Daniel C. Liem

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Raised $14M for Gentrace with notable clients
  • Built SaaS and AI tools impacting millions
  • First check investor in over 50 startups
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI investment expert with a strong product management background.

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Skills

Core Skills

StrategyAi EngineeringInvestmentAiAi SaasProduct ManagementSalesFundraising

Other Skills

BizOpsSpecial ProjectsCorp DevExpansionTraining DataAI enablementGTM enablementDev toolsInfraSaaSFuture of workProductivityVertical SaaSInfrastructureLLM evaluation

About

Built 0 → 1 SaaS, AI, dev, and productivity tools the past decade. Now at Decagon. Raised $14M as a founder at Gentrace, with customers like Walmart, Asana, Quizlet and more; scaled Uber x Dropbox's test, release and CI/CD infra to millions of users. First check investor in 50+ startups: Linear, n8n, Codegen, Kindred, Rain, Trajectory, Ando, Nitra, more; danielcliem.com

Experience

Decagon

Founder's Office

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · San Francisco

  • Strategy, BizOps, Special Projects, Corp Dev, AI Engineering, Expansion, Training Data, AI enablement, GTM enablement, and more.
StrategyBizOpsSpecial ProjectsCorp DevAI EngineeringExpansion+3

Andreessen horowitz

Scout

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Early Stage

  • Scout Fund III - sponsor: Jennifer Li, GP Lead on AI SaaS & Infrastructure.
  • Investments: Malleable, Ando, Synthetic Labs, Usebits, Aurorincad, Cadrian, Archiboost, Superlink, Midian Life, Vibranium, more TBA.
InvestmentAI SaaSInfrastructure

Gentrace

Co-Founder, COO

Jan 2021Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco x NYC

  • LLM evaluation platform for testing performance and catching regressions. Customers include Walmart, Quizlet, Asana, Webflow, Faire, Jasper, Multiverse, Rewind and more.
  • Lead product, sales / GTM, marketing / PR, CSM, community, growth, ops, legal, recruiting, and IR. Hired and managed a team of 4, and lead all onsite product discovery ➝ forward deployed sales motion ➝ ongoing XFN customer relationships, customer success and QBRs. Organized 10+ sales dinners x community events to drive distribution and awareness.
  • Raised $14M (Series A by Matrix, Seed by Pear, K9, Headline), includes founders x leaders at Figma, Webflow, Linear, Asana, Faire, Ironclad, Handshake, Carta, Sentry, Chronosphere, Big Eye, Gem, OTeL, OpenRouter, etc.
  • Learn how customers increased AI quality and testing by 40x at Gentrace.ai
LLM evaluationProduct managementSalesGTMMarketingCustomer success+2

Craft ventures

Scout

Jan 2021Jan 2025 · 4 yrs · Early Stage

  • David Sack's fund - Investments: Codegen (acq Clickup), Nango, Launchnotes, Sonoma, Jericho, Nitra, Pantheon, Codia.
InvestmentEarly stage funding

Obvious ventures

Investor

Jan 2019Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · San Francisco

  • Early stage VC co-founded by Ev Williams (Twitter / Medium co-founder). Fund III - focus areas: productivity tools, future of work, vertical SaaS.
  • Coverage: Recursion (IPO: $RXRX), LabGenius, Dexterity, Incredible Health, Darwin AI (acq), Amply (acq), Inato, Corvus, Swiftscale (acq), Galileo, Hedvig, Iterative, Octave, One Finance (acq), Sinai
InvestmentProductivity toolsVertical SaaS

Dropbox

Product Manager

Jan 2018Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco

  • Product Manager II on Mobile Platform for Dropbox Core and Paper apps.
Product managementMobile platform development

Uber

Product Manager

Dec 2015Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco x Palo Alto

  • Product Manager I on Product Platform (release, test, CI/CD infra) for our millions of users.
  • Leadership: founded the Release Management org, enabling product teams (Rider, Driver, Eats, Freight, and more) to hire their own release managers and independently operate release life cycles
  • Product: XFN collaboration effort building the Release Platform Team (6 eng), Test Platform (5 eng), MDM/Device Lab Platform (6 eng), CI/CD Platform, and more. Spanned many engineering orgs:
  • Built infrastructure to successfully and reliably launch the redesign of Rider app (Helix) in 6 months
  • Released the first iOS Driver app to the Apple store
  • Kleiner Perkins Product Fellow '16
  • Instructor at Product School
  • Mentor at First Round Fast Track x Dorm Room Fund
Product managementCI/CD infrastructure

Fiscalnote

Associate Product Manager

Jun 2015Dec 2015 · 6 mos · Washington, D.C.

  • APM program on front-end web app team (6 engineers, design, EM, marketing).
  • SPAC: $DSAC, prior to $NOTE.
Product managementWeb app development

Daniel c. liem capital, llc

Investor

Jan 2015Present · 11 yrs 3 mos · F&F - Seed

  • 50+ personal investments: Linear, n8n, Kindred, Rain, Gitar, Trajectory, Lumena, Synthetic Labs, Adaptive, Malleable, Ando, Sirona, Playbook, Headsup (acq Hightouch), Highlight (acq LaunchDarkly), Residesk, Meliora, Charcoal (fka Jetti), and more.
  • Focus: AI, dev tools, infra, SaaS, future of work, productivity, vertical SaaS, and any strong founder.
InvestmentAIDev toolsInfraSaaSFuture of work+2

Education

Stanford University

B.S. — Computer Science – Human-Computer Interaction

Stanford University School of Medicine

M.S. — Biomedical Informatics

Doshisha University

Bing Overseas Studies Program

Arcadia High School

Gold & Silver Seal Graduate — Salutatorian

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