Daniel Schultz
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Gotham Ventures
Daniel Schultz is a Series A investor at Gotham Ventures focused on Finance and News. Danny is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Gotham Ventures and enjoys working closely with entrepreneurs to help them achieve their vision. Over the last two decades he has been actively involved with technology companies from startups to public companies in media, ecommerce, mobile and enterprise software.Danny ran Lehman Brothers equityprivate placement business just prior to co-founding his own start-up, Atlantic Venture Partners, the predecessor to DFJ Gotham and now Gotham Ventures. He began investing as an angel and was fortunate to get very early exposure to the Israeli tech scene going back to the mid-1980s.Danny is attracted to creative and energetic entrepreneurs that seek to disrupt the status quo and loves to see entrepreneurs succeed. His investing is focused on e-commerce, digital media, fintech, mobile and the enterprise. Currently, he is responsible for Gotham’s investments in Yipit and Pickie – e-commerce companies that also thrive on data, an area Danny loves.Danny has led a number of Gotham’s successful investments including XOsoft, acquired by CA, and Pivot, acquired by the CME Group. He was also responsible for Gotham’s investment in Massive through its successful acquisition by Microsoft. His personal investments have included SMARTS, acquired by EMC; Insulair, acquired by Georgia Pacific; Active Impulse Systems, acquired by Phillips; and PassLogix, acquired by Oracle.Danny also enjoys mentoring young VCs and entrepreneurs. He is active with the Kauffman Fellows Program and Endeavor Global and was Co-chair of INGENUITY 2012, New York’s premier startup venture conference.Danny is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in Economics. He and his family reside in Westchester, New York. In his spare time, he can frequently be found somewhere in Westchester playing hockey, or in nicer weather training for his next triathlon.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Finance 2 (33%)
- News 1 (17%)
- Music 1 (17%)
- Video 1 (17%)
- FinTech 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (67%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Debt Financing 1 (17%)
Investments
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| LendKey is a financial technology company that creates white-labeled lending solutions that transform financial institutions into profitable digital lending businesses. The company manages the entire lending process, which includes: demand generation, online decisioning, loan origination, customer service and balance sheet management. Based in NewYork and Cincinnati, the company was founded in 2009. | $8M / Series C / Jul 20, 2017 | ||
| LendKey is a financial technology company that creates white-labeled lending solutions that transform financial institutions into profitable digital lending businesses. The company manages the entire lending process, which includes: demand generation, online decisioning, loan origination, customer service and balance sheet management. Based in NewYork and Cincinnati, the company was founded in 2009. | $12.5M / Series B / Aug 07, 2013 | ||
| DailyWorth is the leading multi-platform financial media company for women who want more – more net worth, more self worth, and ultimately, more joy. | $1M / Series A / Apr 22, 2013 | ||
| YipitData is a market research firm that provides detailed insights and reports based on alternative data. YipitData collects and analyzes alternative data from various sources to provide actionable insights. This data can include credit card transactions, web scraping data, app usage, and more. The company offers custom reports tailored tospecific business needs, helping clients make informed decisions based on real-time data. The data helps businesses and analysts identify emerging market trends, consumer behavior, and industry shifts. | $1.3M / Series A / Jun 30, 2010 | ||
| LendKey is a financial technology company that creates white-labeled lending solutions that transform financial institutions into profitable digital lending businesses. The company manages the entire lending process, which includes: demand generation, online decisioning, loan origination, customer service and balance sheet management. Based in NewYork and Cincinnati, the company was founded in 2009. | $1.2M / Debt Financing / Aug 27, 2009 | ||
| Panvidea, Inc. engages in the on-demand video preparation, processing, and distribution of entertainment and advertising content on various digital platforms. It offers on-demand video encoding and processing solution that allows professional content owners, broadcasters, publishers, and advertising agencies to ingest, view, edit, brand, transcode,and package professional media content for digital network. The company also provides physical media digitization and ingestion, import, and technical consulting services. Its file-base on-demand technologies are applied to enhance and automate various digital media workflows, including content encoding and repurposing; multi-platform delivery; video aggregation, processing, and distribution; and content personalization, localization, and globalization. The company provides its solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for various audiences, and supply content as digital products to various platforms or devices. Panvidea, Inc. was formerly known as mPOINT. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | Series A |
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About Gotham Ventures
Gotham Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. We work with the visionaries of today to create the successes of tomorrow. We invest in early-stage information technology startups based in our backyard. We are proud to be an active partner, leveraging our expertise and relationships to provide substantial value to our portfoliocompanies.
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Ross Goldstein
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What does Daniel Schultz invest in?
Daniel Schultz invests primarily in Finance, News and Music startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 6 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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