thinkerer labs inc. traces its roots as an independent one-woman consultancy, founded by design technologist
Katherina Nguyen in 2011.
Imagined as a special ops, full-service software design and product strategy studio, the company had a productive initial run, working with over 100+ teams globally in advisory as well as long-term building capacities.
Main areas of support included : venture LP investment pitches, strategic R&D and market analysis, frontier technology use case ideation, UI/UX systems architecture, and in-house team partner collaborations in executing end-to-end software design development for high-priority projects and innovation initiatives.
Industries and projects ranged from e-publishing, consumer health tech, W3 fintech portfolio operations, FAANG-scale internal systems tooling, enterprise VM consoles, datacenter operations, API editor SDKs, AR/VR gaming and utility apps, technical education programs, policy training tools, computer vision analysis, AI scientific development software, voice AI assistants, and interactive museum technologies.
Partners are carefully considered, based on quality of impact and team.
Highlights include:
StartX Stanford Accelerator, DataCollective Venture Capital, Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development, Meta Reality Labs, Citrine Informatics, Codepath.org, Electronic Arts, Belle.ai, Cloudphysics (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), UCSF Cardiology, LA Philharmonic (Silicon Valley Insight), USPS (Peloton Technologies), Santa Clara Data Center, national health R&D agencies, and more.
Other collaborations include cultural arts education NGOs and social impact partners:
Fulbright University Vietnam, Indochina Arts Partnership, Heritage Space, Diaspora Vietnamese Artist Network, and Harvard Art Museum. 
