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Thomson Nguyen

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Saga

San Francisco Bay Area

Skills

Machine Learning
Data Mining
Python
R
Data Analysis
Data Science
Whisky
Gin
Ruby
Data Visualization
SQL
Hadoop
High Performance Computing
C++
Artificial Intelligence
C
Distributed Systems
Git
Analysis
Python (Programming Language)

Work Experience

2024

  • Co-Founder, Managing Partner

    2024

    Saga is a $125M Venture fund led by Max Altman, Ben Braverman, and Thomson Nguyen. We invest $2-4M in pre-seed and seed stage companies.

  • Visiting Scholar

    2011

    Member of Bud Mishra's Bioinformatics laboratory at the Courant Institute on machine learning, generative AI, and cybersecurity.

2019 - 2022

  • Founder & CEO

    2019 - 2022

    Financial Services for SMBs. Raised from Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital, and Valar Ventures. Acquired by Plastiq in 2022 for $130M. (https://city-cap.com/nearside-acquired-plastiq-130-million/)

2018 - 2019

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2018 - 2019

    Interviewed small business owners, listened to founders, wrote some code.

2016 - 2018

  • Head of Capital Data Science

    2016 - 2018

    Headed up the Data Science/ML team at Square Capital where we focused on the following three things: 1) Default, Underwriting, and Macroeconomic Risk, 2) Business, Operations, and Marketing Optimization, and 3) Moonshot Research and Product Development.

  • Founder/CEO

    2013 - 2016

    Predicted churn for enterprises. Raised from GV, Initialized Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Y Combinator (W14), Sumon Sadhu, and Kevin Mahaffey. Acquired by Square ($SQ) in 2016.

2012 - 2013

  • Lead Data Scientist

    2012 - 2013

    Was the first data scientist at Causes and led a team to build user segmentation models, data ETL, internal reporting and dashboards, and LTV forecasting. Acquired by Brigade in 2014.

2011 - 2012

  • Data Scientist

    2011 - 2012

    Was the first data scientist and worked on LTV forecasting, channel attribution, and malware detection models.