# Dan Hesse

> Dan Hesse is a seed investor in Kansas City backing Water and Railroad. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Kansas City, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danhesse
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DanHesseNews
- Website: https://danhesse.com/

Dan Hesse is a seed investor in Kansas City focused on Water and Railroad. Dan Hesse currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), where he serves as chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee, and PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) where he chairs the Technology Subcommittee.Dan served as President and CEO of Sprint Corporation from December 2007 toAugust 2014. Previously, Hesse was the Chairman and CEO of Embarq Corporation, Chairman, President and CEO of Terabeam Corporation, and he spent 23 years at AT&T, where from 1997 - 2000, he served as the President and CEO of AT&T Wireless Services, at the time the United States' largest wireless carrier.He received a BA from Notre Dame, an MBA from Cornell, and an MS from MIT where he was awarded the Brooks Thesis Prize. He holds a Carnegie Mellon University/NACD CERT certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight.In addition to receiving Corporate Responsibility magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, he has been named "Most Influential Person in Mobile Technology" by LAPTOP magazine (Steve Jobs was #2), Wireless Industry "Person of the Year" by RCR magazine, "Executive of the Year" by Wireless Business and Technology magazine, "CEO of the Year" by the National Eagle Leadership Institute, “Kansas City’s Best CEO” in a readership poll by Ingram’s Magazine, one of the five "Best Turnaround CEO's of All Time" by Fierce Wireless, one of "10 Inspirational Leaders who Turned Around Their Companies" by Entrepreneur magazine, and he has twice received Wireless Week magazine's Leadership Award. Glassdoor regularly named Hesse one of America’s highest rated CEO's by employees. He serves on the National Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and on the board of directors of the JUST Capital Foundation.The 2014 American Customer Satisfaction Index recognized Sprint as the most improved U.S. company in overall customer satisfaction, across all 43 industries, over the previous six years. During Dan’s years at Sprint, the company was recognized 20 times by J.D. Power and Associates for excellence in customer service, and the Reputation Institute recognized Sprint as the most improved company in overall corporate reputation among all of the 1000 largest global public companies it evaluates. For his last two full calendar years as CEO, Sprint’s Total Shareholder Return, assuming reinvested dividends, ranked #1 among all S&P 500 companies (Netflix was #2).

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Water | 1 | 100% |
| Railroad | 1 | 100% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 100% |
| Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |
| Transportation | 1 | 100% |

8 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xaptum | Xaptum’s mission is to simplify IoT security. Forever. Existing IoT solutions are fragmented and difficult to secure, implement, and manage - hindering adoption of IoT. Our multi-tenant, future-proof network as a service is a key enabling technology for enterprises to seamlessly scale and secure IoT deployments. Through any last mile provider,customers can connect their IoT devices to their own secure, logical, middle-mile network that keeps the devices and their data invisible to the public Internet. Pain points in provisioning and managing the IoT devices are addressed through zero-touch identity and key management to allow enterprises to securely scale deployments. Ultimately, our simplified architecture brings visibility, control, and flexibility to IoT. | $2.2M | Seed | Apr 21, 2016 | https://www.xaptum.com/ |

1 of 1 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Hesse invest in?

Dan Hesse invests primarily in Water, Railroad and Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Dan Hesse last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Hesse closed in Apr 2016. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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