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About
Erik is an engineering leader and angel investor. He runs the machine learning organization for LinkedIn Talent Solutions, building LinkedIn's leading product Recruiter. Erik was part of the founding team at Connectifier, running all of engineering for the company. LinkedIn acquired Connectifier in 2016, and Microsoft acquired LinkedIn the same year. The Connectifier founding team previously worked together on Google Analytics. Before that, Erik was a security researcher at Websense (now Forcepoint) and UC San Diego, and also worked at Microsoft Research and NASA.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 160 investors hold the Co-founder and CTO role in VCSift. Erik Buchanan is one of them.
- • 1,751 investors are based in California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Location
- California, US
Contact Information
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