Daniel Breyer
Founder of Flare
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.