hey, world. i'm Daniel. i'm happily married, a tech/AI maximalist, proactive investor, growing athletedog 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

  • 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

  • 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 🇮🇩

hi at danielcliem.com