Daniel Docter
Managing Director @ Dell Technologies Capital
Palo Alto, United States
Daniel Docter is a Series A investor at Dell Technologies Capital in Palo Alto focused on Software and Analytics. Daniel Docter is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads investments for Pivotal, Virtustream, and the Dell-EMC Enterprise Hybrid and Cloud Native Solutions Group. Daniel’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments in AI and ML/DL, big/fast data and data analytics, cloud management andorchestration, CI/CD, and serverless architecture.Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Daniel was Director at Intel Capital where he led investment initiatives in Cloud (Open Data Center), Software Defined Networking, Data Center Services, and High Performance Computing. His investments covered services, infrastructure, management software, compute and storage systems, and ICs and include Switch SuperNap, Tier 3 (acquired by CenturyLink), Passave (acquired by PMCS), E2O Communications (acquired by JDSU), Cyoptics (acquired by Avago), Stratalight Communications (acquired by Opnext), Cortina Systems (acquired by InPhi), Overture Networks (acquired by Adva), Fulcrum Microsystems (acquired by Intel), Adaptivity (acquired by EMC), Virident (acquired by Western Digital), and Aspeed (IPO on Taiwan Stock Exchange). Dan also played a key role in several Intel acquisitions, including Fulcrum, New Focus tunable laser group, Stratos LW transceiver group) and the sale of the Optical Products Group to Emcore.Before Intel Capital, Daniel was with Merrill Lynch as an adviser for technology company clients involved in IPOs and M&A transactions. Before Merrill Lynch, Daniel spent 11 years at AT&T Bell Labs and Hughes Research Labs working on optical and RF communications applications. He has more than 50 journal publications and 10 patents.Daniel holds a PhD from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is based in Palo Alto, California.Daniel represents Dell Technologies Capital on the board of directors of the following companies: BlueData, MongoDB, Cloud66, Packet Host, GraphCore, Redis Labs, Iguazio Systems, and Striim.
- Total investments:
- 42
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
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Industries Daniel Docter invests in
Stages Daniel Docter invests in
Countries Daniel Docter invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (26%)
- Analytics 6 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (14%)
- SaaS 5 (12%)
- Information Technology 5 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (26%)
- Series B 7 (17%)
- Series C 6 (14%)
- Series D 4 (10%)
- Series E 4 (10%)
Country
- United States 15 (36%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
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| Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks. | $25M / Series D / Jul 24, 2026 | ||
| SiMa.ai™ is a machine learning company transforming the embedded edge market through high-performance compute at the lowest power. Initially focused on computer vision applications, the company’s software-first approach simplifies ML integration and supports the broadest set of capabilities through a purpose-built MLSoC™ platform, enabling rapidadoption and creating the best of ease-of-use experience. SiMa.ai is led by technologists and business veterans and backed by a set of top investors committed to helping customers scale machine learning at the edge. | $70M / Series C / Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| SiLC Technologies is a Silicon Photonics start up focusing on photonic Sensor and 3D imaging applications. It develops new and novel technologies and integrated solutions to address the growing needs of an autonomous and smart new world. | $25M / Series A / Nov 15, 2023 | ||
| Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks. | $70M / Series C / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| SiMa.ai™ is a machine learning company transforming the embedded edge market through high-performance compute at the lowest power. Initially focused on computer vision applications, the company’s software-first approach simplifies ML integration and supports the broadest set of capabilities through a purpose-built MLSoC™ platform, enabling rapidadoption and creating the best of ease-of-use experience. SiMa.ai is led by technologists and business veterans and backed by a set of top investors committed to helping customers scale machine learning at the edge. | $37M / Series B / Oct 26, 2022 | ||
| Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks. | $25M / Series B / Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| Immuta provides a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance, ensuring each user who queries data sees only the data they’re supposed to see, for their approved purpose or role. The platform aims to create trust across data engineering, security, legal, compliance, andbusiness teams so they can work together to ensure timely access to critical data with minimal risk while adhering to global data privacy regulations including the GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. | $100M / Series E / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| Jarvis ML’s mission is to be the most accessible and easy to use end-to-end machine learning platform. As a fully managed MLaaS solution, Jarvis ML enables companies to deploy a revenue generating intelligence engine to their businesses and products within minutes. Jarvis ML was founded in 2021 by Rakesh Yadav, who led the Machine LearningOperations platform development for Google Ads and Payments. Jarvis ML's team has more than 50+ years of combined machine learning experience and is funded by Dell Technologies Capital, SHAKTI and more than a dozen veteran Silicon Valley technologists and business leaders. | $16M / Seed / Apr 21, 2022 | ||
| Bodo.ai is an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics, scaling past 10,000 cores and petabytes of data with unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. Leveraging unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, Bodo is helping F500 customers solve some of the world’s most massive data analysisproblems. And doing so in a fraction of traditional time, complexity, and cost, all while leveraging the simplicity and flexibility of native Python. Developers can deploy Bodo on any infrastructure, from a laptop to a public cloud. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh, PA, the team of passionate technologists aims to radically accelerate the world of data analytics. http://bodo.ai #LetsBodo | $14M / Series A / Aug 25, 2021 | ||
| Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks. | $12M / Series A / Aug 01, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
Dell Technologies Capital is the investment arm for Dell Technologies. We’ve invested in over 100 companies that push the envelope on digital technology for enterprises and consumers. We are a team of world-class investors who help our companies succeed. We focus on early-stage investments with passionate founders. Our companies gain uniqueaccess to the go-to-market capabilities of Dell Technologies. For more information visit www.delltechcapital.com
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Daniel Docter
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Daniel Docter invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 42 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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