Yan-David Erlich

Yan-David Erlich is a General Partner at B Capital based in San Francisco, California, where he focuses on early-stage and growth-stage technology investments. Before joining B Capital, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Revenue Officer at Weights & Biases, leading sales and strategy teams after initially backing the company as an angel investor and Series A lead. Prior to this, Erlich was a General Partner at Coatue Management, launching and managing the firm's enterprise venture practice. As an entrepreneur, he founded four venture-backed companies that resulted in successful exits, including ChoiceVendor, which was acquired by LinkedIn, alongside Parsable, Mogad, and Happiness Engines. Holding an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS from Rice University, Erlich combines his operational and investment expertise to support emerging artificial intelligence and developer platforms.