Thomson Nguyen
Managing Partner at Saga
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
2024 - Current
Saga is a $125M Venture fund led by Max Altman, Ben Braverman, and Thomson Nguyen. We invest $2-4M in pre-seed and seed stage companies.
Saga Ventures Management is a VC firm that invest in ambitious founders building technology to solve the world's hardest problems.
Visiting Scholar
2011
Member of Bud Mishra's Bioinformatics laboratory at the Courant Institute on machine learning, generative AI, and cybersecurity.
Founder & CEO
2019 - 2022
Financial Services for SMBs. Raised from Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital, and Valar Ventures. Acquired by Plastiq in 2022 for $130M. (https://city-cap.com/nearside-acquired-plastiq-130-million/)
Nearside provides financial and software services for SMBs.
Raised $73,000,000.00 from Kevin Hartz, Ryan Petersen, Valar Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Michael Ovitz, Jim Breyer and Foundation Capital.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2018 - 2019
Interviewed small business owners, listened to founders, wrote some code.
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Head of Capital Data Science
2016 - 2018
Headed up the Data Science/ML team at Square Capital where we focused on the following three things: 1) Default, Underwriting, and Macroeconomic Risk, 2) Business, Operations, and Marketing Optimization, and 3) Moonshot Research and Product Development.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly Square, Inc.) is a technology company with a focus on financial services.
Raised $2,601,166,807.00 from TDM Growth Partners and TDM Growth Partners.
Founder/CEO
2013 - 2016
Predicted churn for enterprises. Raised from GV, Initialized Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Y Combinator (W14), Sumon Sadhu, and Kevin Mahaffey. Acquired by Square ($SQ) in 2016.
Lead Data Scientist
2012 - 2013
Was the first data scientist at Causes and led a team to build user segmentation models, data ETL, internal reporting and dashboards, and LTV forecasting. Acquired by Brigade in 2014.
Data Scientist
2011 - 2012
Was the first data scientist and worked on LTV forecasting, channel attribution, and malware detection models.
Lookout, Inc. is the endpoint to cloud security company purpose-built for the intersection of enterprise and personal data.
Raised $432,339,000.00 from BlackRock.