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Bennett Cohen

Founder

Founder at Maintouch

New York, New York, United States

FoundedMaintouch · YC

About

Bennett Cohen previously founded Camber and worked on machine learning applications. He holds a degree from UC Berkeley in IEOR and has experience in sports betting and quantitative trading, and is currently focused on organic marketing and growth.

Founder at MaintouchYC S23

Intro paths

YC

Bennett went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Maintouch's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Bennett can intro founders to Maintouch's investors below.

Maintouch's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Experience

  1. MaintouchFoundercurrent2025 — presentNew York, NY
  2. Camber APIFounder/CEO2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  3. BetML FundFounder, ML Engineer2021 — 2023San Francisco, California, United States
  4. University of California, BerkeleyInstructor, Intro to Machine Learning (IEOR 142)2022
  5. UpworkMachine Learning Engineer2022
  6. WayfairData Science - GIE Reduction Team2021Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  7. KyokuOperations Analyst2019Greater Los Angeles Area
  8. Hygee, LLCCo-Founder, Operations + Supply Chain Lead2016 — 2018Greater Los Angeles Area

Skills & more

API Development3PyTorch2Python (Programming Language)2Machine Learning AlgorithmsSupervised LearningMathematical ProgrammingData ModelingMachine LearningDeep LearningMathematical ModelingDeep Reinforcement LearningConvex Optimization
+12 moreUnsupervised LearningCluster AnalysisBack-End Web DevelopmentSQL database designFront-End DevelopmentApplied Machine LearningData AnalysisScikit-LearnPandas (Software)MATLABAdobe Creative SuiteSOLIDWORKS

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Bennett Cohen?
Bennett Cohen previously founded Camber and worked on machine learning applications. He holds a degree from UC Berkeley in IEOR and has experience in sports betting and quantitative trading, and is currently focused on organic marketing and growth.
Where does Bennett Cohen work?
Bennett Cohen is Founder of Maintouch.
What companies did Bennett Cohen found?
Bennett Cohen founded Maintouch.
Where did Bennett Cohen go to school?
Bennett Cohen studied at University of California, Berkeley (Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)); University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research | Data Science Minor); Malibu High School.

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