Dan Cahana
Investor at Notable Capital
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - Current
Vice President at Notable Capital, investing from seed to Series B in SaaS companies, with a focus on AI, data, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and cybersecurity. I've partnered with the teams at Vercel, Anthropic, Neon, fal, StarTree, Drata, Inngest, Token Security, Gem Security, Netbox Labs, Patronus AI, and a few seed-stage stealth mode companies. Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital) is a multi-stage venture capital firm with $5B in assets under management. Our investments include Airbnb, Affirm, HashiCorp, Monte Carlo, Opendoor, Peloton, Slack, Square, and more.
Notable Capital is a venture capital firm investing in notable ideas, notable causes, and notable founders with global ambitions.
Founding Member
2022
IID is an angel collective comprised of 60+ data and AI executives investing in and advising startups
Board Observer
2022
Led Series A
Neon is an open-source database company that offers a serverless Postgres platform that allows developers to build applications.
Raised $129,600,000.00 from Notable Capital, Abstract, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst.
Board Observer
2025
Led Series B
Generative Media Platform for Developers
Raised $23,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Julien Chaumond, Kindred Ventures, Aravind Srinivas and Guillermo Rauch.
Board Observer
2024
Led Series A
Patronus AI operates as an automated evaluation and security platform.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Datadog, Tristan Handy, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Michael Callahan, Factorial Capital, Jason Warner, Aparna Sinha, Nadim Hossain, Gokul Rajaram and Barr Moses.
Board Observer
2025
Led Series A
Board Observer
2023
Led Seed
Inngest is the developer platform for easily building reliable workflows with zero infrastructure.
Raised $10,600,000.00 from Guillermo Rauch, GGV Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Afore Capital.
Board Observer
2022
Invested in Series A and led Series B
StarTree is a startup building a platform-as-service version of the Apache Pinot analytics platform.
Raised $75,000,000.00 from Sapphire Ventures, Notable Capital, CRV and Bain Capital Ventures.
Investor
2021
Invested in Series C and led Series D
Vercel is a software company that provides cloud infrastructure services to save and secure personalized web.
Raised $563,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, SV Angel, Google Ventures, Notable Capital, Geodesic Capital, 8VC, Bedrock, Accel and CRV.
Board Observer
2023 - 2024
Led Series A. Acquired by Wiz
Gem mission is to help security operations evolve into the cloud era, and stop cloud threats before they become incidents.
Raised $34,000,000.00 from Team8, Notable Capital, IBM Ventures and Silicon Valley CISO Investments.