Investor profile
Daniel Darling
Accelerator, Corporate VC, Venture capital & Mentor (Deep Tech & Digital) at Endless Frontier Labs, Co-founder & Managing Partner at Focal, Mentor at G-Startup Worldwide
Daniel Darling is a Co-founder & Managing Partner at Focal, whose known portfolio counts 13 companies.
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Affiliated funds' portfolios
Mentor (Deep Tech & Digital) at Endless Frontier Labs, whose known portfolio counts 1 company
- Troverlo
Co-founder & Managing Partner at Focal, whose known portfolio counts 13 companies
- Boldr
- Honest Mobile
- Coworker.ai
- Flamingo
- Thoras.ai
- BLNG
- Cosine
- Keragon
- VIZGARD
- Kaiden AI
- Maxed
- On Me
- and 1 more
Mentor at G-Startup Worldwide, whose known portfolio counts 2 companies
- InnaMed
- Feelter
Investor Profile
Daniel Darling is listed against sectors AI, Consumer, FinTech and Hardware, and focus areas AI Applications, API, AR/VR and Academic Spinouts in the database.
Focal appears in Pre-Seed and Seed rounds across its known deals.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Daniel Darling is worth approaching.
Colleagues
William O'Farrell
Chief Mentor
New York, United States
Aidan MacMillan
Partner VC
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Carole du Fretay
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Petteri Koponen
Board Member
Helsinki, Finland
Hector Mason
Co-Founder
London, United Kingdom
Frank Vallese ScD
Mentor
New York City, United States
Pascal Unger
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Miami, United States
Ben Ashworth
VC Partner
London, United Kingdom
Richard Baillie
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Kris Kemeny
Investor
New York, United States
Avi Rosenbaum
Startup Mentor, Life Sciences and Deep Tech
New York City, United States
Hugo Melvin
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Isabella Thomas
Partner Fund
United Kingdom
Mark Hogarth
Partner VC
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Frequently asked questions
Who is Daniel Darling?
Daniel Darling is an accelerator partner and corporate venture investor based in San Francisco, California, United States, listed as Co-founder & Managing Partner at Focal. The known portfolio of that firm counts 13 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Daniel Darling personally.
What does Daniel Darling invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Consumer, FinTech and Hardware; listed focus areas include AI Applications, API, AR/VR and Academic Spinouts. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Daniel Darling invest at?
Focal appears in Pre-Seed and Seed rounds across its known deals, and Daniel Darling is listed there as Co-founder & Managing Partner. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Daniel Darling listed at?
Daniel Darling is listed as Co-founder & Managing Partner at Focal. 14 other people in the database share a firm with Daniel Darling.
How do I contact Daniel Darling?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Daniel Darling. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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