Daniel Hoffer has experience as a General Partner at seed fund Speedinvest, as a Partner at seed fund Tandem Capital (where 2 of his portfolio companies were acquired), as a Managing Director at multi-stage fund Autotech Ventures where 8 of his companies exited (3 IPOs + 5 acquisitions), and as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital.

He also has entrepreneurial experience as co-founder and CEO of CouchSurfing (a global travel website with more than 25 million members), and as the founder/CEO of The Marketplace Conference—the leading global conference for marketplace investing and management. He also served as SVP of Corporate Development at Hayden AI and has operational expertise from executive product roles at Norton (Symantec) and TripIt (Concur/SAP).

Dan has appeared on the cover of Inc. magazine and been featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, as well as on ABC Nightline, NBC News, National Public Radio, and in the New York Times and TIME magazine. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

He is a graduate of Harvard College (class of '99) and Columbia Business School.

My exits from angel investments (with realized returns up to 26x and unrealized returns up to 351x) include Grove Collaborative (NYSE: GROV), SpotHero (acquired by Uber), LoungeBuddy (acquired by American Express), Beanworks (acquired by Quadient), Trucklabs (acquired by Conmet), Willing (acquired by Metlife), Fishbowl (acquired by Glassdoor), Properly (acquired by Compass), and Kanvas (acquired by Verizon); other active angel investments listed below. Achieved additional exits (up to 14x) including multiple IPOs from my institutional investments at Tandem Capital and Autotech Ventures.