Colin Flaherty
Angel Investor at *
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Flaherty is an AI-focused technologist and angel investor with eight years of experience blending machine learning research, product engineering, and early-stage venture activity. A University of Chicago double major in computer science (machine learning) and mathematics, he contributed to high-impact research at Meta including the Science paper on Diplomacy AI and a NeurIPS paper on multiscale transformers. As a founding research scientist at Augment he helped build a top-ranked open-source coding agent framework and spoke to large audiences about coding agents, and he now sources and advises AI-first startups across seed to Series A rounds. Colin bridges deep technical fluency with commercial judgment—often spotting teams building infrastructure for AI agents and chatbots—and has co-invested alongside top-tier firms like Benchmark, a16z, Sequoia, and Lux. Based in New York, he combines research pedigree with hands-on product experience and a knack for translating novel ML ideas into investable companies.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Online High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Double major in mathematics and computer science with honors, Bachelor of Science - BS Double major in mathematics and computer science with honors at University of ChicagoFirst graduating class (with all the chaos you would expect of that), First graduating class (with all the chaos you would expect of that) at The Nueva School
汉语 （mandarin chinese）, English
Stackoverflow
796reputation
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Github Skills (27)
datasets10
negotiation10
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
nlp9
agent8
benchmark8
ai-agent8
vue-cli6
fetch-api6
alphabet6
nodejs6
vue6
json6
git6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Code for Cicero, an AI agent that plays the game of Diplomacy with open-domain natural language negotiation.
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
nlpdiplomacyagentopen-domainai-agent
c-flaherty/ParlAI
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
A framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialogue datasets.
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
nlpfairness-mldeep-learningdatasetmachine-learning
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