Overview

Gender

male

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed

Dan von Kohorn is a Managing Partner at Broom Ventures. He has worked in software development and investment management since 1997, and has been investing in early stage companies since 2006. He has founded companies or been part of founding teams 14 times, and helped over 30 others. He focuses on investment management and creative applications of software, protocols, and machine learning.

Prior to Broom, Dan was a Partner at Wolfram Ventures and Beta Fund. He was a software developer for 9 years at a hedge fund, including 8 years as portfolio manager of a computational commodity fund. Dan began his career in the Applied Research Group at JP Morgan Investments, was Director of Research at Winged Keel Asset Management, co-founded Beacon Angels (where he chaired the screening committee for 7 years), was an early CTO at Firecracker (with Fathom Partner Ben), and co-founded Rhombus (with Fathom Partners Doug and Jeff). He was also the founding chairperson of the Trusted Execution Task Force for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. He currently serves as an outside Director of Technology Investments at Mediatech Capital Partners, as Vice Chair of the Memorial Drive Investment Fund, and on the Board of Invoke.com.

Dan received his A.B. in Economics and Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University.