Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich is a General Partner at B Capital where he invests in technology and AI startups from seed to pre-IPO, with a focus on AI, technology, and enterprise software across the United States and the broader Americas. He has served as a board director at Weights & Biases (former) and has invested in companies including Weights & Biases, Thumbtack, MasterClass, Forethought, and Braintrust. Before B Capital, he was a General Partner at Coatue Management; COO & CRO at Weights & Biases; Founding Managing Partner at Outlier Ventures; and founder & CEO of Parsable, ChoiceVendor, and Happiness Engines. He also held Entrepreneur in Residence roles at Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Battery Ventures, and earlier worked in software/product roles at Google and Microsoft. Yan-David holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University, and he lives in San Francisco.
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