| Virginia Tech, Bachelor of Science | 2002 |
| Computer Science |
Brent Metz is co-founder and VP of Engineering at Yext.
He is responsible for the company’s technology platform. Prior to founding Yext, Brent was a senior scientist at IBM’s Speech Recognition Labs, helping to guide the Company’s overall voice strategy and representing the company to the technical community. He is a domain expert in Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technologies, with over a dozen patents pending. Mr. Metz is an IBM Extreme Blue alumnus, a distinction he earned while completing his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Virginia Tech.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Yext | 11/06 | Seed | $250k | 3 |
