hey, world. i'm Daniel. i'm happily married, a tech maximalist, a proactive investor, an obsessive athlete & dog enthusiast. i helplessly build on wkends to combat boredom.
- 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):
- 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 🇮🇩
• 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 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
• rain – seed (personal)
• meliora – seed (personal)
• bonfire – seed (craft)
• nitra – seed (craft)
hi at danielcliem.com