# Dan Von Kohorn

> Dan Von Kohorn is a pre-seed investor at Broom Ventures backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Broom Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fathom-ventures)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vonkohorn
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/danvk
- Website: http://vonkohorn.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vonkohorn

Dan von Kohorn is a Managing Partner at Broom Ventures. He has worked in software development and investment management since 1997, and has been investing in early stage companies since 2006. He has founded companies or been part of founding teams 14 times, and helped over 30 others. He focuses on investment management and creative applicationsof software, protocols, and machine learning. Prior to Broom, Dan was a Partner at Wolfram Ventures and Beta Fund. He was a software developer for 9 years at a hedge fund, including 8 years as portfolio manager of a computational commodity fund. Dan began his career in the Applied Research Group at JP Morgan Investments, was Director of Research at Winged Keel Asset Management, co-founded Beacon Angels (where he chaired the screening committee for 7 years), was an early CTO at Firecracker (with Fathom Partner Ben), and co-founded Rhombus (with Fathom Partners Doug and Jeff). He was also the founding chairperson of the Trusted Execution Task Force for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. He currently serves as an outside Director of Technology Investments at Mediatech Capital Partners, as Vice Chair of the Memorial Drive Investment Fund, and on the Board of Invoke.com.Dan received his A.B. in Economics and Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spare8 | Spare8 is building the entire financial inclusion stack for all, through Gold. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Jul 29, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2am VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2-am-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Incisive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/incisive-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MAGIC Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magic-carpet) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Varanium Capital Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/varanium-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Broom Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Broom Ventures invests early and sweeps the floors.

2 contacts available at Broom Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Von Kohorn | Founder, Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-von-kohorn |
| Jeff Rosen | Founder, Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-rosen-6378 |

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Von Kohorn invest in?

Dan Von Kohorn invests primarily in FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dan Von Kohorn last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Von Kohorn closed in Jul 2022. 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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