About
Adam Dorfman is co-founder and CEO of Tower, an AI platform for legal due diligence. He previously worked as an early engineer at Float, a Canadian corporate card company, and at Apple on software for audio hardware manufacturing and AI-powered computer vision research through DarwinAI. He studied mathematical physics at the University of Waterloo and completed internships in data science, machine learning, and software engineering.
Founder at TowerYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Adam went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Tower's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Adam can intro founders to Tower's investors below.
Tower's investors Β· 5
Co-founders at Tower
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Andy ZhangCo-Founder
Experience
- Tower (YC W24)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 β present
- FloatSoftware Developer2022 β 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- FloatSoftware Developer2022Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- AppleManufacturing Quality Engineer2021
- DarwinAIDeep Learning Developer2020Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- BMO Capital MarketsQuantitative Analyst - Data Science & Machine Learning2020Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Waterloo Formula ElectricVehicle Harness Subteam Lead, Powertrain Engineer2018 β 2019Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- GeneYouIn Inc.QA Automation Engineer2018Toronto, Ontario
Skills & more
Deep Learning1Data Science1Artificial Intelligence (AI)1Software Development5Programming4Scikit-LearnSelenium WebDriverTensorFlowPython (Programming Language)3KerasCStatsmodels
+10 more
JavaXGBoostSQLJavaScriptGitHTMLpytestCSSFlaskTeam ManagementLanguages English Β· French Β· Russian
- DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer Specialization β Coursera
- Sequences, Time Series and Prediction β Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow β Coursera
- Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning β Coursera
- Deep Learning Specialization β Coursera
- Sequence Models β Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks β Coursera
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects β Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization β Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning β Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Adam Dorfman?
- Adam Dorfman is co-founder and CEO of Tower, an AI platform for legal due diligence. He previously worked as an early engineer at Float, a Canadian corporate card company, and at Apple on software for audio hardware manufacturing and AI-powered computer vision research through DarwinAI. He studied mathematical physics at the University of Waterloo and completed internships in data science, machine learning, and software engineering.
- Where does Adam Dorfman work?
- Adam Dorfman is Founder of Tower.
- What companies did Adam Dorfman found?
- Adam Dorfman founded Tower.
- Where did Adam Dorfman go to school?
- Adam Dorfman studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Mathematical Physics); Y Combinator.
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