Ivan Bercovich

About

Ivan currently makes investments through his fund, ScOp Venture Capital. Prior to investing full time, he spent ten years at Graphiq, a startup eventually sold to Amazon, where he remained for three years until 2020. At Graphiq, his team built one of the largest general knowledge graphs and developed natural language understanding and generation technology, which became Alexa's pre-LLM Q&A engine. At Amazon he managed a team of 140, which gave him a lot of time to think about and experiment with management and organizational approaches to optimize product and software development and foster innovation. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was briefly a Ph.D. student in Financial Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara.