Danel Dayan

Danel is a vice president who currently focuses on early-stage and growth-equity investments in areas including cloud infrastructure, big data, security and next-generation enterprise applications. He is involved in Battery’s investments in Arize, Bionic, Contrast Security, Harness, LinearB, Machinify, Matillion, Normalyze, Postman, Sensu, Styra, Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO), and Weaviate. And since 2021, he has made seed investments in Orkes, Viam Robotics and Voltron Data. Danel was previously involved with Bridgecrew (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT), JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG) and Sensu (acquired by Sumo Logic). 

Previously he worked in corporate development at Google on strategic M&A initiatives including acquisitions, divestitures and investments. Prior to this he also worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank and an associate at PwC.

Danel graduated from Santa Clara University with a B.S. in commerce, with a concentration in accounting and finance and a minor in entrepreneurship.