# Daniel Liem

> Daniel Liem is a seed investor at Linear backing Software and Cyber Security. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Linear
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcliem
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/damndanielliem
- Website: https://danielcliem.com

Daniel Liem is a seed investor at Linear in Washington focused on Software and Cyber Security. Future of work & SaaS: productivity tools, infra / devOps, AI, vertical SaaS

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Security | 1 | 25% |
| Open Source | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Germany | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Strix | Strix is an open-source AI security platform that uses autonomous agents to continuously pentest applications, APIs, and codebases. | $6.7M | Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Jericho Security | Jericho Security is protect the world from the emerging dangers of generative AI cyberattacks. Jericho Security created proprietary generative AI, cyberGPT, to simulate attacks, create new defenses and educate to prevent serious losses from cyberattacks. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| LaunchNotes | LaunchNotes is the personalized, automated, and secure way to connect their teams and users to their product development lifecycle. The company enables entire organizations to move at the same speed as their dev teams, no matter how fast those teams may be shipping software. It provides the right updates to the right people at the right time sothat no one, internally or externally, is ever surprised by product changes. | $15M | Series A | May 20, 2022 |  |
| n8n | n8n is a free and open node-based Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and used with third party web applications or custom in-house tools to automate repetitive tasks. With n8n, for the first time, people can move beyond simple integrations to build multi-step workflows that combine both 3rd party APIs and your owninternal tools to create easy to use automations that snap together all the pieces of what would otherwise be very complex, disconnected systems. n8n is headquartered in Berlin and was founded by Jan Oberhauser in 2019. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 12, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1984 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1984-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [a16z Scout Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-scout-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Activant Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/activant-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atlassian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlassian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Linear

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.

5 contacts available at Linear.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Casey Bertenthal | Head Of Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/casey-bertenthal |
| Cristina Cordova | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-cordova |
| Daniel Liem | Investor | — |
| Erin Frey | Customer Experience | — |
| James Smith | Investor | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel Liem invest in?

Daniel Liem invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Daniel Liem?

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### When did Daniel Liem last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Liem closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 4 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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