Yan-david Erlich
AI investor. Former exec, repeat founder.
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
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
Weights & Biases is a developer-first MLOps platform that builds machine learning performance visualization tools.
Raised $250,000,000.00 from IPOSharks.
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
Outlier Ventures invest in the early stage ventures of exceptionally driven entrepreneurs who are building transformative companies.
Founder & CEO
2013 - 2017
Founded Parsable in 2013. The industrial Connected Worker platform to execute & measure work. CEO until 2017.
Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Raised $132,874,243.00 from Downing Ventures, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, B37 Ventures, Future Fund, Activate Capital Partners, Cisco Investments, Evolv Ventures, Honeywell, Princeville Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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
Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm.
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)
Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.
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