Andrew Berman
Co-Founder & CEO of Runlayer (MCP AI-agent security startup; ~$11M seed, launched Nov 2025); previously Director of AI at Zapier (~2023-2024, joined when Zapier acquired his startup Vowel). Listed on Ravenna’s about-us page as both an angel investor and an advisor.
Ravenna Relevance
- Personal angel investor + advisor to Ravenna’s $15M round (Apr 2025).
- 4th Zapier exec on Ravenna’s cap table — alongside Foster (CEO), Knoop (Co-founder/Head of AI), Helmig (CTO/Co-founder).
- Likely Halliday’s direct successor or peer at Zapier — Halliday was Director of Engineering, AI at Zapier (Nov 2023 – Jul 2024); Berman was Director of AI at Zapier (~2023-2024). ^[inferred — same role family / overlapping reporting line plausible]
This 4-Zapier-exec angel concentration is the densest founder-mafia pattern in the AI ITSM cap-table dataset. See cap-table-patterns-across-startup-competitors.