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
6

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Dan Elitzer's Investments On Record (6)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
EarthFast
Pre SeedSep 2024$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Daniel Portillo (The General Partnership)
Union Labs
SeedNov 2023$4M
$16M
Co-investors: Nassim Olive (Eterna Capital)
Thesis
Series AJul 2021$21M
$29M
Co-investors: Kevin Love
Syndicate
SeedMar 2021$1M
$28M
Co-investors: Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), 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), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Niraj Pant (Hack VC), 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), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Regan Bozman, Anastasia Andrianova, Andrew Steinwold, Biz Stone, Tegan Kline, Stani Kulechov, Trevor McFedries, Tyler Scott Ward, Rene Reinsberg, Imran Khan, Sina Habibi, Luis Cuende, Do Kwon, Nathaniel Whittemore, Jess Sloss, Eric Wu, David Nage
PoolTogether
SeedFeb 2020$1M
$2.3M
Co-investors: Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Stani Kulechov
Messari
Pre-SeedMar 2018$1M
$22M
Co-investors: Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Ali Tamaseb (DCVC (Data Collective)), Richard Dulude (Underscore VC), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Group), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), 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

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

Dan Elitzer's Education

Pomona College BA Psychology
MIT Sloan School of Management MBA