Spent three decades building startups alongside founders and studying what makes them work.
Founder, investor, and advisor.
President + MD of Unfound Ventures.
Unfound Ventures is dedicated to building, backing and engaging with founder-led companies. We seek to amplify founder superpowers and accelerate the journey.
An AI-native venture formation firm built around repeat founders. Incubated and backed by Unfound Ventures.
seaturtlelabs.com ↗Research and a forthcoming book on co-founder partnerships.
tandemfounders.com ↗A podcast profiling underrepresented tech founders. 60+ founders interviewed, 2019–2023.
foundersunfound.com ↗Dan also advises founders and ecosystem organizations on venture programs, go-to-market and fundraising.
A study of co-founder partnerships — what makes them work, and what breaks them.
We are pairing a survey dataset on co-founder relationships with the stories behind those relationships. We're talking with investors, ecosystem leaders and co-founders who have seen partnership up close.
Learn more and take part →Dan has spent his career living in the founder mindset. He co-founded MyPoints in 1996, helping take it through an IPO and an acquisition by United Airlines. He was on the founding team of imint in India (acquired by PAYBACK, later part of American Express, now Zillions), an early executive at Cellfire (acquired by Catalina Marketing), and co-founder of Wizely, one of India's first savings apps (acquired by OneCard). Collectively, he's helped these companies raise over $80M in venture capital and exit for $300M+ in value.
Along the way he has backed and built programs for other founders: ten years as a Techstars mentor, Managing Director of Impact Hub Bellevue, and most recently Managing Director of REI's Path Ahead Ventures, which provides programs and funding for innovative outdoor founders. He serves on the board of Outdoor Afro and the WTIA Startup Advisory Board.
He started as a product engineer at Ford, was born and raised in Boston, and will talk lacrosse with anyone who lets him.
A podcast profiling underrepresented tech founders. 60+ founders interviewed, 2019–2023.
foundersunfound.com ↗In the works. Projects and founder resources are on the way.
Good reasons to reach out: the Tandem research, founder conversations, partnerships and speaking.