Jackson Stokes
FounderFounder at TrainLoop
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedTrainLoop · YC
About
Jackson Stokes is a cofounder at TrainLoop who previously worked on performance optimization for Google's Gemini and AlphaFold projects.
Founder at TrainLoopYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Jackson went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran TrainLoop's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Jackson can intro founders to TrainLoop's investors below.
TrainLoop's investors · 3
Co-founders at TrainLoop
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Mason PierceCofounder / CTO
Experience
- TrainLoopCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & EngineeringResearch Assistant (Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing)2020 — 2022Seattle, Washington, United States
- Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & EngineeringTeaching Assistant (Artificial Intelligence, Probability)2018 — 2022
- GoogleResearch Intern2021
- Allen Institute for AI (AI2)Research Engineering Intern2020
- MicrosoftMachine Learning PM Intern2020
- MicrosoftMachine Learning Engineering Intern: Data and AI Group2019Redmond, Washington
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineering Intern, Azure2018Redmond, Washington
- MicrosoftMachine Learning Engineering Intern, NeXT special projects2017Redmond, WA
Skills & more
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jackson Stokes?
- Jackson Stokes is a cofounder at TrainLoop who previously worked on performance optimization for Google's Gemini and AlphaFold projects.
- Where does Jackson Stokes work?
- Jackson Stokes is Founder of TrainLoop.
- What companies did Jackson Stokes found?
- Jackson Stokes founded TrainLoop.
- Where did Jackson Stokes go to school?
- Jackson Stokes studied at Y Combinator; University of Washington (M.S. Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics).
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