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Yazan El-baba

Principal at Emergence Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Yazan El-Baba is a Principal at Emergence Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a strong background in financial modeling and direct lending. He has experience in business operations, corporate development, and product strategy at LinkedIn, and has worked as an FP&A Analyst at Microsoft. Yazan has excelled in roles such as Principal at Emergence Capital and in various business operations positions at LinkedIn, showcasing expertise in financial analysis and strategic decision-making in the tech and finance industries.

Work Experience 

  • Principal

    2022 - Current

  • Associate / Sr Associate

    2019 - 2022

    Emergence Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on the business cloud. We have >$2B in AUM, and our investments include Salesforce, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Veeva, Gusto, Box, Textio, and Zoom.

Emergence supported a few carefully selected CEOs who shared our vision that corporate software would migrate to the cloud.

  • Board Observer

    2024

Arcee AI is a pioneer in small language models (SLMs) and provider of an end-to-end Agentic AI solution.

Raised $29,500,000.00 from Scott Banister, Emergence, Centre Street Partners, Arcadia Capital, Flybridge and Journey Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2024

Mechanical Orchard is an AI-native technology company that modernizes critical legacy applications without disrupting what they’re doing.

Raised $81,000,000.00 from Google Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Maze is the continuous product discovery platform for user-centric teams.

Raised $57,472,923.00 from Amplify Partners, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Seedcamp, Justin Bauer, Felicis, Zoom Ventures, Emergence, Partech and Anne Raimondi.

  • Business Operations (Product Strategy)

    2019 - 2019

  • Corporate Development (M&A)

    2018 - 2019

  • Business Operations (GTM Strategy)

    2017 - 2018

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  • Wrestling Broadcaster

    2014 - 2017

    On-air play-by-play and color commentator

Big Ten Network is a company which has developed an app BTN2Go to delivers live and on-demand programming to existing BTN subscribers via

  • FP&A Analyst

    2016 - 2016

    Financial planning & analysis - central finance team

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Real Estate Private Equity Analyst

    2015 - 2015

    Bloomfield Capital is a real estate private equity investment firm that specializes in financing opportunistic situations. We invest in real estate through the origination of high-yield bridge loans and acquisitions of collateralized real estate obligations.

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