About
Cole Gawin attended USC and is building intelligent systems technology at Lemma, a startup in the Y Combinator F25 batch.
Founder at LemmaYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Cole went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Lemma's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Cole can intro founders to Lemma's investors below.
Lemma's investors · 5
Co-founders at Lemma
JZ
Jerry ZhangFounder
Experience
- Lemma (YC F25)Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- NeoScholar Finalistcurrent2024 — present
- LavaLabPresident2025Los Angeles, California, United States
- LavaLabDirector of Development2024 — 2025Los Angeles, California, United States
- LavaLabCohort Member2024Los Angeles, California, United States
- TandemSoftware Engineer Intern2025New York City Metropolitan Area
- USC Information Sciences InstituteUndergraduate Student Researcher2024 — 2025Marina del Rey, California, United States
- Code The ChangeTechnical Lead2024 — 2025
- 180 Degrees Consulting at USCConsultant2024Los Angeles, California, United States
- Nora MusicHead of Product & Engineering2024Los Angeles, California, United States
- Class CompanionMachine Learning Engineer2023
- FiveableSoftware Engineer I2022 — 2023
- FiveableJr. Software Engineer2021 — 2022
- LogRocketTechnical Writer2021 — 2023
- RemNoteTechnical PM Intern2022
- ExpoDeveloper Relations Intern2022
- Better ProgrammingFreelance Technical Writer2019 — 2021
- CodeWarriorsApp Revamp Lead2020 — 2021
Skills & more
User Experience (UX)2Data Science2DevOps2EntrepreneurshipTechnology LeadershipProduct OperationsData Analysis1Social ImpactWeb Development1Product Engineering1Large Language Models (LLM)1Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Machine LearningFull-Stack DevelopmentProject ManagementWeb ScrapingCognitive ScienceSoftware DevelopmentUser Interface DesignTechnical WritingAnalytical SkillsLeadershipProblem SolvingFigma (Software)- Startup Bootcamp — NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute
- Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Cole Gawin?
- Cole Gawin attended USC and is building intelligent systems technology at Lemma, a startup in the Y Combinator F25 batch.
- Where does Cole Gawin work?
- Cole Gawin is Founder of Lemma.
- What companies did Cole Gawin found?
- Cole Gawin founded Lemma.
- Where did Cole Gawin go to school?
- Cole Gawin studied at University of Southern California (Bachelor's degree, Cognitive Science; Minors in Computer Science & Philosophy); Y Combinator; Deerfield High School.
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