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Dylan Bowman

Founder

Founder at Sublingual

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedSublingual Β· YC

About

Dylan Bowman worked on large language model research within defense contracting, focusing on deployment safety.

Founder at SublingualYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Dylan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) 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 Sublingual's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β†—

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In turn, Dylan can intro founders to Sublingual's investors below.

Sublingual's investors Β· 1

Co-founders at Sublingual

MTMatthew Tang
Matthew TangCo-Founder and CEO

Experience

  1. Apollo ResearchMember of Technical Staffcurrent2026 β€” present
  2. hud (YC W25)Manager, Evals2026San Francisco, CA
  3. hud (YC W25)Member of Technical Staff2025San Francisco, CA
  4. Sublingual AI (YC W25)Co-Founder2025San Francisco, CA
  5. Assured Information Security (AIS)Research Scientist II2024Rome, New York, United States
  6. Assured Information Security (AIS)Research Scientist I2023 β€” 2024
  7. AmazonSoftware Development Engineer Intern2022Seattle, Washington, United States

Education

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science2020 β€” 2023
  2. University of Illinois Laboratory High School2015 β€” 2020

Skills & more

TableauLaTeXDatabasesSQLPyTorchREST APIsJavaPython (Programming Language)JavaScriptC++Large Language Models (LLM)3Software Testing3
+12 moreObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)ProgrammingMathematicsData StructuresComputer ScienceAlgorithmsStatisticsComputer VisionArtificial Intelligence (AI)Software DevelopmentDeep LearningMachine Learning

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Same school

Shared employers

Also worked at Apollo Research1

Also worked at hud (YC W25)1

Also worked at Sublingual AI (YC W25)1

Also worked at Assured Information Security (AIS)1