# Scott Nguyen (slim)

> Scott Nguyen is co-founder (historical). Helicone AI Gateway + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder (historical).

Scott Nguyen co-founded Helicone, an LLM observability platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/snguy/
- X: https://x.com/NguyenScott7

## What Scott builds

- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/helicone.md), graded D, 47/100, in Agent observability & evals. Open-source LLM observability that logs requests through an OpenAI-compatible gateway (100+ models, fallbacks, caching, rate limits) or async logging. Co-founder (historical), researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Barak Oshri](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/barak-oshri/), Co-founder (historical)
- [Justin Torre](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/justin-torre/), Co-founder (historical)

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)

## Questions

### Who is Scott Nguyen?

Scott Nguyen co-founded Helicone, an LLM observability platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch.

### What does Helicone (Mintlify) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Helicone AI Gateway + MCP from Helicone (Mintlify).

### Who has invested in Helicone (Mintlify)?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator.

### How are Scott's tools graded?

Helicone AI Gateway + MCP is graded D, 47 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/helicone
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1178880-justin-torre
- https://www.helicone.ai
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/justintorre/
- https://x.com/justinstorre
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1203799-barak-oshri
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/boshri/
- https://x.com/barakoshri
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1180638-scott-nguyen
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/snguy/
- https://x.com/NguyenScott7
- https://www.helicone.ai/
- https://docs.helicone.ai/
- https://www.helicone.ai/contact

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.