Investing Profile

Dan Elitzer(48)

VC
Founder, Nascent
nascent.xyzSan Francisco, California
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MIT Sloan School of Management Network
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Pomona College Network
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Current Investing Position
Nascent Managing Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $1M
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
5

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Dan Elitzer's Investments On Record (5)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Union Labs
SeedNov 2023$4M
$4M
Thesis
Series AJul 2021$21M
$29M
Co-investors: Santiago Roel Santos (ParaFi Capital), Kevin Love
Syndicate
SeedMar 2021$1M
$28M
Co-investors: Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Baek Kim (Hashed), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Joyce Yang (Seed Club Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Tom Bedecarre (WPP Ventures), Steve Blank (M34 Capital), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Niraj Pant (Hack VC), Ash Egan (Archetype), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Seed Club Ventures), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Stani Kulechov, Andrew Steinwold, Scott Belsky, Imran Khan, Tyler Scott Ward, Anastasia Andrianova, Rene Reinsberg, Sina Habibi, Regan Bozman, Eric Wu, David Nage, Jess Sloss, Adam Jackson, Luis Cuende, Bo Shao, Brad Holden, Steve Weinstein, Biz Stone, Balaji Srinivasan, Alice Lloyd George, Do Kwon, Alex Pack, Nathaniel Whittemore, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries
PoolTogether
SeedFeb 2020$1M
$2.3M
Co-investors: Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Stani Kulechov
Messari
Pre-SeedMar 2018$1M
$61M
Co-investors: Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Yann Ranchere (Anthemis Group), Ali Tamaseb (DCVC (Data Collective)), Adam K. Carson (Point72 Ventures), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Richard Dulude (Underscore VC), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Group), Mo El-Bibany, Balaji Srinivasan, Sean Park

most interested in

I'm currently exclusively investing in distributed web, blockchain, and crypto-related ventures, with a focus on Open Finance/DeFi and anything that improves UX and expands the market for cryptoassets

not interested in

Enterprise/private blockchains

Dan Elitzer's Experience

Investor IDEO2018 - Present
Blockchain & Distributed Web Lead IDEO2015 - 2018

Dan Elitzer's Education

Pomona College BA Psychology
MIT Sloan School of Management MBA