Ash Rust

Managing Partner

2017 - Current

Pre-Seed B2B Venture Fund Focused on Founder Coaching.

Mentor

2014 - 2023

Mentor

2017 - 2021

Mentor

2017 - 2021

Advisor

2016 - 2019

EIR

2016 - 2017

Cofounder & CEO

2011 - 2016

Acquired by Cameo. YC W12. Business Messaging Solutions. Venture backed business messaging startup. The business grew to multi-million dollar revenue with customers such as: Lyft, Wag, Berkshire Hathaway, Booz Allen Hamilton, Yale and Teach for America; before being acquired by Cameo Global in 2015.

Product, Director of Ranking

2010 - 2011

Led development of Scoring, Influence Graph and Topics. Scaled scoring and graph algorithms from a few million scores to hundreds of millions.

Lead Relevance Engineer

2009 - 2010

Led relevance team. Projects: crowdsourced data collection, ML based relevance training & A/B testing.

Engineer

2008 - 2009

Linguistic engineering: efficient solutions for language problems, query meaning and data extraction from free text.