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Nicolas Dessaigne

Group Partner at Y Combinator

San Francisco, California

Investor
VC
Angel

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $150,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $150,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $150,000.00

Skills

Algolia
Entrepreneurship
Search
SaaS
Text Mining
Product Management
Big Data
Software Design
Information Retrieval
Java
Enterprise Search
Strategic Thinking
Mobile Applications
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Web
Lean Startup
Lucene
Solr
Software Development
Software Engineering

Education

Investments

Greenboard

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Ecliptor

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $500K

Pythagora

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $4.5M

Exploding Gradients

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $500K

Nuanced

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $500K

MathGPTPro

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $500K

OneGrep

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $500K

Guide Labs

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $500K

Topo.io

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $500K

Apriora

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $3.5M

Work Experience

Y Combinator

2020

  • Group Partner

    2021

  • Visiting Partner

    2020 - 2021

Algolia

2012

  • Co-Founder & Board of Directors

    2020

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2012 - 2020

Artifakt

2020 - 2023

  • Independent Board Member

    2020 - 2023

Exalead

2010 - 2012

  • VP R&D

    2011 - 2012

  • Director, Product Management

    2010 - 2011

Arisem - Thales

2001 - 2010

  • CTO

    2007 - 2010

  • Chief Research and Development Officer

    2006 - 2007

  • R&D Software Developer

    2001 - 2006

National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo)

1999 - 2000

  • Visiting Researcher

    1999 - 2000