About
Nam Nguyen was a founding engineer at Starlight, a fintech company within South Park Commons, and previously worked as an ML engineer at Microsoft. He currently leads Cohesive, focusing on AI solutions for blue-collar entrepreneurs.
Founder at CohesiveYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Nam went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Cohesive's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Nam can intro founders to Cohesive's investors below.
Cohesive's investors · 2
Co-founders at Cohesive
KZ
Kevin ZhangFounder
Experience
- Cohesive AI (YC X25)Cofoundercurrent2025 — presentNew York, United States
- Stealth StartupCo-Founder2023 — 2024New York, United States
- StarlightFounding Engineer2022 — 2023New York City Metropolitan Area
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer (NLP)2019 — 2022Greater Seattle Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineering (Google Hotels)2018Cambridge, MA
- Hutchin Hill CapitalQuantitative Analyst2017Greater Boston Area
Skills & more
Kubernetes5Computer VisionTypeScriptCompilersDebuggersNatural Language Processing (NLP)Deep LearningSoftware Development1Research3Programming2Web Development5Data Analysis1
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Project ManagementTeachingVue.jsDockerBlockchainWeb3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Next.jsPostgreSQLRustC#Rust (Programming Language)From Nam's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nam Nguyen?
- Nam Nguyen was a founding engineer at Starlight, a fintech company within South Park Commons, and previously worked as an ML engineer at Microsoft. He currently leads Cohesive, focusing on AI solutions for blue-collar entrepreneurs.
- Where does Nam Nguyen work?
- Nam Nguyen is Founder of Cohesive.
- What companies did Nam Nguyen found?
- Nam Nguyen founded Cohesive.
- Where did Nam Nguyen go to school?
- Nam Nguyen studied at Y Combinator (X25); Williams College (Bachelor's Degree with Honors; Phi Beta Kappa, Mathematics & Computer Science); University of Oxford (Visiting Student, Mathematics and Computer Science).
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