Daniel Schultz
Co-Founder and Managing Director

Danny has worked closely with private early-stage and mature public companies in the communications, media and technology industries for over two decades. He has been active investing in and helping guide several successful entrepreneurial start-ups prior to co-founding Atlantic Venture Partners, the predecessor to DFJ Gotham Ventures.

Danny focuses on investments in financial services, digital media, network infrastructure and mobile technologies. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Pivot Solutions (IM for Wall Street) and Magnolia Broadband (RF smart antenna chipsets) and is a Board Observer with ViVOtech (contactless hardware and software solutions).

Danny led Gotham's successful investment in XOsoft (disaster recovery software) sold to CA in 2006 and was a member of the Board of Massive (in-video game advertising) helping to steer it to a successful acquisition by Microsoft also in 2006. Additionally, he sat on the board of Pantero (data integration middleware) guiding it through its sale to Progress Software and was a board member of SMART System Technologies (contactless payment and CRM platform).

Danny is a member of the High Tech Evaluation Committee of the Yissumtechnology transfer unit of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Yissum.  He is a member of the board of the Venture Industry Association of New York, an advisor to the NYC Seed Investment Fund and is a member of the Israel Venture Association.

Prior to co-founding DFJ Gotham, Danny was a senior banker with Lehman Brothers in the Equity Capital Markets groups in both New York and London focused on technology and emerging growth companies. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the endowment fund of the American Friends of The Hebrew University and is the Assistant Treasurer and a member of the National Board of Governors of AFHU.

Danny is a graduate of Columbia University where he received his bachelor's degree in Economics. He and his family reside in Westchester, New York. Outside of his entrepreneurial, VC and family-related activities, he can frequently be found at roughly 10pm somewhere in Westchester playing ice hockey.