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Yazan El-baba

Principal at Emergence Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Yazan El-Baba is a Principal at Emergence Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a strong background in financial modeling and direct lending. He has experience in business operations, corporate development, and product strategy at LinkedIn, and has worked as an FP&A Analyst at Microsoft. Yazan has excelled in roles such as Principal at Emergence Capital and in various business operations positions at LinkedIn, showcasing expertise in financial analysis and strategic decision-making in the tech and finance industries.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Principal

    2022 - 2024

  • Associate / Sr Associate

    2019 - 2022

Emergence supported a few carefully selected CEOs who shared our vision that corporate software would migrate to the cloud.

  • Board Director

    2025

Bland AI is the infrastructure for building AI phone-calling applications at scale.

Raised $16,000,000.00 from Cameron Ventures, Y Combinator, Scale Venture Partners, Jeff Lawson, Max Levchin, Upfront Ventures and Piotr Dabkowski.

  • Board Observer

    2024

    Co-led seed, led Series A

  • Board Observer

    2024

Arcee AI is a pioneer in small language models (SLMs) and provider of an end-to-end Agentic AI solution.

Raised $29,500,000.00 from Scott Banister, Emergence, Centre Street Partners, Arcadia Capital, Flybridge and Journey Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2024

Mechanical Orchard is an AI-native technology company that modernizes critical legacy applications without disrupting what they’re doing.

Raised $81,000,000.00 from Google Ventures.

  • Investor

    2023

    Co-led Series A, investors in every round thereafter

Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models.

Raised $228,500,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Soumith Chintala, Lux Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Greycroft, Manu Sharma, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Factory and Clément Delangue.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Maze is the continuous product discovery platform for user-centric teams.

Raised $57,472,923.00 from Amplify Partners, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Seedcamp, Justin Bauer, Felicis, Zoom Ventures, Emergence, Partech and Anne Raimondi.

  • Business Operations (Product Strategy)

    2019 - 2019

  • Corporate Development (M&A)

    2018 - 2019

  • Business Operations (GTM Strategy)

    2017 - 2018

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  • Wrestling Broadcaster

    2014 - 2017

    On-air play-by-play and color commentator

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  • FP&A Analyst

    2016 - 2016

    Financial planning & analysis - central finance team

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