Founder and Managing Partner of
Focal, mentor at NYU’s Endless Frontier Labs, and Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley business school alum. Daniel is a pioneering Australian venture investor being one that started his journey in Silicon Valley and firmly in the North American market’s pre-Seed stage.
Post his 5 years working in senior operating roles within the Californian tech industry, Daniel founded the San Francisco-based Focal to provide international investors with access to the first financing round of North American start-ups.
LUXEM Ventures is invested in Focal and enjoys the luxury of having Daniel and Focal usher it into the North American market and the significant cross-market insights and opportunities the Focal-LUXEM Ventures dynamic provides.
Daniel and the growing Focal team are building a uniquely positioned and enduring pre-Seed venture firm through perspective and a timely, focussed, and hands-on approach to its portfolio companies.