Yan-David Erlich

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Bio

Yan-David Erlich is the Founder and CEO of Happiness Engines (a San Francisco based tech startup) and a Founding Partner of MuckerLab (Los Angeles' startup accelerator). Most recently, he was the Founder and CEO of ChoiceVendor, acquired by LinkedIN (LNKD) in 2010. He was also the Founder and CEO of Mogad, acquired by iSkoot (part of Qualcomm: QCOM) in 2008. Yanda has been an Entrepreneur in Residence at Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Battery Ventures. He started out his career with software engineering and product roles at both Google and Microsoft. He is also an active angel investor and advisor in companies including Mixer Labs (acq. Twitter), iSkoot (acq. QCOM), Thumbtack, Loosecubes, Camino Real, BoostCTR and FundMe. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Founded

The future is here to serve you
Founder & CEO
LA's startup accelerator. More »
Co-Founder
LifeCrowd on TechCrunch
The fun new way to share your location by posting a photo. Other apps let you check in to a location and add a photo. With mopho, the photo is the checkin.
Founder
Provides real-world ratings and reviews of business-to-business service providers in more than 70 categories, across the United States.
Founder & CEO
Acquired by LinkedIn
Enhance any social network or community with instant messaging and ambient notifications, both on-desktop and on-web. Launched chat for Facebook before Facebook native chat existed.
Founder & CEO
Felicis Ventures, Peter Thiel, Georges Harik, Hank Barry
Acquired by iSkoot → Acquired by Qualcomm
A social discovery service that let you discover and share new content (news, images, videos, products) with your friends.
Founder & CEO
Felicis Ventures, Peter Thiel, Georges Harik, Hank Barry
Became social.im
A source for community-generated ringtones. Enabled consumers to create a ringtone from a sound clip or from their recorded voice with no download required, send a ringtone for free to their own phone or to a friend's phone (in the USA and internationally), rate a ringtone, and easily promote their favorite ringtones
Founder
Acquired by YoYo Mobile
An environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web
Founder

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Advisor / Investor

With Mixer Labs' GeoAPI, application developers can quickly create location-based applications that let users both get and add information about places. GeoAPI services include a reverse geocoder; deep data about 16 million businesses and tens of thousands of points of interest; a writable layer for developers to annotate the world and do complex geo-queries; and location-enabled media layers (e.g., Twitter and Flickr)
Acquired by Twitter
Provider of mobile-optimized social networking services on mobile carriers worldwide. Makers of iSkoot for Skype, AT&T Social Net, Verizon SocialBeat, and more »
Acquired by Qualcomm
Loosecubes is a community of independent people building a global network of shared workspaces. Rent a desk or a meeting room for a day, week, or month. Read more »
Connecting consumers with trusthworthy local service providers nationwide. Read more »
Dedicated to helping parents guard their kid's online safety, identity, and reputation. Read more »
Acquired by Experian
BoostCTR is a tool for advertisers to outsource ad writing and testing. It gives advertisers access to a scalable network of expert writers. Writers on the other hand select from thousands of ad copy contests and write when it is convenient. Read more »
Group-based e-commerce platform that allows consumers to bypass supermarkets and buy directly from the wholesalers and farms that supply them. By doing so, consumers get access to fresher sources of food and save 20% to 30% on their groceries.
blip.me is a fun, useful, and free way to turn your mobile phone into a push-to-talk walkie-talkie.
Makes it easy to recommend real-world places, explore personal history, discover new places from trusted sources and share places with friends and followers.

Venture & EIR