Yazan El-baba
Principal at Emergence Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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
Big Ten Network is a company which has developed an app BTN2Go to delivers live and on-demand programming to existing BTN subscribers via
FP&A Analyst
2016 - 2016
Financial planning & analysis - central finance team
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.