Yoran Beisher
Edge lies where the models fail
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Hey there, I'm Yoran
I'm currently a Strategic Project Lead at mecka.ai, a leading data provider for humanoid robotic companies
Prior to this, I was an investor at Inovia CapitalEarly investor in Cohere, Neo Financial, & WealthSimple, a $2.5B VC firm where I focus on pre-seed and fund-of-fund investing, backing breakout VCs like GarageEarly investor in Groq, Substack, & Ada, WayfinderEarly investor in Supabase, Leya, & Decagon, GTMfundEarly investor in Vanta, Writer, & Owner and category-leading companies like Cohere, Poolside, and Tera AI
I was also the first hire building Defined CapitalEarly investor in Zyphra, Foundation, and Tembo, an early-stage data and AI VC firm, where I helped author the firm's whitepaper, The AI Frontier is Shaping Tomorrow, and helped write our first series of investments
In a past life, I was also building a data-analytics startup in The Residency in San Francisco, and spent some time managing the compute and biomedical engineering programs at Creative Destruction Labs, a global deeptech accelerator
I studied at UBC and conducted Voice AI x Human Empathy research under Behavioral Scientist Yann Cornil
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