Yan-David Erlich

COO & CRO

2021 - 2024

Angel investor at the Seed round (2018). Led the Series A, representing Coatue, in Jan 2019. Board Director. Joined operationally as Chief Operating Officer in June 2021. Built out the Sales, Customer Success, BD & Partnerships, Strategy, and Data Science teams. Chief Revenue Officer in 2 stints, total of 2 years. Oversaw Sales, Customer Success, Revenue Operations & Strategy globally. Built-out and managed high-performance team. Company hit/beat plan on Gross and Net ARR every quarter I was CRO, 10x-ing ARR during my tenure.

Series A Investor & Board Director

2019 - 2021

General Partner

2018 - 2021

Helped start & led enterprise software investing practice for the Venture Fund (Seed through Series B), including in Enterprise Software, SaaS, and Infrastructure. Led AI investments in Weights & Biases (Series A), Impira (Series B), Infinitus (Series A), Fin (Seed & Series A), Abacus (Series B), Covariant (Series B), and Raycast (Series A).

Founding Managing Partner

2008 - 2018

Solo GP investor focused on AI/ML, developer tools, crypto & blockchain, marketplaces & data transparency. Exits: Mixer Labs (acq Twitter 2009), Buddybuild (acq. Apple 2018), Impira (acq Figma 2023) Current: - AI: Weights & Biases, Forethought, Braintrust, Twin Labs, Haize Labs - Other: Thumbtack, MasterClass

Founder & CEO

2013 - 2017

Founded Parsable in 2013. The industrial Connected Worker platform to execute & measure work. CEO until 2017.

Founder & CEO

2011 - 2013

Happiness Engines was a mobile app experimentation lab Developed and launched the eponymous Happiness Engines robots, an AI assistant service that lives on your mobile device and acts as a good human assistant would, proactively anticipating your needs Founded company & ran it as CEO. Recruited core team comprised of senior engineers from Google, [VMWare, Yahoo, and EA.

Entrepreneur in Residence

2011 - 2011

Entrepreneur In Residence

2011 - 2011

Founder & CEO

2008 - 2010

Service for SMBs focused on vendor selection and management. Founded the company & ran it as CEO. Raised funds from Battery Ventures. Recruited team from Google, Microsoft, several startups. Acquired by LinkedIn in September 2010

Entrepreneur in Residence

2008 - 2008

Incubated and founded ChoiceVendor (see above)

Founder & CEO

2007 - 2008

Developed & launched Social.IM: the first instant messenger service and client for social networks to favorable reviews and consumer adoption Developed and launched Mogad, a social discovery service that enabled consumers to effortlessly discover and share recommendations on content and media with their friends Founded company with Stanford AI and scalable systems expert. Raised initial capital from prominent Silicon Valley angel investors including Peter Thiel Developed business plan and presentation. Co-designed and implemented both Social.IM and Mogad products. Recruited and managed full-time technical team, contract engineers, and UX/UI designers Acquired by iSkoot (part of Qualcomm), in September 2008