Dane Knecht
About Dane Knecht
Dane Knecht is the Chief Technology Officer of Cloudflare. He joined in 2012, when the company had fewer than 30 people. Cloudflare's press kit says he has led the development, launch and scaling of Cloudflare Zero Trust, the Cloudflare Developer Platform and the company's AI inference and agents platform.
He became CTO in March 2025, after previously serving as SVP of Emerging Technology and Incubation. Before Cloudflare, he founded an ecommerce SaaS company that was later acquired. He also held product leadership roles at MessageOne and Dell. He graduated from Columbia University and lives in Austin, Texas.
Knecht describes himself on X as an angel investor. Crunchbase lists 4 personal investments and one exit, PartyKit. He is also named on First Round Capital's Angel Track page, a program for people who want to improve as angel investors. His public investments are in developer tools and AI infrastructure companies, several founded by people in the Cloudflare and developer community.
Supermemory, which builds a memory layer for AI apps and agents, announced a $3M pre-seed round in October 2025. Its announcement names him among the participating angels, and the Lounge deals desk lists the round as 2026-06. TechCrunch reports that Knecht was among the advisors who asked founder Dhravya Shah to turn Supermemory into a product. Shah had interned at Cloudflare.
Command Code, an AI coding agent, raised a $5M seed in February 2026. Press coverage names Knecht among its angels. The Lounge deals desk also lists Herdr, a $6M seed dated 2026-09. We found no public announcement of the Herdr round beyond the deals desk.
Public information shows early-stage checks, from pre-seed to seed, in AI infrastructure, AI agents and developer tools. His own rounds are US-based startups with technical founders. Knecht has not published a check size, a fund size or a formal investment thesis.
- Supermemory: memory layer for LLMs and agents; $3M pre-seed announced October 2025, with Knecht as a named angel.
- Command Code: AI coding agent; $5M seed in February 2026, with Knecht as a named angel.
- Herdr: $6M seed listed on the Lounge deals desk for 2026-09.
- PartyKit: listed on Crunchbase as an exit for Knecht.
- cloudflare.com/press/press-kit
- crunchbase.com/person/dane-knecht
- crunchbase.com/funding_round/supermemory-pre-seed--b57bf815
- supermemory.ai/blog/supermemory-raises-3-million-and-building-the-best
- techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/a-19-year-old-nabs-backing-from-google-execs
- brandrums.com/blog/command-code-ai-coding-agent-explainer-2026
- firstround.com/angel-track
- x.com/dok2001
Investing activity
Dane Knecht appears in 3 AI deals tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed and Pre-seed, with a median round size of $5M and the largest at $6M. The most recent are Herdr (Seed, $6M, Sep 2026), Supermemory (Pre-seed, $3M, Jun 2026) and Command Code (Seed, $5M, Feb 2026).
Dane Knecht most often invests alongside Theo Browne, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tobi Lütke and Y Combinator, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Dane Knecht
Is Dane Knecht an angel investor?
Yes. His X profile says he is an angel investor, and Crunchbase lists 4 personal investments. He is also CTO of Cloudflare.
What stage does Dane Knecht invest in?
His known AI investments are pre-seed and seed rounds: Supermemory (pre-seed), Command Code (seed) and Herdr (seed, per the Lounge deals desk).
What sectors does Dane Knecht back?
His public investments are in AI infrastructure, AI agents and developer tools. Supermemory builds AI memory, and Command Code builds a coding agent.
What is Dane Knecht's check size?
He has not published a check size. Round totals such as Supermemory's $3M are not his individual cheque.
How can founders reach Dane Knecht?
He is on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/dknecht and on X as @dok2001. He has no public personal site, and he has not published a pitch process.
What is Dane Knecht's background?
He has been at Cloudflare since 2012 and became CTO in March 2025. Earlier he founded an ecommerce SaaS company that was acquired, and held product roles at MessageOne and Dell.
What AI companies has Dane Knecht invested in?
Dane Knecht's AI investments include Herdr, Supermemory and Command Code. The 3 rounds on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Dane Knecht invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Dane Knecht has invested at Seed and Pre-seed, with a median round of $5M.
Who does Dane Knecht co-invest with?
Dane Knecht's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Theo Browne (2 deals), Bessemer Venture Partners (1 deal), Tobi Lütke (1 deal), Y Combinator (1 deal) and e2vc (1 deal).