a separate program from the full YC batch (defunct as a standalone format). ^[ambiguous — sometimes shorthanded as “YC 2016” in press; the Mesh on YC’s company directory listed today is a different unrelated company]
Ravenna Origin Story
Per Halliday’s blog post and the Madrona podcast:
- Spent 4+ years at Zapier; saw automation demand emerge from business operations and IT teams.
- Conducted 20–30+ customer discovery calls before writing code with Coleman.
- Co-conviction: existing ITSM incumbents are “not making the best use of modern AI technology” and don’t integrate where work happens (Slack).
- Founded Ravenna ~Aug/Sep 2024 (per Madrona podcast: “eight months old” at May 2025 recording).
Quotes
- “Internal Support is long overdue for an upgrade. One that’s fast, human-centric, and powered by AI.” (Apr 2025 LinkedIn)
- “Keep the work in chat, not in a portal. Ravenna lives entirely inside Slack/Teams.” (Sep 2025 LinkedIn)
- “YC taught us focus, humility, and defining your customer.” (Inspired Insider interview)
Public Profile
- Location: Seattle, WA
- LinkedIn: taylor-halliday-7aa59814 (~5K followers)
- Email handle: t***@ravenna.ai
Pre-existing relationships visible on Ravenna’s cap table
- Wade Foster (Zapier CEO) — Halliday’s prior CEO; angel
- Mike Knoop (Zapier Co-founder, Head of AI) — angel
- Bryan Helmig (Zapier CTO/Co-founder) — angel
- Andrew Berman (Zapier Director of AI) — angel/advisor — likely Halliday’s direct successor or peer at Zapier ^[inferred]
This is a 4-Zapier-exec angel concentration — the densest founder-mafia pattern in the cap-table dataset.
Related
- ravenna
- kevin-coleman — co-founder
- zapier — prior employer; design-partner customer
- madrona
- khosla-ventures