Nate Yu
CEO and Founder
at Butter
Nate Yu is the CEO and founder of Butter – an AI-native creative platform used by thousands of brands and agencies to make better content faster.
He was on the early team at Grubwithus (YC W12), which pivoted into GOAT and led growth teams at venture-backed startups Shyp and Athos. Nate invests and advises companies on growth and product including Headspace, Mozilla, Harry’s, Blockfolio, and WeWork.
His areas of focus are building product led growth loops, improving user retention, finding emerging acquisition channels, and scaling creative testing using AI.
Content & Articles by Nate Yu
Setting Up A Founder-Led Organic LinkedIn Content Machine With Claude
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Jonathan Martinez, founder and CEO of GrowthPair, to share how founder-led LinkedIn content took his startup from zero to $1M in annual...
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos, to share...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...
The 10 Security Gaps That Plague Startups Before Their A Round
A NOTE ON SEVERITY Not every item on this list carries the same level of risk. Some are the kind of finding that stops a deal. Others are serious but...