# Danielle Strachman

> Danielle Strachman is a seed investor at 1517 Fund backing SaaS and Financial Services. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellestrachman
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DStrachman
- Website: https://x.com/DStrachman

Danielle Strachman is a seed investor at 1517 Fund in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Financial Services. Danielle Strachman (General Partner) - In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lead the design and operations. She is the visionary behind the Thiel Summit series that has been attended by some 2000 young entrepreneurs. Previous to her work with Peter Thiel, Danielle founded and directed Innovations Academy in SanDiego, a K-8 charter school serving 350 students, with a focus on student- led project based learning and other alternative programs.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 14% |
| B2B | 1 | 7% |
| Energy | 1 | 7% |
| Rental | 1 | 7% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 43% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Mexico | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cents | Cents helps laundromats and garment care businesses manage operations, payments, and customer interactions. Its system includes point-of-sale tools, digital payment processing, and business management features that support order tracking and reporting. The platform also offers customer-facing applications for scheduling services, placing orders,and making payments. Cents integrates hardware and software components to support both self-service and full-service laundry operations. It enables business owners to monitor performance, manage workflows, and handle transactions within a single system. | $40M | Series B | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Marathon Fusion | Marathon Fusion designs, engineers and scales next-generation technologies to enable the deployment of fusion power plants. | $5.9M | Seed | Jul 18, 2024 |  |
| JobPixel | JobPixel is a web-based video hiring experience that is revolutionizing how businesses find, evaluate, and hire the best candidates. The company's platform manages every step of the hiring process through a web-based intuitive user interface, allowing companies and recruiters to reduce time to hire and go beyond the traditional resume bygetting to know the candidates better through video. The company was co-founded in 2020 by Anthony Duerr and Omar Khateeb. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Frenter | Frenter is an all-in-one platform providing a comprehensive technical infrastructure for the rental industry. With Frenter, rental businesses have access to a suite of tools that allow them to make data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and have real-time insights into their business. Companies can use Frenter to monitor their equipment in real timein even the most remote areas, using cellular and satellite GPS, and receive real-time data on equipment usage and health. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 23, 2023 |  |
| Frenter | Frenter is an all-in-one platform providing a comprehensive technical infrastructure for the rental industry. With Frenter, rental businesses have access to a suite of tools that allow them to make data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and have real-time insights into their business. Companies can use Frenter to monitor their equipment in real timein even the most remote areas, using cellular and satellite GPS, and receive real-time data on equipment usage and health. |  | Seed | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Frenter | Frenter is an all-in-one platform providing a comprehensive technical infrastructure for the rental industry. With Frenter, rental businesses have access to a suite of tools that allow them to make data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and have real-time insights into their business. Companies can use Frenter to monitor their equipment in real timein even the most remote areas, using cellular and satellite GPS, and receive real-time data on equipment usage and health. | $1M | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |
| Holacasa | Holacasa helps real estate brokers with a end-end mortgage solutions to offers the customers, having instant quote, pre-qualify and apply to their mortgage fast and simple with a white-label solution, and Real Estate companies to have dashboards, real time status and a raking of their potential leads. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Presso | Presso offers distributed micro-retail solution for ultra-fast dry-cleaning. | $8M | Seed | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| Frenter | Frenter is an all-in-one platform providing a comprehensive technical infrastructure for the rental industry. With Frenter, rental businesses have access to a suite of tools that allow them to make data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and have real-time insights into their business. Companies can use Frenter to monitor their equipment in real timein even the most remote areas, using cellular and satellite GPS, and receive real-time data on equipment usage and health. | $100K | Angel | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Presso | Presso offers distributed micro-retail solution for ultra-fast dry-cleaning. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 16, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LOI Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loi-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LAUNCH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Outbound Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outbound-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About 1517 Fund

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

1517 supports teams with pre-seed and seed funding for technology startups. Their focus is on makers, hackers, and scientists interested in working outside tracked institutions because we believe that the path geared towards higher education is not for all. They motivate people to work on what they’re passionate about, to learn by doing, and tocreate new technologies.

5 contacts available at 1517 Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nick Arnett | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-arnett |
| Danielle Strachman | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danielle-strachman |
| Michael Gibson | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-gibson-4 |
| Shayanne Wright | Scholar in Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shayanne-wright |
| Zachary Slayback | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zachary-slayback |

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## FAQ

### What does Danielle Strachman invest in?

Danielle Strachman invests primarily in SaaS, Financial Services and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Danielle Strachman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Danielle Strachman closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 14 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?

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