Tristan Tao
Founder of HyperArc
Santa Monica, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
What if your BI tool learned about your business the same way your analysts do? What if your BI tool remembers every single analysis you've ever done and suggests things for you to look at? HyperArc is building the frontier of Agentic approach to BI by leveraging your most valuable assets - your human analysts.
HyperArc is a data platform for Web3 providing analytics.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Orange DAO, Mango Capital and Firsthand.vc.
Venture Partner
2017
Investor and Advisor. Fund I and III.
Angel Investor
2019
Rain.AI SuperMove Rora, Inc Edge (payment) answersai.com Various stealth
Advisor
2022 - 2022
Continued consultation for the organization I left behind, as well as advisory to the CEO on topics including GM and M&A.
Vice President of Solutions
2020 - 2022
I helped scale GTM @ Iterable for pre and postsales from $5m to $150m+ ARR over 5 years by owning functional areas including: - Solutions Consulting - Solutions Architecture - Value Consulting - Demo Engineering Some additional responsibilities include: - COGS / margin / pricing - Analyst relations (Forrester / Gartner) - Drove early-stage product roadmap (Series B/C) - Late-stage fundraising (Series C/D/E)
Senior Director, Solutions
2019 - 2020
Leader of our pre-sales Solutions Consulting teams and post-sales Solutions Architect team spanning SF, Denver, NY, and UK.
Director of Solutions Consulting
2017 - 2019
Leader of our pre-sales Solutions Consulting team.
Sales Engineering Lead
2017 - 2017
First one in the arena.
Leadership Council Member
2021 - 2021
I had the honor of serving on the inaugural leadership council for PreSales Leadership Collective over an annual term.
Community for all things PreSales: Leaders + Sales, Solution, Value Engineers + Solutions Architects + Aspiring SEs.
Co-Founder & CTO (YC S15)
2014 - 2019
Product | Engineering | Sales Leada is a venture/Y Combinator backed online education Saas startup based in SF. We are trusted by some of the best universities around the world. Tech - Continuously design, build, and iterate on the product (https://www.teamleada.com/) based on user feedback. - Ran A/B test to drive ~3x increase in demo requests. - Oversaw migration from Heroku to AWS, leading to $15k in quarterly cost saving. - Manage deployments on AWS to ensure 99.999% uptime. Sales / Marketing: - Built out a repeatable inside sales process. - Grew lead generated by 5x in less than 3 months with zero added cost. - Closed $100k+ in sales. - Development of (http://analyticshandbook.com/ 50k+ downloads) to drive organic traffic. Recruiting / Management: - Recruit and manage SDR/lead gen to build a predictable pipeline - Recruit and manage a software delivery team that led to high CSAT with customers like Zenefits, Twitch, and TeeSpring. - Recruit and manage curriculum developers for Python and SQL courses, which became our largest enterprise revenue driver. - Manage engineers and contractors to ensure agile feature delivery. Full time until Jan 2017, part time after.
Leada provides online courses in data science and analytics.
Raised $120,000.00 from Y Combinator.
Business Development
2016 - 2017
Pioneered partnerships with industry leaders including Deloitte, Wipro, and the Auto ISAC. This was a special short-term role reporting directly to the CEO, Marten Mickos.
Interim CTO
2016 - 2016
YCS15 batchmate. (Acq. by Glam&Go in 2017). Interim CTO to lead technical projects including: - Successfully plan and implement a full Braze Integration - Successfully plan and implement FriendBuy referral integration - Technical debt payoff via documentation/test plans - Advise the CEO on tech stack
Software Engineering, Security and Compliance Solutions
2013 - 2013
Built a full featured Splunk app that allows for consumption, visualization and analysis of Cisco NetFlow data exports. Some features inculde: • Predictive analytics of various network traffic utilizing machine learning algorithms (built on top of BSD-licensed 3rd party python libraries). The algorithms offered better prediction than the default built-in Splunk “predict” command which leverages kalman filters. • Fast visualization of GB of data through Splunk’s experimental tool, tsidx. • Continuous real-time network monitoring capability.
Splunk Ventures is an Investment Firm.
Data Science
2012 - 2013
• Designed and built a company popularity ranking model through text sentiment analysis. The project required 200GB+ of unstructured text data analysis and structured intra-day text click data via Hadoop (MapReduce and custom-built UDAF on Hive), R, Java, Open Calais (for NLP, pre-LLMs), and Python. The model performed better than the existing model in several metrics. • Improved automation and monitoring by creating automated server redeployment and backup tools via Fabric. It came in handy when I torched a production server. Valuable lessons were learned. • Maintained and upgraded legacy code.