Ivan Bercovich

General Partner

Ivan's technical expertise centers on structured data, knowledge graphs, and natural language processing. He focuses on companies building vertical AI and data-intensive applications. Ivan has spent many years refining the human-in-the-loop model, pushing humans up the stack as ML techniques improve. He loves thinking and experimenting with management and organizational approaches to optimize product and software development and foster innovation.

Prior to his current role, Ivan spent ten years at Graphiq, where he built one of the largest general knowledge graphs and developed natural language understanding and generation technology. Graphiq became a leading research engine, attracting 40+ million monthly visits and generating 400 million monthly impressions of their knowledge graph across the internet.

Following Amazon's acquisition of Graphiq in 2017, Ivan led a team of 150, including software developers and knowledge engineers. The system his team developed powered Alexa's open domain question understanding and answering. The team developed solutions for natural language processing, knowledge retrieval, and language generation, while also building internal tools that enabled knowledge engineers to define complex knowledge representations and ingest billions of facts.