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Matthew Tang

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO at Sublingual

New York, New York, United States

FoundedSublingual · YC

About

Matthew Tang is co-founder and CEO of Sublingual, which builds a desktop application for tracking team productivity and maintaining focus on product development. He has background in recommendation systems, computer vision, and deep learning theory.

Co-Founder and CEO at SublingualYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Matthew 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 Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Sublingual's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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

Sublingual's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Sublingual

DBDylan Bowman
Dylan BowmanFounder

Experience

  1. DecagonMember of Technical Staffcurrent2025 — present
  2. Sublingual AI (YC W25)CEO and Co-Founder2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. TikTokMachine Learning Engineer2024 — 2025San Jose, California, United States
  4. NextdoorMachine Learning Engineer Intern2023San Francisco, California, United States
  5. Revery AI (YC S21)Research Intern2022 — 2023
  6. TikTokSDE Intern2022Mountain View, California, United States
  7. Illinois RocstarBackend Developer Intern2021
  8. University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPrairieLearn Developer2021

Frequently asked questions

Who is Matthew Tang?
Matthew Tang is co-founder and CEO of Sublingual, which builds a desktop application for tracking team productivity and maintaining focus on product development. He has background in recommendation systems, computer vision, and deep learning theory.
Where does Matthew Tang work?
Matthew Tang is Co-Founder and CEO of Sublingual.
What companies did Matthew Tang found?
Matthew Tang founded Sublingual.
Where did Matthew Tang go to school?
Matthew Tang studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Masters of Computer Science); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); University of Illinois Laboratory High School (High School Diploma).

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