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Danel Dayan

Principal at Battery Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Danel Dayan is a Principal at Battery Ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in corporate development at Google and experience as an investment banking analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities. He holds a BSC from Santa Clara University and an International Baccalaureate Certificate from the International School Manila.

Work Experience 

BV

Battery Ventures

  • Principal

    2019 - Current

    Help lead enterprise infrastructure software investments across cloud, developer tools, cybersecurity, data and analytics, and AI/ML. Investments: - Postman - Harness - Matillion - Contrast Security - Machinify - LinearB - Arize AI - Styra - Orkes - Weaviate - Opal Security - Normalyze - Galileo - A few seed deals Exits: - Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT) - JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG) - Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO) - Bionic Security (Acquired by Crowdstrike) - Bridgecrew (Acquired by Palo Alto Networks) - Sensu (Acquired by Sumo Logic) For a full list of Battery’s portfolio companies and exits, please click here: https://www.battery.com/our-companies/list/. The views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer Battery Ventures; furthermore, there is no investment advice intended.

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.

battery.com
G

Google

  • Corporate Development

    2015 - 2019

    Investments | Mergers & Acquisitions | Strategy Led and closed over 20 acquisitions and strategic investments worth $2B+ across Cloud and HW

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.

google.com
AS

Avere Systems

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2018

    Series E Investor Led due diligence, pricing/valuation discussions, and term sheet negotiation Acquired by Microsoft

DB

Deutsche Bank Securities

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2014 - 2015

    Technology Investment Banking

DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.

db.com
P

PwC

  • Transaction Services Associate

    2013 - 2014

    Valuations | Capital Markets & Accounting Advisory

SC

Santa Clara University

  • Media Services

    2010 - 2013

    IT Support and Troubleshooting

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