# Daniel Kan

> Daniel Kan is a seed investor at Fifth Door backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fifth Door](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifth-door)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielkan
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/danielkan
- Website: https://x.com/danielkan
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dkan09

Daniel Kan is a seed investor at Fifth Door in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Kan is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Cruise. He attended Claremont McKenna College.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |
| Consumer Goods | 2 | 17% |
| Pet | 1 | 8% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| Greece | 1 | 8% |
| Colombia | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| atla | Atlas helps in assists legal practitioners in searching through millions of texts and then using machine learning to extract crucial information from each source. | $5M | Seed | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| Outset | AI-powered user research | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| Delian Alliance Industries | Lambda Automata builds autonomous systems tailored for addressing national security challenges in the EU and its allies. | $6.3M | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Superorder | Superorder provides restaurants the resources they need to increase income from delivery and takeaway with virtual brands through an all-in-one software platform. | $10M | Series A | Sep 15, 2023 |  |
| JustPaid | JustPaid is a financial platform that helps startups control their spending and gives them financial oversight. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Evil Genius Games | Evil Genius Games is the developer and publisher of Everyday Heroes™—the newest, modern-day, d20 Modern, 5th edition compatible tabletop roleplaying system for a wide range of officially licensed movie franchise campaigns. Designed by some of d20’s original design team and based on the open-source version of the D&D 5th edition ruleset, theEveryday Heroes collection of movie games and systems is made to delight d20 and genre film franchise fans everywhere.Made up of film geeks who also love playing Dungeons & Dragons, the Evil Genius Games team blends game design expertise and modern innovation to broaden how gaming fans of all ages and experiences can engage in exciting, meaningful tabletop roleplaying adventures—all built around the core Everyday Heroes™ rulebook for ease of play.The world of Everyday Heroes takes players into officially licensed, popular film franchise settings such as The Crow, Rambo, Total Recall, Escape from New York, and others for an infinite number of campaign adventures. Flexible and innovative, each Cinematic Adventure in the Everyday Heroes world can be adapted for home campaigns with characters created by players from scratch, as well as adventures inspired by the film that put characters into the shoes of well-known Hollywood heroes. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Fathom | An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar. | $4.7M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Maker Wine | Maker is a wine marketplace featuring premium wines in innovative formats, so you can bring it and drink it anywhere. Maker Wine was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Marin, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Albedo | Albedo is the full-stack VLEO company. We deliver exquisite performance with resilient, agile architectures at a fraction of traditional costs. Our Precision platform supports a variety of mission types - just bring your payload. Clarity-1 is flying in VLEO today. | $10M | Seed | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| Aquarium | Aquarium Learning is an ML data management platform that helps to improve models by improving datasets. The company was founded in 202 and based in San Francisco, California. | $2.6M | Seed | Feb 24, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hardwareclub) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rebel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebel-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Fifth Door

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Fifth Door is a next-generation game platform that enables you to bring your game online in just minutes.

1 contacts available at Fifth Door.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Kan | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-kan |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel Kan invest in?

Daniel Kan invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Daniel Kan's check size?

Daniel Kan typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Daniel Kan participates in.

### When did Daniel Kan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Kan closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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