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Sky Dayton

Venture Partner at Craft Ventures

United States

Overview 

Sky Dayton is a Partner at Dayton Family Enterprises, with a strong focus on strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, and angel investing in the mobile technology and e-commerce sectors. Notable highlights of his career include co-founding City Storage Systems & CloudKitchens and serving on the boards of Joby Aviation and Age of Learning, Inc. / ABCmouse.com.

Work Experience 

  • Board

    2025 - Current

Xona Space Systems develops satellite services for positioning, navigation, and timing to support the advancement of intelligent systems.

Raised $39,424,995.00 from الياس الجبل, Murata Manufacturing, Space Capital, NGP Capital, Future Ventures, Seraphim Space, Aloniq and Industrious Ventures.

  • Venture Partner

    2018

Craft Ventures is an early-stage and growth fund with proven, repeated success building and scaling SaaS businesses.

  • Board

    2011

Diffbot is an AI startup that provides knowledge as a service to power intelligent applications.

Raised $13,000,000.00 from Amplify Partners, Georges Harik, Felicis, Andy Bechtolsheim, Tencent and Bill Lee.

  • Board

    2013 - 2025

Artsy is the largest online art marketplace with more than 1 million artworks by over 100,000 artists.

Raised $100,880,053.00 from Devang Thakkar, Joe Gebbia, Wendi Murdoch, Thrive Capital, Glassdoor, Shumway Capital, L Catterton, Avenir, iHeartMedia and Greg Maffei.

  • Co-Founder

    2020 - 2022

SummerBio is a lab diagnostics that developed an end-to-end COVID-19 testing system.

Raised $7,300,000.00 from Joby Trust, Intel Capital, Capricorn Investment Group, Toyota Ventures, Dayton Family Enterprises, Sciarra Management Trust and 8VC.

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