Danal
VC Fund
San Jose, United States
Danal is a VC fund in San Jose focused on SaaS and Software. Danal, Inc. is a subsidiary of Danal Corp of Korea. Danal’s Mobile solutions platform offers financial institutions and major retailers groundbreaking mobile transaction risk management services, and streamlined, customer conversion solutions that lower customer abandon rates during registration and checkout. Danal in the US is headquartered inSan Jose, California. Its majority shareholder, Danal Co., Ltd (Seoul, South Korea), pioneered Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) technology in Korea, Taiwan and China in 2000. An additional shareholder, Morgenthaler Ventures, also participated in Danal’s $9.5 million Series A investment in 2007. After announcing its first direct carrier payment connection with Verizon wireless in 2010, Danal Co. purchased additional equity in Danal to take a majority ownership position. In March 2012, Danal entered a marketing agreement with Discover to enable the two companies to drive market-leading innovation and value in a rapidly-evolving Omni Commerce [across online, mobile, and retail channels] marketplace. Danal Inc. was acquired by Bango in May 2016.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Danal invests in
Stages Danal invests in
Countries Danal invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (43%)
- Software 3 (43%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (43%)
- B2B 2 (29%)
- Machine Learning 2 (29%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (29%)
- Series B 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Country
- South Korea 4 (57%)
- United States 1 (14%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Abhishek Tiwari
VP, Product and Operations
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VP, Product and Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Atreedev Banerjee
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jim Greenwell
President & CEO
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President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Vijay Reddy Jallu
VP of Engineering
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VP of Engineering | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Superblock
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Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core. | $6.8M / Series B / Dec 12, 2025 | |
Coxwave Align
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Coxwave, founded in 2021, is a leader in analytics for the generative AI industry. Leveraging state-of-the-art data infrastructure and domain expertise, our team operates Align AI, powering analytics for conversational AI products. Coxwave successfully raised a $3.5M seed round led by KB Investment to double down on efforts to support global AIbuilders and increase R&D in new analytics technology.Align AI is a next-generation product analytics tool for LLM-powered conversational AI products. Leveraging Align AI’s cutting-edge natural language search and robust analytics infrastructure, product builders can easily analyze conversational data to make informed product decisions. | $3.5M / Seed / Jan 29, 2024 | |
Coxwave
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Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows. | $3.5M / Seed / Jan 29, 2024 | |
PEOPLE & TECHNOLOGY
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PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY provides DX-based AI solutions on INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND SMART SENSING through its INDOORPLUS+ IoT, Location Based System (LBS) and Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, defense, smart cities, and the public sector.More than 100 corporate customers in various business sectorssuch as healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, energy and public services have already chosen PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY to deploy industry grade solutions for employee safety, asset tracking & monitoring, security & access control, flow management and process efficiency. They have gained improvements in productivity and process efficiency while reducing their corporate risks and optimizing their procurement. Since its foundation in 2013, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY has become a leading provider in South Korea and is expanding overseas. | $4.2M / Series B / Nov 01, 2022 | |
VegaX Holdings
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VegaX Holdings (VegaX) is a cryptocurrency index platform providing actionable cryptocurrency indexes and index-based asset management products for traditional investors. Established in 2019, VegaX creates next-generation indexes and financial products that are needed to support the growth of the cryptocurrency industry and improve returns forinvestors worldwide. Headquartered in New York, NY and Seoul, South Korea, VegaX has a globally distributed team passionate about building infrastructure to support the next generation of digital assets. Better indexes, Better Returns - VegaX: https://vegaxholdings.com/ The company was co-founded by Sang Lee and Natasha Bansgopaul in 2019. | $4.6M / Series A / Aug 17, 2022 | |
Manna Corporation
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Manna Corporation is a developer of a delivery service platform for same-day delivery, logistics, and optimising delivery. | $68.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 13, 2021 | |
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B:eat Corp
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B: eat is a retail automation platform intended to run a robot-based cafe. | $8.9M / Series A / Jan 29, 2021 |
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What does Danal invest in?
Danal invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Danal includes Abhishek Tiwari (VP, Product and Operations), Atreedev Banerjee (Chief Operating Officer) and Jim Greenwell (President & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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