Hi, I'm Yan-David

Friends call me Yanda. You can too.

Work bio

General Partner at B Capital where I lead investments in tech & AI startups from seed to pre-IPO. Particularly passionate about helping founders usher-in the era of AI friends & coworkers: across models, tooling, infra, apps, and intelligent beings. Led our investments in Perplexity (Series D), Unblocked (Series A), Goodfire (Series A)
COO & CRO at Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform:
- Angel investor at the Seed round (2018). Led the Series A, representing Coatue in Jan 2019. Board Director.
- Joined operationally as Chief Operating Officer in June 2021. Built out the Sales, Customer Success, BD & Partnerships, Strategy, and Data Science teams.
- Chief Revenue Officer in 2 stints, total of 2 years. Oversaw Sales, Customer Success, Revenue Operations & Strategy globally. Built-out and managed high-performance team. Company hit/beat plan on Gross and Net ARR every quarter I was CRO.
General Partner at Coatue:
- Helped start and ran the enterprise investing practice for the Venture funds (Seed through Series B)
- Led AI/ML investments in Weights & Biases (Series A), Impira (Series B), Infinitus (Series A), Abacus (Series B), Covariant (Series B), and Raycast (Series A)
Active angel investor, including in Thumbtack and MasterClass. Also helped start MuckerLab, LA's premier venture accelerator.
Founded 4 venture-backed B2B companies, including ChoiceVendor (acquired by LinkedIn) and Parsable.
Started my career at Google and Microsoft
Studied Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Still write code (mostly Python & Swift for fun these days)

Where to find me

𝕏 (fka Twitter)
LinkedIn
Medium
If we work together, I recommend reading my Personal User Manual

Tools you can use

Many have enjoyed and use my negotiation cheat sheet
I love building and helping founders. The combo has yielded the below tools:
- A cap table simulator
- A blogpost with an associated spreadsheet on how to help employees think through the value of their equity
In Zoom times, folks have asked me about my camera setup
Some book recommendations if you like that sort of thing
I regularly meditate and really enjoy meditation. Here are some of my favorite meditation resources.