Thomson Nguyen
Managing Partner at Saga
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.
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 $130M. (https://city-cap.com/nearside-acquired-plastiq-130-million/)
Entrepreneur in Residence
2018 - 2019
Interviewed small business owners, listened to founders, wrote some code.
Head of Capital Data Science
2016 - 2018
Headed up the Data Science/ML team at Square Capital where we focused on the following three things: 1) Default, Underwriting, and Macroeconomic Risk, 2) Business, Operations, and Marketing Optimization, and 3) Moonshot Research and Product Development.
Founder/CEO
2013 - 2016
Predicted churn for enterprises. Raised from GV, Initialized Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Y Combinator (W14), Sumon Sadhu, and Kevin Mahaffey. Acquired by Square ($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.