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We’re Still Building Disqus
Talks about online forums, Disqus and online communities
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Daniel Ha
Investor at Antigravity
San Francisco, California
Overview
Daniel Ha is a Startup Investor at Antigravity Capital, with a track record of investing in early-stage companies like Shopgenie, Browse AI, Atom Limbs, and Queenly. He has also served as CEO and Cofounder of Disqus, Inc., demonstrating his entrepreneurial skills and strategic leadership in the tech industry.
Daniel Ha's career highlights include his role as a Managing Partner at Antigravity Capital and his experience as a Senior Advisor at Grishin Robotics, showcasing his expertise in strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, and product management within the San Francisco Bay Area startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2022 - Current
https://antigravity.capital A new seed fund by me and Gadi Borovich. Our mission is to back an emerging generation of software startups that are harnessing the power of AI to supercharge how they enter markets and grow. We are not an AI-centric fund; instead, we believe that the best new software companies will be uniquely adept at leveraging AI tools across the entire business, from product development to operations. We have a true-seed stage focus, investing in early software product startups and obsessively helping them in their pursuit of product-market fit.
#KIN Member
2022
#KIN is an invite-only and highly-selective community of distinguished senior operators and accomplished entrepreneurs. #KIN’s primary focus is to build and scale entrepreneurial ecosystems globally. #KIN is created by Chamaeleon, an early-stage VC firm.
early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley investing globally
Angel Investor
2017
I like startups, the internet, and software. Sometimes I'll write a small check in exchange for the chance to briefly live vicariously through some amazing builders. Angel investor in a couple dozen startups, mostly software and internet stuff.
Senior Advisor
2020
Partner & Lead Mentor
2020 - 2023
We invest in early stage startups and offer mentorship through a lightweight accelerator program.
Tinkerer
2018 - 2021
Startup exploration.
CEO, Cofounder
2007 - 2018
Cofounded Disqus and was CEO through its acquisition at the end of 2017. Disqus is the #1 audience platform on the open web and (I'm pretty sure) has one of the largest audiences on the Internet, reaching 2 billion uniques every month. Backed by Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, North Bridge Venture Partners, Iris Capital, and more. Started Disqus as a passion project to think about the future of online communities and their impact on media. Initially worked on frontend development, product design, business development, and strategy. Since then we've grown into a company of great creators, and I get to work with some of the best online publishers, marketers, developers, and designers to evolve Disqus into the most popular way that people discuss content across the open web. Through Disqus, I also have the opportunity to spend a lot of time writing and speaking about digital media, online publishing, consumer products, and startups. The latest interviews about Disqus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55kb3vMyqI http://www.hackers.media/home/2017/2/3/disqus-daniel-ha-interview
Disqus is a blog comment hosting service offering a platform for social integration, social networking, user profiles, analytics and more.
Raised $10,500,000.00 from North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity and Union Square Ventures.
Engineering Lab
2005 - 2006
It’s a UNIX system... I know this
Engineering
2006 - 2006
Worked as an engineering intern at this (at the time) small, but exciting, company. I'd like to think that my summer internship helped steer them in the right direction.
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
Education
Dropout
2004 - 2007