hey, world. i'm Daniel. i'm happily married, a tech/AI maximalist, proactive investor, growing athlete & dog enthusiast. built 0→1 saas, AI, dev and productivity tools for the past decade - and helplessly build other things

  • co-founder @ Gentrace – AI evals / traces, with Doug & Vivek; customers include Walmart, Quizlet, Asana +more.

    raised $14M (A led by Matrix, seed by Pear, Headline, K9) + founders x leaders at Figma, Webflow, Linear, Asana, Faire, Ironclad, Handshake, Instawork, Carta, Sentry, Chronosphere, Big Eye, Gem, Lightstep, Motive, OTEL, OpenRouter.

  • first check in 50+ startups; focus: AI, dev tools, b2bsaas, infra, future of work, vertical SaaS, & any strong founder

    • personal:

    • linear – pre-seed
    • n8n – pre-seed
    • rain – seed
    • gitar – seed
    • kindred – series a
    • malleable – seed
    • lumena – seed
    • ando – seed
    • synthetic lab – pre-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
    • ando – seed
    • synthetic lab – pre-seed
    • cadrian – seed
    • superlink – pre-seed
    • archiboost – seed
    • midian – pre-seed
    • vibranium – 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, dropbox, & fiscalnote; scaled Uber x Dropbox's test, release and CI/CD platforms to millions of users

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

  • own a home in Sunset, SF for 8+ yrs, 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 running & cycling; own an ultra stealth canyon aeroad CFR disc di2

  • have 10y 80lb yellow lab named max

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

  • made in 🇺🇸; proud 1st gen Chinese-Indonesian 🇮🇩

hi at danielcliem.com