Daniel Scrivner
Founder of Ligature
Denver, Colorado
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Product Design & Creative Teams
2023 - Current
ClassDojo is a global community of 50M+ teachers and families who come together to share kids’ most important learning moments in school and at home—through photos, videos, messages & more. I lead our cross-functional design and creative teams including product design, copywriting, brand, marketing, video, and illustration. We’re hiring across the board — come join the team: https://www.classdojo.com/jobs/
ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities.
Raised $191,100,000.00 from Five Sigma.
Founder & Partner
2018
In 2018, I founded Ligature: The Design VC with Dan Becker. We're an early and growth stage venture fund. Our investments include Public.com, AtoB, Safara, ZIINA, and Kick. We invest and then help founders build design into the DNA of their company from Day One.
Ligature VC is a venture capital firm.
Advisor
2015
Since 2015, I've been an advisor to Designer Fund across all three of their venture funds. I love working with founders in Designer Fund's portfolio and mentoring design leaders in their network.
Investor Fellow
2020
In 2020, I was accepted into the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) as an investor as part of their global community of 500+ entrepreneurs and investors. It's been an incredible opportunity to invest in and get to know New Zealand's startup community.
CEO in Residence
2019 - 2022
In early 2019, I joined Tiny to lead the turnaround of Flow—a productivity platform used by more than 300,000 people in 140 countries including team at Shopify, Apple, TED, NOLS, Yale, Merck, and Bang & Olufsen. When I arrived, Flow had significant technical and design debt, no clear product direction, and was losing around 5% of its customers every single month. Within 18 months, I helped the company return to completely organic month-over-month growth with a brand new version of the product. • Refocused the company to win on user experience, world-class design, and powerfully simple features. • Shipped a complete reinvention of Flow after nearly 18 months of work. Within 48 hours of launch, we saw over 80% of customers switch to use the new version daily with usage growing to 92% within the first 30 days. • Successfully moved from a discount pricing model to a premium one raising prices nearly 2x—supported by a world-class product. • Rebranded the company, product, plans, and created an entirely new product design system.
Advisor & Managing Partner
2019 - 2022
Stratos is an institution credit and venture fund with over $250M in assets under management.
Stratos invests in the best Defi and Web3 companies.
Design Advisor
2019 - 2020
Design Advisor
2019 - 2020
Turn great ideas into smarter trades.
Raised $4,105,000.00 from Optiver Principal Strategic Investments, Akuna Capital, Miami International Holdings and ViewTrade Securities.
Design Advisor
2018 - 2020
TrustToken is a financial company that provides reinventing financial infrastructure services.
Principal Advisor, Design & Product
2017 - 2020
Founding Designer
2016 - 2017
I partnered with ex-Sequoia partner turned founder Warren Hogarth to define the look, feel, and feature set for Empower before he even incorporated the company. During the 15+ month lead up Empower's launch in the iOS App Store, I led every aspect of the design of the application. After launch, I remained on as an advisor and helped Warren bring on a team of designers to take over—as I made the decision with my wife to move to Colorado and Warren wanted to build an in-office team in San Francisco. I remained on as an advisor for 2+ years helping the team. To date, Empower has raised $174M from Sequoia, Initialized Capital, Icon Ventures, Quiet Capital, and Blisce.