Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich

Operator‑turned‑investor with deep enterprise AI and developer-platform experience — Yanda is a repeat founder-CEO who scaled product and go-to-market at multiple startups, then moved into investing and operational leadership. He led Parsable as co-founder/CEO, ran Coatue's enterprise venture practice, and later built revenue, customer success and partnerships at Weights & Biases before returning to investing as a General Partner at B Capital. yanda+2

Hands‑on growth and revenue builder — at Weights & Biases Yanda joined operationally (June 2021), built Sales, Customer Success, BD & Partnerships, and Revenue Operations teams, and served multiple CRO stints, citing consistent quota performance and go‑to‑market scale across his tenure. yanda+1

Active angel and early‑stage investor — Yanda has been an angel in and advisor to startups (e.g., Thumbtack, MasterClass) and has led institutional early rounds (represented Coatue in Weights & Biases Series A). He blends founder empathy with investor discipline, focusing on AI tooling, infrastructure, and 'AI coworker' applications. yanda+2

Public communicator and resource‑builder — maintains a personal site and blog with practical tools (cap table simulator, negotiation cheat sheet, camera setup and a personal user manual) and writes about founders' topics, early‑stage equity frameworks, and career transitions. yanda+1