Erik Bernhardsson, Angel Investor

Erik Bernhardsson is the CEO of Modal Labs, building advanced infrastructure tools for data teams. Previously, he was CTO at Better.com, where he scaled the technology team from 1 to 300 and contributed significantly to product and machine learning systems. He also held engineering leadership roles at Spotify, pioneering recommender systems and open‑source projects. Earlier in his career, Erik worked in high‑frequency trading at Graham Capital Management and spent several years at Spotify in Stockholm and New York. His work consistently emphasized scaling teams, developing machine learning infrastructure, and releasing widely adopted open‑source tools like Luigi and Annoy. Erik is also an angel investor, with a focus on AI, developer tools, and data infrastructure. His recent portfolio includes Archil, Phonic, dottxt, and Cognition, reflecting his commitment to backing founders building transformative technologies in machine learning and software infrastructure.