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Dan Weld

Artificial Intelligence Research Leader

Seattle, Washington

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Algorithms
Distributed Systems
Big Data
Software Engineering
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Start-ups
Mobile Applications
Scalability
Text Mining
Computer Science
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Software Development
Analytics
LaTeX

Education

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Based in Seattle

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14752 people

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19695 people

Investments

Versive

Seed Round

Total Funding: $74M

Work Experience

AI
Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

2018

  • General Manager & Chief Scientist for Semantic Scholar

    2021

  • Senior Research Manager

    2018 - 2021

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University of Washington

1988

  • Professor Emeritus

    2021

  • WRT / TJ Cable Professor

    1988 - 2021

    Teaching undergraduates & graduate students; performing research on artificial intelligence, machine learning, crowdsourcing & intelligent interfaces.

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Madrona Venture Group

2001

  • Venture Partner

    2001

    Madrona is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, investing mainly in seed and Series A technology based companies. The firm has over two decades of helping technology entrepreneurs launch and grow world-class companies. Madrona has been an early investor in companies such as Amazon.com, Apptio, Isilon Systems and Redfin. They invested in several of my startups (Netbot, Adrelevance & Nimble Technology) as well as other tech spinouts from UW.

AdRelevance

1999 - 2000

  • Founder / Chief Scientist

    1999 - 2000

Netbot

1996 - 1998

  • Founder, Director, VP Engineering

    1996 - 1998