hey, world. i'm Daniel. i'm happily married, a tech enthusiast, an active investor, an addicted athletedog lover. i helplessly build things as a hobby.

  • co-founder @ Gentrace – AI evals, with Doug & Vivek; customers include Walmart, Quizlet, Asana +more.

    raised $14M (A led by Matrix) + founders x leaders at Figma, Webflow, Linear, Asana, Faire, Ironclad, Handshake, Instawork, Carta, Sentry, Chronosphere, Big Eye, Gem, Lightstep, Motive, OpenTelemetry, etc.

  • startup investing in B2B SaaS: dev tools, AI, AI infra, productivity tools, future of work, vertical SaaS. both personally x scout @ craft (Sack's fund; $3B+ AUM):

  • linear – pre-seed (personal)
    n8n – pre-seed (personal)
    gitar – seed (personal)
    playbook – personal
    adaptive – seed (personal)
    codegen – craft
    sirona – pre-seed (personal)
    launchnotes – craft
    nango – seed (craft)
    dromo – seed (personal)
    headsup (acq by hightouch) – seed (personal)
    sonoma – pre-seed (craft)
    highlight – seed (personal)
    jericho – seed (craft)
    residesk – seed (personal)

    others not particularly B2B but has angle in future of work x vertical SaaS / i've worked with / believe in the founder:

    kindred – personal
    meliora – seed (personal)
    bonfire – seed (craft)
    rain – seed (personal)
    nitra – seed (craft)

  • prev did my tour in SV: investor @ obvious (Ev William's fund; $1B+ AUM), PM @ Uber (platform), Dropbox (mobile platform) & FiscalNote (all three of which have since gone public); scaled Uber x Dropbox's test, release and CI/CD infrastructures

  • graduated CS (HCI) @ Stanford; dropped out of BMI masters

  • own a home in Sunset, SF for 7+ yrs, Bay Area 14+; Arcadia, LA native (went to AHS) w one slightly smarter brother. Thought I was going to be a doctor

  • addicted to cycling; own an Ultra Stealth Canyon Aeroad CFR disc Di2

  • have 9yr 90lb lab named Max

  • currently playing IRL Catan

  • occassionally on X, even though it's largely a distraction..

  • made in 🇺🇸; proud 2nd gen Chinese-Indonesian 🇮🇩

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