Ash Rust
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About
👉 Reach out at apply.sterlingroad.com. Please don't use LinkedIn DMs. Ash Rust is a first check investor and the Managing Partner of Sterling Road. His investments include Serve Robotics (NASDAQ: SERV), Hydra Host and Starcloud. Before investing, he was co-founder and CEO of SendHub (acquired: Cameo Global, Y-Combinator W12), Director of Ranking at Klout (acquired: Lithium) and an Engineer at OneRiot (acquired: Walmart). He earned a Masters in Computer Science from Oxford, served as an Officer in the British Army, and currently resides in San Francisco. Sterling Road invests up to $150k in founders who are just getting started. More info at sterlingroad.com.
Experience
Nov 2011 to Oct 2016
Acquired by Cameo. YC W12. Business Messaging Solutions. Venture backed business messaging startup. The business grew to multi-million dollar revenue with customers such as: Lyft, Wag, Berkshire Hathaway, Booz Allen Hamilton, Yale and Teach for America; before being acquired by Cameo Global in 2015.
Aug 2010 to Nov 2011
Led development of Scoring, Influence Graph and Topics. Scaled scoring and graph algorithms from a few million scores to hundreds of millions.
Oct 2009 to Jul 2010
Led relevance team. Projects: crowdsourced data collection, ML based relevance training & A/B testing.
May 2008 to Oct 2009
Linguistic engineering: efficient solutions for language problems, query meaning and data extraction from free text.
Oct 2003 to May 2008
Led the development of training software, websites, intranets, SEO and internal search solutions.
Jan 2001 to Jan 2002
Commanded 36 soldiers in a Logistics Troop, based in North West Germany.
Education
Jan 2012 to Apr 2012
Dual MSc, Computer Science
Jan 2005 to Jan 2008
BSc, Artificial Intelligence
Jan 2002 to Jan 2005