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-founding Gentrace.ai – an observability / evaluation platform for LLMs, with Doug Safreno & Vivek Nair. we have $3.5M seed; we believe AI is going to change everything
- early stage investing in future of work and SaaS: productivity tools, infra / devOps, AI, vertical SaaS. both personally and as a scout @ Craft ventures (David Sack's fund):
- prev did my tour around SV: investor @ Obvious ventures (Ev William's fund), product @ Uber, Dropbox & FiscalNote (all three of which have since gone public), specializing in devOps, mobile & SaaS products
- graduated CS @ Stanford; dropped out of Masters in BMI
- own a home in Sunset, SF for 5+ yrs, Bay Area 12+; 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 (wedding gift)
- co-own (w in-laws) a 7yr 90lb lab named Max
- occassionally on Twitter, even though it's largely a distraction..
- made in 🇺🇸; proud 2nd gen Chinese-Indonesian 🇮🇩
• Linear.app – pre-seed (personal)
• n8n.io – pre-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 – seed (personal)
• Headsup.ai – seed (personal)
• Cooby.co – (craft)
• Highlight.run – seed (personal)
others not particularly SaaS but i've worked with / believe in the founder:
• Nitra.com – seed (craft)
• Kindred – (personal)
• Meliora Therapeutics – seed (personal)
• Bonfire.xyz – seed (craft)
• Rain.xyz – seed (personal)
hi@danielcliem.com