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Samuel Oluwalana

InvestorFounder

Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA · Founder at HyperGlue

Denver, Colorado, United States

FoundedHyperGlue · YC

About

Samuel Oluwalana graduated from Stanford in 2012 and has worked in tech for over a decade. He is building HyperGlue to apply machine learning to extract insights from text data for business intelligence.

Founder at HyperGlueYC W21

Intro paths

YC

Samuel went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Samuel can intro founders to HyperGlue's investors below.

HyperGlue's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021

Co-founders at HyperGlue

SFStanley Fich
Stanley FichFounder

Experience

  1. NVIDIASenior Software Engineercurrent2024 — presentBoulder, Colorado, United States
  2. Hyperglue (YC S21)Co-Founder2020 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  3. Primer AIStaff Software Engineer2019 — 2020San Francisco, California
  4. Primer AISenior backend engineer2018 — 2019San Francisco, California
  5. TrustPathPrincipal Software & Data Engineer2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  6. Club HealthCTO2016 — 2017
  7. EndgameSenior Software Engineer2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  8. VadioCo+Founder + Engineer2011 — 2015Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area
  9. Durocast LLCProject Engineer2010 — 2012
  10. Expandah IncChief Technology Officer2011 — 2012
  11. DisrptLead Engineer2011
  12. F4EDTeam Lead2008 — 2010
  13. SubwayAssistant Manager2006 — 2008

Skills & more

Enterprise SoftwareHTMLJava1C++1JavaScript1CSSWindowsPHP1Microsoft Office2SQL1LinuxMySQL2
+12 moreOS XPythonrubyObjective-CLaTeXjQueryRCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Start-up LeadershipFundraisingComputer ScienceWeb Development
  • Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera

From Samuel's professional profile.

Colleagues at NVIDIA

Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science at Propagator Ventures
Brooke Seawell
Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Can Celik
Founder at herdr
Dr. Marco Pavone
Investor at AV8 Ventures
Erikan Obotetukudo
Founder and Managing Partner at Audacity Global
Garnet Heraman
Founder and Managing Partner at Aperture Venture Capital
Jonathan Ross
Founder of Groq; inventor of Google's TPU — now at Nvidia
Jure Leskovec
Advisory Board at Silicon Gardens

Frequently asked questions

Who is Samuel Oluwalana?
Samuel Oluwalana graduated from Stanford in 2012 and has worked in tech for over a decade. He is building HyperGlue to apply machine learning to extract insights from text data for business intelligence.
Where does Samuel Oluwalana work?
Samuel Oluwalana is Founder of HyperGlue and Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA.
What companies did Samuel Oluwalana found?
Samuel Oluwalana founded HyperGlue.
Where did Samuel Oluwalana go to school?
Samuel Oluwalana studied at Stanford University (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Systems).

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