About Erik Nordlander
Erik Nordlander is a general partner at GV in New York, and he led GV's seed investment in Blacksmith.
Before joining GV in 2010, he led the development of Google's next-generation display ad serving system.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Erik Nordlander in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
GV
GV Current
General Partner
Blacksmith Software Inc.
Director
2026 · New York, NY
Blacksmith runs engineering teams' GitHub Actions jobs on its own bare-metal servers, with CI monitoring and a coding agent that fixes failed builds.
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Google
Education
- Computer science and engineering, MIT
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Erik Nordlander works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Blacksmith Software Inc. · Form D, Aug 19, 2026
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Aayush Shah
Co-founder and director
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Aditya Jayaprakash
Co-founder & CEO, director
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Aditya Maru
Co-founder and director
Erik Nordlander in the News
Sources
- SECBlacksmith Software Inc. Form D, filed Aug 19, 2026
- Officialgv.com, his post on GV's Blacksmith Series A (2025-09-23)
- Officialblacksmith.sh, seed announcement (seed led by Erik Nordlander at GV)
- OfficialBlacksmith seed press release, PR Newswire (2025-05-01): 'Erik Nordlander, General Partner at GV'