hey, world. i'm Daniel. i'm happily married, a tech/AI maximalist, proactive investor, growing athlete & dog enthusiast. i helplessly build things, and spent past decade in devtools and b2bsaas.
- 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, OTEL, OpenRouter - invested in 50+ startups (generally first check, avg $10-30K), 1-2x /mo: AI, dev tools, b2bsaas, infra, future of work, vertical SaaS, & any strong founder
- 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 infra to millions of users
- graduated CS (HCI) @ Stanford; dropped out of BMI masters
- own a home in Sunset, SF for 8+ yrs (w an incredibly perfect wife), Bay Area 15+; Arcadia, LA native (went to AHS) w one slightly smarter brother. thought i was going to be a kidney surgeon
- addicted to cycling; own an Ultra Stealth canyon aeroad CFR disc di2
- have 10y yellow lab named max
- currently playing IRL Catan
- occassionally on X, even though it's largely a distraction..
- made in 🇺🇸; proud 2nd gen Chinese-Indonesian 🇮🇩
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
2025-now: a16z scout fund III (sponsor: Jennifer Li, GP @ SaaS / infra)
• malleable – seed
• superlink – pre-seed
• archiboost – seed
2021-25: ex-craft scout (Sack's fund)
• nitra – seed
• codegen – series a
• launchnotes – series a
• nango – seed
• sonoma – pre-seed
• jericho – seed
• pantheon – seed
hi at danielcliem.com