Dan Elitzer(48)

Founder, Nascent

nascent.xyzSan Francisco, California

Current Investing Position

Nascent Managing Partner

Investment Range

$250K - $1M

Sweet Spot

$500K

Investments On Record

Dan Elitzer's Investments On Record (6)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
EarthFast	Pre SeedSep 2024$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Daniel Portillo (The General Partnership), Roneil Rumburg
Union Labs	SeedNov 2023$4M	$16M
Co-investors: Nassim Olive (Eterna Capital)
Thesis	Series AJul 2021$21M	$29M
Co-investors: Santiago Roel Santos (ParaFi Capital), Kevin Love
Syndicate	SeedMar 2021$1M	$28M
Co-investors: Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Baek Kim (Hashed), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), 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), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club 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), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Trevor McFedries, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Nathaniel Whittemore, Do Kwon, Luis Cuende, Sina Habibi, Rene Reinsberg, Tyler Scott Ward, Regan Bozman, Anastasia Andrianova, Andrew Steinwold, Stani Kulechov, Jess Sloss, Bo Shao, Steve Weinstein, Balaji Srinivasan, Alex Pack, Tegan Kline, Imran Khan, Eric Wu, David Nage, Adam Jackson, Brad Holden, Biz Stone, Scott Belsky, Alice Lloyd George
PoolTogether	SeedFeb 2020$1M	$2.3M
Co-investors: Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Stani Kulechov
Messari	Pre-SeedMar 2018$1M	$61M
Co-investors: Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Yann Ranchere (Anthemis Group), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Ali Tamaseb (DCVC (Data Collective)), Adam K. Carson (Point72 Ventures), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Richard Dulude (Underscore VC), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Group), Sean Park, Balaji Srinivasan, Mo El-Bibany

Dan Elitzer's Media (1)

Superfluid Collateral in Open Finance

tokeneconomy.co

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

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