Prior to Meritech, Dan was a Senior Associate at Manifold where he sourced or was actively involved with Talkatoo, PTO Exchange, and Yellowbird. He started his career as an Associate at OpenView Ventures where he sourced Encamp's Series B and published the 2020 SaaS Benchmarks. Dan graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He is a Chicago native, proud uncle and aspiring functional programmer.