hey, world. i'm Daniel. i'm happily married, a tech enthusiast, an active investor, an addicted athlete & dog lover (my favicon). i helplessly build things as a hobby.

  • co-founder, COO @ Gentrace – test and prod evals for gen AI, with Doug & Vivek. customers include growth/public tech cos; we've $3.75M seed, advisors/backers include founders x leaders @ Figma, Webflow, Linear, Asana, Faire, Ironclad, Handshake, Instawork, Instabase, Carta, Chronosphere, +more.

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

    • • Linear.app – pre-seed (personal)
    • n8n.io – pre-seed (personal)
    • Gitar.co – seed (personal)
    • Playbook.com – personal
    • Sirona Medical – pre-seed (personal)
    • Launchnotes.com – craft
    • Oslash.com – seed (personal)
    • Nango.dev – seed (craft)
    • Dromo.io – seed (personal)
    • Viable.fit – seed (personal)
    • Headsup.ai, acq by Hightouch.io – seed (personal)
    • Cooby.co – craft
    • Pantheon – seed (craft)
    • Highlight.run – seed (personal)
    • Jericho Security – seed (craft)
    • Codia – pre-seed (craft)

    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 Therapeutics – seed (personal)
    • Bonfire.xyz – seed (craft)
    • Rain.xyz – seed (personal)
    • Nitra.com – seed (craft)

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

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

  • own a home in Sunset, SF for 6+ yrs, Bay Area 13+; 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 8yr 90lb lab named Max

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

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

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