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About
Zack Swafford is a cofounder at Dart. He previously studied at Stanford and worked at Plenty as an early engineer, where he built full-stack applications, data pipelines, and machine learning systems, eventually managing a team of engineering and product staff.
Founder at DartYC W22
Intro paths
Zack went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Dart's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Zack can intro founders to Dart's investors below.
Dart's investors · 6
Co-founders at Dart

Experience
- DartCofoundercurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Plenty®Sofware Engineering Manager2018 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Plenty®Senior Software Engineer2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- Self-EmployedAI/ML/CV Consultant and Contractor2017 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- Stanford University Computer Science DepartmentTeaching Assistant2015 — 2016Stanford University
- See Jane FarmSoftware Engineering Intern2016San Francisco Bay Area
- AtchCofounder and President2015 — 2016Stanford University
- Academic Computing Services of StanfordTechnical Operations Specialist2013 — 2015Stanford University
- Perceptive SoftwareSoftware Engineering Intern2014Shawnee, KS
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Zack Swafford?
- Zack Swafford is a cofounder at Dart. He previously studied at Stanford and worked at Plenty as an early engineer, where he built full-stack applications, data pipelines, and machine learning systems, eventually managing a team of engineering and product staff.
- Where does Zack Swafford work?
- Zack Swafford is Founder of Dart.
- What companies did Zack Swafford found?
- Zack Swafford founded Dart.
- Where did Zack Swafford go to school?
- Zack Swafford studied at Stanford University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); Stanford University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Lewis & Clark College (Templeton Scholars Program).
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Plenty mafia5
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