Executive Officer, Director at cosmon

Where does Rui Aguiar work?

Rui Aguiar is Founder of cosmon.

Where did Rui Aguiar go to school?

Rui Aguiar studied at Stanford University (Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence); Stanford University (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science - AI and Systems).

Rui Aguiar

Founder

Founder at cosmon

Palo Alto, California, United States

Foundedcosmon

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cosmon's investors · 3

Bison VenturesSeattle · since 2026 Innovation EndeavorsPalo Alto · $1M – $15M checks · since 2026 South Park CommonsSan Francisco · $1M – $10M checks · since 2026

Experience

CosmonFounder, CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
various startupsinvestor/advisor2019 — 2025
South Park CommonsMember2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
ExpedockCofounder/CTO2020 — 2024
Stanford UniversityResearcher- Stanford Machine Learning Group2019
Rockset (acquired by OpenAI)Software Engineering2019San Mateo, CA
StripeSoftware Engineer Intern2018San Francisco Bay Area
AirbnbSoftware Engineering Intern2018San Francisco Bay Area
Stanford Data Impact LabProject Member2017 — 2018Stanford Univeristy
FacebookData Science and Engineering Intern2017Menlo Park, CA
StartXBusiness Development Intern2016Palo Alto, CA
Casdin CapitalResearch Associate2015
Healthcare JournalIntern and Editor2013 — 2015
Thomas, McNerney & PartnersResearch Assistant2013Stamford, CA

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SolidWorksEngineering ManagementStrategic PlanningMachine LearningMicrosoft ExcelCustomer ServiceMicrosoft WordResearchMicrosoft OfficePowerPointJavaC++

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Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera

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Who is Rui Aguiar?: Executive Officer, Director at cosmon
Where does Rui Aguiar work?: Rui Aguiar is Founder of cosmon.
What companies did Rui Aguiar found?: Rui Aguiar founded cosmon.
Where did Rui Aguiar go to school?: Rui Aguiar studied at Stanford University (Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence); Stanford University (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science - AI and Systems).

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