# Raphael Danilo

> Raphael Danilo is a seed investor at Gong (New York) backing Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gong](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gong-io)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-danilo-481b41b2/

Raphael Danilo is a seed investor at Gong in New York focused on Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. GM @ Gong // GP @ Darkmode Ventures // previously founder & CEO @ Yobs (acquired by Gong).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KeyPlay | Keyplay provides a novel approach to account research to businesses tired of B2B waste and eager to pursue gtm excellence as buyer rigour. | $3M | Seed | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Humanloop | Humanloop develops an AI platform designed to support enterprises in building and maintaining applications powered by large language models. The platform provides tools for prompt management, evaluation, and observability, enabling teams to test, monitor, and improve AI system performance. Humanloop supports collaboration between engineers, productteams, and domain experts to refine AI outputs and ensure reliability. Its tools are used to manage workflows around AI development, helping organizations deploy and optimize AI features with structured evaluation processes. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Koffie Financial | Koffie Labs is a digital insurer purpose-built for the next generation of trucking and transportation. | $3M | Seed | Feb 23, 2021 |  |
| Alectio | The Alectio platform is the first full-stack, end-to-end, ML-driven self-serve DataPrepOps platform® enabling ML teams to prepare, curate, annotate, manage, version and visualize their training data in a few clicks, in near-real-time and quasi-automated manner.Alectio's proprietary technology is based on the fundamental belief that ML modelscan be trained with the same (sometimes better) performance with just a fraction of the data (which means lower labeling, storage and compute costs, and eventually the possibility of training on the edge). Data Scientists wrap their regular model and raw data with the Alectio's SDK and the Alectio curation engine guides the training process strategically so that the model gets trained on the most informative data; they'll never have to spend a minute on data preparation again!We're neither a labeling company nor an MLOps company: we're building a new category providing the entire workflow to prepare data during training which allows ML experts to build models and datasets simultaneously, reducing time to market, and a new training paradigm that will lead orgs to actual AI profitability.Alectio uncovers the smart data inside your big data, unlocking model performance and saving machine learning experts both time and money. | $2.6M | Seed | Feb 04, 2021 |  |
| yearend. | YearEnd operates as a subscription tax platform designed for startup employees' needs. It helps to optimize their equity and taxes in real-time. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| yearend. | YearEnd operates as a subscription tax platform designed for startup employees' needs. It helps to optimize their equity and taxes in real-time. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 16, 2020 |  |
| Sable | Thin file U.S. residents suffer from an uncertain, fragmented, and inefficient path to quality credit and banking options Sable provides -Access to credit building cards, a no fee bank account, and debit card within 5 minutes with no credit history, SSN, or U.S address required -Premium card and brand -Quickest way to build credit with enhancedmulti-point reporting on more data points than any other card -Faster path to unsecured credit by addressing the full path end to end, with gamified graduation to our own Sable unsecured credit credit card -Transparent formula via tangible Sable milestones, guiding our customers along a path to credit building and graduation to unsecured credit | $2.7M | Seed | Feb 27, 2020 |  |
| Commerce.js | Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform for developers and designers to help them make custom eCommerce development simpler and faster. It helps technology to provide services like custom experiences, headless architecture, and eCommerce software integration. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 24, 2020 |  |
| Marigold Health | Marigold Health uses AI-augmented chat support groups to reach and retain patients with behavioral health needs in community-based treatment. Patients receive a personalized wraparound support while care teams see dramatic gains in capacity using patients to engage each other. We partner directly with treatment providers and managed careorganizations in the Medicaid market. | $1M | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 |  |
| Marigold Health | Marigold Health uses AI-augmented chat support groups to reach and retain patients with behavioral health needs in community-based treatment. Patients receive a personalized wraparound support while care teams see dramatic gains in capacity using patients to engage each other. We partner directly with treatment providers and managed careorganizations in the Medicaid market. | $1M |  | Sep 26, 2018 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HappyShiba](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daintree-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elysium Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elysium-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evening Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evening-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Gong

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

5 contacts available at Gong.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Bendov | CEO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-bendov |
| Bridgette Doig | Strategic Account Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridgette-doig |
| Danny Wasserman | Senior Manager, GTM Enablement | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-wasserman |
| Eilon Reshef | Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eilon-reshef |
| Eran Aloni | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eran-aloni |

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## FAQ

### What does Raphael Danilo invest in?

Raphael Danilo invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Raphael Danilo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Raphael Danilo closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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