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Danielle Morrill

CEO & Cofounder at Groupthink

Denver, Colorado

Education

Work Experience

  • Cofounder & CEO

    2024

  • Cofounder & CTO

    2022 - 2024

    www.groupthink.com

  • Certified Professional Coach

    2020

    In 2020 I started providing executive leadership coaching focused on supporting founders and senior executives of high growth technology startups as they navigate the challenges of leadership through accelerating change. I am ICF certified through the Hudson Institute of Coaching, after completing 125 hours of training.

  • Startup Investor

    2012

    My investments tend to focus on developer tools, collaboration SaaS, machine learning, data, infrastructure and aerospace. Some examples from my portfolio: - Relate IQ (acquired by Salesforce in 2014) - Bitnami (aquired by VMware in 2019) - Clara Labs (acquired by Twitter and TopFunnel in 2019) - Boom Supersonic - Retool - Teamshares - Atomos Nuclear & Space See more about my investments on AngelList https://angel.co/p/danielle-morrill

2022

  • Limited Partner

    2022

  • Limited Partner

    2017

  • Investing Partner

    2017 - 2021

    XFactor is a female founder led early stage VC fund backing other female founders. I was an active investing partner in funds 1 and 2. I am no longer active, but remain a co-investor and LP in the funds https://www.xfactor.ventures/

2021 - 2022

  • CTO & Cofounder

    2021 - 2022

    Data-driven marketing attribution, fed by your existing warehouse or our free marketing analytics platform www.firstpartyhq.com

2019 - 2021

  • Senior Director, Inbound Marketing

    2020 - 2021

    Lead critical Marketing initiatives including the relaunch of the company's public-facing marketing website. I was responsible for leading inbound marketing overseeing brand, SEO, content marketing, and coordination of an internal software development services team. I was also a member of the company's Senior Leadership which requires additional cross-functional general management responsibilities focused on leadership training, culture support, and change management. At the peak, I had 30 marketing team members reporting up through me at GitLab. This included an embedded software engineering team. I started in this role while covering for the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing, and at my largest scope I had ~70 people (more than half of the overall marketing organization) rolling up to my org through my direct report managers.

  • Interim Senior Director, Corporate Marketing

    2020 - 2020

    Following the completion of my tour of duty at Meltano, I offered to join Marketing and cover for a colleague on leave. During this time, I was responsible for the brand, PR, content, and events teams.

  • General Manager, Meltano

    2019 - 2020

    Reported to CEO/Cofounder Sid Sijbrandij. In this role I filled both the CEO and CTO role of an internal startup, which I lead from concept to v1 launch. I recruited an internal CEO to succeed me, and successfully transitioned him into the role. I became a "free agent" at GitLab at the end of this effort, and ended up joining the Marketing department reporting to the CMO. Under the CEO I recruited, Meltano was spun out as an independent venture-backed company with Series A funding led by Alphabet's GV, and Series B led by Venrock. I am now an investor.

2017 - 2018

  • Vice President, Product

    2017 - 2018

    Acquisition transition role from Mattermark.

2013 - 2017

  • CEO & Cofounder

    2013 - 2017

    SaaS software providing firmographic data for investment screening and sales lead enrichment. Mattermark grew to 70 employees and raised $18.5 million in venture capital. Acquired by FullContact (December 2017)

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