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Dan Rosen

Founder & General Partner at Commerce Ventures

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $3,000,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Corporate Development
Private Equity
Mergers
Due Diligence
Strategic Partnerships
Financial Modeling
Valuation
Corporate Finance
Investments
Emerging Markets
Product Management
Investment Banking
Strategy
Alternative Investments
Business Strategy
Business Development
SaaS
Competitive Analysis
Go-to-market Strategy

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & General Partner

    2012

    Commerce Ventures is a sector-focused VC fund, which invests in infrastructure and enablers for the Commerce Continuum: Shop (Retail), Spend (Payments), Save (Banking/Investing), Secure (Insurance). Early CV investments have included Billl.com (BILL), Forter, InAuth (acq’d by Amex), Marqeta (MQ) & MX. In my investing capacity, I am a board member of BillGO, Bloom Credit, Blooom, Inbox Health, Kin and Socure, as well as a board participant at many other portfolio companies. Learn more about our firm at Commerce.vc

  • Advisor to the President & Board

    2016 - 2018

    Participate in ETA Board meetings with a specific focus on helping the organization with its outreach to innovation-centric organizations in Silicon Valley and beyond.

  • Principal

    2006 - 2012

    Focused on investments and portfolio in the mobile, payments, IT and digital marketing-related startups (DailyBreak, Quattro, Optasite, PerkStreet, Picochip, Triad, TriStar, WePay & Zoove).

First Growth Venture Network

2009 - 2009

  • Founding Executive Committee

    2009 - 2009

RSA, The Security Division of EMC

2005 - 2005

  • Corporate Development/Strategy

    2005 - 2005

    Developed strategic plans for growth outside of RSA's core OTP token business.

  • Associate

    2000 - 2004

Reach Incubator

2000 - 2001

  • Senior Analyst

    2000 - 2001

American Management Systems

1999 - 2000

  • Business Analyst

    1999 - 2000

  • Student

    1995 - 1999

  • Summer IT Intern

    1998 - 1998