Simon Kubica

Australian software entrepreneur

Co-founder and CEO of the Index app
Building modern product planning software with Christian Iacullo
Y Combinator alumni (W23 with Index)
Previously Product Manager at Atlassian (worked on Jira, Forge, + new products and platforms)
simon@index.inc

Bio

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Simon Kubica is an Australian entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Index, one of the few Australian companies ever accepted into Y Combinator. He has featured in Forbes and Business Insider, and was previously a product leader at Atlassian, working on Jira, Forge, and new products and platforms.

Talks

Introducing Index with Simon Kubica: Planning and Discovery for Linear Product Management
Atlassian Summit (Vegas) by Simon Kubica, Resolve Incidents Faster: Transforming Your Incident Management Process
Atlassian Summit (Remote) with Michael Ventnor, Make DevOps delightful with Forge
Atlassian Atlas Camp (Vienna) with Michael Oates, Forge UI: A New Way to Customize the Atlassian User Experience

Press

Interview with Forbes: Index lands $3.5m seed round from Blackbird and Bain
Interview with Business Insider: Bain Capital Ventures-backed startup Index raises to build product management tools
Index covered in Startup Daily: Canva and Atlassian alumni raise for their product management startup
Insight by Bain Capital Ventures: Index brings product planning into the AI age
Investment Notes by Blackbird: Why they backed Index

Interests

Health and longevity: currently following Blueprint protocol and researching endocrine disruption
Product, engineering, and design on the web; specific interest in building systems of record and UI animation
Typeracer, currently top 0.1% in world
Chess (learning)

Media

Simon Kubica introducing Index, the planning and discovery tool for Linear Product Management — Introducing Index to the world in 2024

Simon Kubica, Atlassian Product Manager, speaking at Atlassian Summit 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada — Presenting at Atlassian Summit for the first time in 2019

Dalton Caldwell with Simon Kubica at the YC batch retreat — Y Combinator W23 batch retreat with Dalton

Blackbird-backed Aussie YC founders Christian Iacullo and Simon Kubica in front of the famous Y Combinator sign in Mountain View, Silicon Valley — YC sign photo in Mountain View in Christian

Fireside Q&A in Sydney Australia for Y Combinator applications — Fireside Q&A in Sydney for YC applicants

Cover photo of Simon Kubica, CEO and co-founder of Index, presenting for a Y Combinator applications event in Sydney — YC tips event in Sydney

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