Dan Becker
Managing Partner at Ligature
Denver, Colorado
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Design, Workspace Platform & Gemini Monetization
2024 - Current
Leading the Platform Monetization org focused on WS & Gemini Growth, Onboarding, Admin, and Reporting
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Founder & Managing Partner
2020
In 2018, I founded Ligature: The Design VC with Daniel Scrivner. We're an early and growth stage venture fund. Our investments include over 60 investments including Public.com, AtoB, Array, Kittl, Opal, ZIINA, and Kick. We invest and then help founders build design into the DNA of their company from day one.
Ligature VC is a venture capital firm.
Advisor
2019
Collaborating on Fund II & Fund III with both Managing Partners on design and product guidance to portfolio companies, and evaluating potential investments through scouting and due diligence.
Head of Design
2023 - 2024
YC and Founders Fund backed company at the intersection of fintech and legal tech.
Pulley is a developer of cap table management, communications hub, and fundraising modeling platforms to manage equity for startups.
Raised $50,150,000.00 from Founders Fund, Jack Altman, Elad Gil, Stripe, La Famiglia, Avichal Garg and Sherwin Gandhi.
Head of Product Design, Content Ecosystems
2022 - 2023
Supporting an org building out new product experiences focused on the future of Content on Instagram. This includes Trend Discovery, Music/Audio, and IG's role in the Metaverse
Head of Product Design, Creators & Discovery
2019 - 2022
Built the org and supported teams focused on Creator Ecosystems, Creator Monetization, Global Search & Discovery, and Video Products.
Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Raised $57,500,000.00 from Greylock, Thrive Capital, Baseline Ventures, DST Global, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital.
Advisor
2021 - 2023
Array delivers embeddable, custom-branded credit and identity tools, personalized offers, and more.
Raised $67,000,000.00 from Xffirmers.
Advisor
2018 - 2022
Senior Manager, Experience Design
2016 - 2019
Led teams to build the tiering and verification platform for the Airbnb Plus sub-brand. Defined key strategies and drove initiatives for the guest experience at launch, then shifted focus to host onboarding and supply growth. After launch, efforts from my teams scaled Airbnb Plus, driving growth from 20 to 200 markets and revenue from $0 to $750M ARR in under 3 years.
Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.
Director, Co-head of Design
2015 - 2016
I led the design team at Strava during hypergrowth alongside Ryan Noonan. During this time I drove initiatives to help increase the Strava community from 8M to 45M+ athletes. United product and brand teams, implementing new design process and bringing a user-centric lens to the work of the team—resulting in award-winning work that accelerated community growth. Managed designers, contractors, vendors; key role in roadmapping, planning, operations with executives.
Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Raised $151,850,000.00 from TCV, Madrone Capital Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, Sequoia Capital, Go4it Capital and Jackson Square Ventures.
Product / UX Design Lead, R&D
2014 - 2015
Led R&D team at Airbnb focused on piloting new products to complement core business, under direction of co-founder and CPO Joe Gebbia. Launched Mobile Guidebooks, Experience Marketplace, Guest Trip Mementos, Pocket Concierge, and created strategy for Dynamic Trip Platform. Made significant progress developing entrepreneurial products before team was dissolved to sharpen focus on improving core experiences.
Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.