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Dan Hightower

Product Lead at AngelList

United States

Overview 

Dan Hightower is a Product Lead at AngelList with a background as a 2x founder and Army Special Forces member. His career highlights include founding Clariture Health (now Trilliant Health) and serving in the US Army as a Green Beret Medical Sergeant. Currently, Dan excels in his role at AngelList, where he leverages his skills in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and strategic partnerships to invest in and support companies in sectors like Sales & CRM, Digital Health, and AI.

Work Experience 

  • Product Lead

    2022 - Current

    Building AngelList's software suite for companies: - Equity/Employee management - Banking, financing solutions, and money movement - Stakeholder relationship management - Legal innovations (Roll Up Vehicles)

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.

  • Product Director

    2021 - 2022

Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.

Raised $1,157,600,000.00 from 8090 Partners, Unanimous Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Vetamer, GS Growth, Step Ahead Capital, Massive, Silver Lake, Moonshots Capital and Launchbay Capital.

  • Co-Founder/COO

    2020 - 2021

    Built computer vision infrastructure for detecting and reducing physical risk in industrial environments, and sold it to insurers like The Hartford and Nationwide to get to first few million in ARR. Then launched our own worker's compensation insurance product.

  • Special Forces (Green Beret) Medical Sergeant

    2015 - 2019

  • Founder/CEO

    2011 - 2015

    Built SaaS for analyzing hospital patient data, and sold it to enterprise health systems like Community Health Systems and HCA. Acquired.

  • Associate Director

    2009 - 2011

    Spreadsheeted, sourced deals, and listened intently to founders as they built software companies.

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