Investing Profile

John Danner

InvestorVC

Angel Investor at Dunce Capital

duncecapital.comSan Francisco, California

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Stanford University Network

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Vanderbilt University Network

120 CONNECTIONS

Maven Network

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Current Investing Position

Dunce Capital Angel

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

John Danner is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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John Danner's Investments On Record (23)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Odyssey	SeedOct 2022$5M	$410M
Co-investors: Jay Zaveri (Social Capital), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Anne Lee Skates (Andreessen Horowitz), Nick Grossman (Union Square Ventures), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Benjamin Ling (Bling Capital), Lucas Vaz (Ravelin Capital), Katelyn Donnelly (Avalanche VC), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Charlie Pinto (Fundamental Ventures), Bradley Tusk (Tusk Venture Partners), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Kyle Vogt (Unknown Ventures), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Rick Zullo (Equal Ventures), Sharif Sakr (Breyer Capital), Balder Bomans (Maven 11 Capital), Jinal Jhaveri (Runa Capital), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Trent McConaghy
FourthRev	Series AJan 2022$8M SeedFeb 2021$3M Pre SeedMar 2020$300K	$11M
Co-investors: Shauntel Poulson (Reach Capital), James Kim (Reach Capital), Litzie Maarek (Educapital), Charlie Songhurst
Stoa	SeedOct 2021$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Ankur Nagpal (USVC), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital), Gagan Biyani (Maven Ventures), Kunal Shah
Geniebook	Series AOct 2021$17M	$17M
Co-investors: Roman Saini (Unacademy), Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Dev Khare (Lightspeed India Partners Advisors)
Ender	Pre SeedOct 2021$1M	$7M
Co-investors: Joshua Baer (Capital Thought), Andrew Busey (Hypergiant), Dan Graham (Springdale Ventures), Brett Hurt (Austin Ventures), Dharmesh Shah
Maven	SeedNov 2020$4M	$33M
Co-investors: Sunil Rajaraman (Sequoia Capital), Andrew Chen (Andreessen Horowitz), Caitlin Szikszai (Coinbase Ventures), Neeraj Berry (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Nitesh Banta (Getaround), Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Rudra Peram (Moving Capital), Sahil Lavingia
GetSetUp	SeedOct 2020$10M AngelFeb 2020	$20M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Matthew Greenfield (Rethink Education), Rich Greenfield (LightShed Ventures), David Ko (Calm Ventures), Abby Miller Levy (Primetime Partners), Daniel Rosensweig (Chegg Inc.), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Vibhu Mittal, Mark Pincus
Prendea	Pre SeedSep 2020
Co-investors: Blaine Vess (Immeasurable)

John Danner's Experience

Public school teacher Metro Nashville Public SchoolsPresent

Angel Investor Dunce CapitalPresent

Angel Investor Zeal LearningPresent

Angel Investor Danner CapitalPresent

Investor and Advisor OutschoolPresent

Investor and Board Member Lambda SchoolPresent

Investor and Board Member BloomTechPresent

Investor and Advisor GetSetUpPresent

Investor and Advisor MavenPresent

Investor and Advisor Maven VenturesPresent

Student Stanford UniversityPresent

Lecturer Zeal LearningPresent

Lecturer Stanford UniversityPresent

Co-founder and CEO NetGravity DoubleClickPresent

Co-Founder and CEO Rocketship Public SchoolsPresent

Co-Founder and CEO Rocketship EducationPresent

Co-Founder and CEO Zeal LearningPresent

Co-Founder and Chairman Zeal LearningPresent

Co-Founder Project Read AIPresent

Co-Founder and Chairman Sage AI Tutor by Spark SpacePresent

Co-Founder and Chairman Spark SpacePresent

Co-Founder Flourish Middle SchoolsPresent

Co-Founder Flourish SchoolsPresent

John Danner's Education

Bellarmine College Preparatory HS HS

Stanford University B.S. Electrical Engineering

Vanderbilt University M. Ed. Education Policy

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