Yazan El-baba
Principal at Emergence Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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
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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.