Ray Fitzgerald is the Founder and CEO of Bloom, an AI-powered Brand OS that captures a business's visual identity and generates on-brand marketing assets in seconds, backed by Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch.

Ray is a Cork, Ireland native who studied Computer Science at University College Cork, where he was awarded the title of College Scholar, before building his career across multiple AI-driven startups.

Ray is a serial founder obsessed with product and organic growth, with a track record of viral launches, having previously built Lucid, an AI-native word processor that went viral with 3K+ signups and 500K+ views before raising $500K in pre-seed funding.

Prior to founding his own companies, Ray served as one of the founding engineers at Inscribe (YC S18), where he built AI agents to prevent financial fraud and reduced manual review time by 80%.

Bloom launched virally in December 2025, amassing 15K signups and millions of impressions, and has raised approximately $1M in funding backed by Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel) and Nebular VC.