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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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
$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: David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Baek Kim (Hashed), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), 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), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Raj Gokal (Solana 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), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Scott Belsky, 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, Trevor McFedries, Imran Khan, Eric Wu, David Nage, Adam Jackson, Brad Holden, Biz Stone, 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: 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), Sean Park, Balaji Srinivasan, Mo El-Bibany

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