Yan-david Erlich
General Partner at B Capital
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYan-David Erlich (Yanda) is a technology investor and operator who blends hands-on founder experience with strategic venture leadership. As a General Partner at B Capital, he backs seed-to-pre-IPO AI and technology companies, drawing on a track record that spans four venture-backed ventures and multiple exits. He previously led global GTM as COO/CRO of Weights & Biases, building and aligning sales, customer success, partnerships, strategy, and data science while representing Coatue in the Series A. A 4x founder/CEO, his ventures—Parsable (acquired by CAI), ChoiceVendor (acquired by LinkedIn), Mogad (acquired by iSkoot/Qualcomm), and Happiness Engines—reflect his ability to ship products from concept to market. He began his career at Google and Microsoft and holds a Rice University BS in CS/ECE and an MBA from Stanford, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep technical chops with entrepreneur-friendly insight to accelerate AI-first ventures.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessB.S., Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rice University
English, French, German
Github Skills (6)
windows6
linux6
raycast5
custom-keyboard1
ios1
keyboard1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yanda/Shadow
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
A simple object for adding/removing shadows from your CALayers or UIViews.
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
shadowsswiftios
yanda/KeyboardLayoutEngine
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
⌨️ Simplest custom keyboard generator for iOS ever!
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
simplesteverkeyboard-generatorkeyboardios
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