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Daniel Breyer

Founder of Flare

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Daniel Breyer is a Partner at Breyer Capital and Co-Founder of Flare, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in investing and entrepreneurship, he has played key roles in founding and managing various companies, including Breyer Labs, and has made strategic investments in notable organizations like Grammarly, Headspace Inc., and Epic Games.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2014 - Current

    Breyer Capital is a global venture capital firm focused on catalyzing high-impact social and for-profit entrepreneurs. Successful investments include Facebook, Etsy, Spotify, Legendary, Niantic, Circle, Grammarly, EPIC Games, Marvel Entertainment, Datalogix, etc. We have an unparalleled network in the US, APAC, EMEA and Africa – spanning from start-ups to major enterprises.

  • Co-Founder

    2021

    The all-in-one app for group communication. https://www.theflareapp.com/

  • Managing Partner & Co-Founder

    2016

    Breyer Labs started as a bootstrapped cryptocurrency, frontier markets, and climate seed-stage fund. We back technical teams pursuing novel and out-of-the-box opportunities. We thematically invest in multidisciplinary teams determined to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Breyer Labs and Breyer Capital share an ecosystem of early-stage startups, fast-growing companies, and established global corporations

Breyer Labs we back technical teams pursuing novel and out-of-the-box opportunities. We thematically invest in multidisciplinary

  • Investor

    2017

    Great Writing, Simplified.

Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity.

Raised $400,000,000.00 from Baillie Gifford and BlackRock.

  • Investor

    2015

    Meditation made simple.

Headspace specializes in providing mental healthcare, including coaching therapy and psychiatry, as well as meditation mindfulness tools.

Raised $320,853,477.00 from Oxford Finance LLC.

  • Investor

    2016

    Invest, bank, and save, all on one simple app.

Stash develops a personal finance application to combine banking, investing, and advice into one platform.

Raised $519,972,000.00 from T. Rowe Price, Union Square Ventures and Goodwater Capital.

  • Investor

    2018

    Making epic games (like Fortnite).

Epic Games is an interactive entertainment company that develops games and offers its game engine technology to other developers.

Raised $7,860,000,000.00 from IPOSharks, BCS Capital, E1 Ventures, Stableton Financial, Bracket Capital and Christian Edler.

  • Investor

    2018

    Augmented reality games and apps.

Niantic develops reality platforms that focus on mapping and security for current and future AR hardware generations.

Raised $770,000,000.00 from ID8 Investments, Pure Imagination Brands and Coatue.

  • Investor

    2020

    Your personal safety network.

Citizen is a mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and real-time incident updates.

Raised $133,000,000.00 from northstar.vc, Breyer Capital and Bossanova Investimentos.

  • Investor

    2017

    Allowing humans to control computers using their brains. Acquired by Facebook.

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