Daniel Liem
About Daniel Liem
Daniel Liem is based in San Francisco. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His LinkedIn summary describes a decade of building zero-to-one SaaS, AI, developer and productivity tools.
He was a product manager at Dropbox, Uber and FiscalNote, and was a Kleiner Perkins Product Fellow while at Uber. During college he was a campus scout for Sequoia Capital, and he has also interned at General Catalyst and ran his own angel fund. He later joined Obvious Ventures as a Senior Associate.
He co-founded Pesto (Crunchbase lists the company as Pragli, now closed) with Doug Safreno and Vivek Nair. He also co-founded Gentrace and served as its COO. His LinkedIn profile currently lists the Founder's Office at Decagon.
Crunchbase lists four personal investments for Liem. They are n8n (seed, announced March 2020), LaunchNotes (Series A, May 2022), Jericho Security (pre-seed) and Strix (seed, June 2026). Tracxn dates the start of his angel activity to 2023 through Jericho Security. Crunchbase also lists him as an investor in Linear (2019) and Sirona Medical (2018), and a third-party LinkedIn mirror mentions Codegen, Gitar and Kindred. The different sources do not agree on the full list, so treat the count as approximate. PitchBook lists him as an active individual angel.
His most recent listed investment is the Strix seed round, which the Lounge deals desk records as $6.7M in June 2026. Strix is a San Francisco company building an open-source AI security platform that uses autonomous agents to pentest applications, APIs and codebases. Crunchbase shows the round included 1984 Ventures and 15 other investors, and he is listed among them. Jericho Security and n8n also sit in the enterprise software and automation space.
Round Funded lists his stages as pre-seed and seed. It lists his sectors as artificial intelligence, healthcare and biotech, digital health, and SaaS and enterprise. Tracxn records his investments as United States companies. His portfolio is mostly developer tools, enterprise software and AI infrastructure. No check size, fund size or public statement of his investment criteria was found, so none is given here.
- Strix: open-source AI security platform using autonomous agents for pentesting; seed round, June 2026.
- Jericho Security: enterprise security company; pre-seed round, listed by Tracxn as starting in 2023.
- LaunchNotes: product communication software; Series A, May 2022.
- n8n: workflow automation platform; seed round, March 2020.
- Linear: software development and issue tracking tool; listed as an investor since 2019.
- Sirona Medical: medical imaging software; listed as an investor since 2018.
Investing activity
Daniel Liem appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $7M. The most recent is Strix (Seed, $6.7M, Jun 2026).
Daniel Liem most often invests alongside Heavybit, Kareem Amin, Maza Ventures and Ivan Burazin, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Daniel Liem
Does Daniel Liem invest in AI startups?
Yes. He is listed as an investor in the Strix seed round (June 2026), an AI security company. Round Funded lists artificial intelligence among his sectors.
What stage does Daniel Liem invest at?
Round Funded lists pre-seed and seed. His known deals include a pre-seed (Jericho Security), seeds (n8n, Strix) and a Series A (LaunchNotes).
What is Daniel Liem's check size?
No check size is public. Lounge does not estimate one.
What is Daniel Liem's background?
He studied computer science at Stanford and worked as a product manager at Dropbox, Uber and FiscalNote. He later joined Obvious Ventures as a Senior Associate and co-founded Pesto and Gentrace. His LinkedIn lists Decagon as his current employer.
Where is Daniel Liem based?
He is based in San Francisco, California. Tracxn lists his investments as United States companies.
How can founders contact Daniel Liem?
His LinkedIn profile is the public channel found. No personal website or X account was found.
Is Daniel Liem an angel investor?
Yes. Daniel Liem invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Daniel Liem invested in?
Daniel Liem's AI investments include Strix. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
Who does Daniel Liem co-invest with?
Daniel Liem's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Heavybit (1 deal), Kareem Amin (1 deal), Maza Ventures (1 deal), Ivan Burazin (1 deal) and Preston-Werner Ventures (1 deal).
How can founders reach Daniel Liem?
Founders on Lounge can see Daniel Liem's contact details in AI Investor Contacts (paid plans), check for a warm introduction through members who worked with them under Warm Paths, and add Daniel Liem to their Investor Pipeline to track the conversation.