Dan Von Kohorn
Managing Partner at Broom Ventures
Dan Von Kohorn
Managing Partner at Broom Ventures
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, Managing Partner
2019 - Current
Investing in extraordinary pre-seed and seed-stage founders. http://broom.ventures
Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors.
Principal
2011
Small early-stage angel fund focused on emerging technologies.
Beta Fund is an early-stage venture fund focused on emerging high-tech and biotechnology companies.
Vice Chair
2013
Independent Director
2002
Strategic and financial advisory, M&A for software, information services, media, AI applications, and network device companies.
Vice President
2001 - 2002
M&A for software, media, and AI companies. Negotiated advisory engagement with the firm's first public client. Advised on USA Technologies (OTC Bulletin Board: USTT) acquisition of Stitch Networks Corp. Advised on restructuring of Tocovite Pty Ltd into Vital Biosciences Inc. and Vital Health Science Inc. Assisted with 60+ other projects in various stages of due diligence, investment consideration, or deals. Identified and recruited new CEO of Vital Biosciences Inc.
Enterprise Solutions
2021 - 2022
Chainlink has become the Industry standard data infrastructure for blockchains. Over $9 trillion in transactions enabled. https://chain.link
Chainlink Labs provides open-source blockchain oracle solutions and specializes in the development and integration of chainlink.
Raised $32,000,000.00 from Nirvana Capital.
Board of Directors
2014 - 2022
Board member of Invoke Solutions. Acquired by to MarketCast (https://marketcast.com), Jan 2022.
Invoke Solutions offers real-time online research services that provide efficient, usable insights for their clients.
Raised $18,550,000.00 from BEV Capital, BRM Capital, North Atlantic Capital, Bain Capital, North Atlantic Capital, BEV Capital, BRM Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.
Chair, Board Of Directors
2019 - 2021
- Delivering objective financial truths through Al - Acquired v2 Ratings.
Founder, Board of Directors
2017 - 2021
- Rhombus is a data oracle for decentralized applications, connecting smart contracts with real-world data. Accurate, computable, dependable, secure oracles. - Founding Chairperson of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's Oracle Working Group - Contributor to the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Off-Chain Trusted Compute Specification - Acquired by Chainlink (http://chain.link)
Advisor
2018 - 2019
- Cofounder, Rhombus - Founding Chair of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's Oracle Working Group - Contributor to the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Off-Chain Trusted Compute Specification
ConsenSys builds Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications ranging from developer tools to enterprise solutions.
Raised $725,000,000.00 from Raison Wealth and Axevil Capital.
President, CEO
2016 - 2018
Education
A.B.
1993 - 1997