Yan-David Erlich

Engineer, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Investor, Jewish, Potential employer, Startup, Technologist, World traveler

Yan-David Erlich ("Yanda") is the COO of Weights & Biases, the developer platform for machine learning. Prior, Yanda was a General Partner at Coatue where he led the enterprise software investing practice and led Coatue's investments in Weights & Biases, Impira, Infinitus, Fin, Abacus, Bonjour, Covariant, and Raycast. He is also a 4-time venture-backed Founder/CEO, most recently of Parsable: the Connected Worker platform for industrial teams. He also founded ChoiceVendor (acquired by LinkedIn), Mogad (acquired by Qualcomm) and Happiness Engines. He is an active angel and an early investor in Mixer Labs (acq. Twitter), Thumbtack, MasterClass, CircleUp, and Buddybuild (acq. Apple). Yan-David started his career with software engineering and product management roles at both Google and Microsoft. He has a Bachelor of Science in both Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Erlich has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Being conscious

Teaching machines to help us solve existential problems for humanity

company formation, seed investing, software

Telling jokes