hey, world. i'm Daniel. i'm happily married, a tech/AI maximalist, proactive investor, growing athlete & dog enthusiast. i helplessly build things.

  • co-founder @ Gentrace – AI evals / tracing, 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 both personally x scout: AI, dev tools, B2BSaaS, infra, future of work, vertical SaaS, & any strong founder

    • personal:

    • linear – pre-seed
    • n8n – pre-seed
    • gitar – seed
    • kindred – series a
    • rain – seed
    • playbook – series a
    • adaptive – seed
    • sirona – pre-seed
    • residesk – seed
    • meliora – seed
    • headsup (acq hightouch) – seed
    • highlight (acq launchdarkly) – seed

    a16z scout fund III (sponsor: Jennifer Li, GP @ SaaS / infra):

    • superlink – pre-seed

    ex-craft scout (Sack's fund):

    • nitra – seed
    • codegen – series a
    • launchnotes – series a
    • nango – seed
    • sonoma – pre-seed
    • jericho – seed

  • 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 🇮🇩

hi at danielcliem.com