Daniel Hoffer

Dan Hoffer has experience as a General Partner at seed fund Speedinvest, as a Partner at seed fund Tandem Capital (where 2 of his portfolio companies were acquired), as a Managing Director at early stage fund Autotech Ventures where 6 of his companies exited (3 IPOs + 3 acquisitions), and as a former Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital.

He also has entrepreneurial experience as co-founder and CEO of CouchSurfing (a global travel website with more than 25 million members), and as the founder of The Marketplace Conference—the leading global conference for marketplace investing and management. He also has operational expertise from executive product roles at Norton (Symantec) and TripIt (Concur/SAP).

Dan has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and been featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, as well as on ABC Nightline, NBC News, National Public Radio, and in the New York Times and TIME magazine. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School.