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Co-founder · Nyne.aiBetter decisions start with better human context.Nyne is the people data layer for models, risk, fraud, KYC, sales, and every system that needs to understand a person.
Co-founder · Nyne.ai · San Francisco
Building infrastructure
for better decisions
about people.
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HF0 W26
Current founder cohort while building Nyne in San Francisco. HF0
South Park Commons
Fall ’25 Founder Fellowship; SPC invested $1M in Nyne. Nyne at SPC
UC Berkeley
Studied Computer Science and Data Science at Cal. Berkeley
Speed Suspects
Started building at 15 and eventually served as CTO of an automotive media company. Instagram
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About
I’ve always learned by building.
My educational path wasn’t linear. I left high school at 15 to help build Speed Suspects, an automotive media company. As CTO, I built automation and growth systems behind a community that reached nearly two million people.
Later, I made my way to UC Berkeley to study Computer Science and Data Science. At CareRev, I went from ML intern to engineer, building production systems for healthcare staffing. In 2024, I co-founded Nyne.ai.
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Nyne’s north star
The people data company
Build the best infrastructure for decisions about people.
Every important system eventually makes a decision about a human: who to trust, serve, protect, investigate, hire, or sell to. Most of those decisions still begin with fragmented, stale, or anonymous data.
Nyne turns public signals into structured, verified human context. The ambition is bigger than enrichment: give every model and application the understanding it needs to make the right decision about the person in front of it.
Model intelligence
Give models and agents structured context about the people they serve.
Risk & fraud
Understand the human behind an account and surface signals that change the risk decision.
Identity & KYC
Resolve fragmented profiles and records into a verified, auditable identity.
Sales & GTM
Find and prioritize the right customers, decision-makers, and markets.
Search & discovery
Turn a plain-English description into the right real people.
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The path
Building Nyne alongside HF0’s current founder cohort in San Francisco.
Selected for the Fall ’25 cohort, with a $1M investment into Nyne.
One of eight founders selected for the six-month Berkeley founder program.
Building the people data infrastructure behind better decisions about humans.
Started as an intern, then built production ML systems for healthcare staffing.
Studied computer science and data science after taking a nontraditional route to college.
Helped build an automotive media company, creating automation and growth systems for an audience of nearly two million.
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Beyond work
The person behind the founder
Discipline carries across everything.
Building a company is one expression of it. Training is another. Outside Nyne, I spend my time bodybuilding, staying close to car culture, watching the Lakers, and following UFC.
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Follow on X Selected ideas
Building with urgency
Obsessed with hard engineering problems?
Nyne is hiring exceptional engineers in San Francisco. I’m also always glad to meet ambitious founders and people who move fast with conviction.
michael@nyne.ai