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
Led $27M Series A
Board Director
2025
Led $40M Series B
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 $6.6M seed, led $12M Series A
Board Observer
2024
Led $24M Series A
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
Led $24M Series A
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 $102.5M Series A
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
Led $15M Series A
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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