Dane Mcdonald

Founder/CEO at Batshitcrazy Ventures & Outpost

📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 United States
18
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14
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3
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0
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2020
Xplore provides unique data products to our customers with insights, intelligence, inspiration, discovery from their satellite constellation. The XCRAFT satellites carry remote sensing instruments including optical, video, and hyperspectral sensors to produce valuable data and insights for our customers. Additionally, its edge computing capability enables the creation of data fusion products and insights to be extracted on-orbit, reducing latency and data transmission costs.
Investor
2019
Polycade is the only modern arcade platform designed to run both classic and modern games. By upgrading the design, interface, and hardware of the traditional arcade, Polycade has launched a unique platform to cater to the casual game experience. Polycades exist in homes, offices, waiting rooms, bars, restaurants, etc. Check out the design and product at www.polycade.com
Investor
2019
Managing deal flow can be an enormous pain and time suck. By funneling, sorting, and centralizing all of your deal flow, Outpost streamlines the entire process.
Investor
2019
As one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage brands, Liquid Death uses comedy and entertainment to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun. We take low-calorie beverages and package them into infinitely recyclable cans that compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands across energy drinks, beer, and junk food. Our product lines include mountain water, soda-flavored sparkling water, iced tea, better-for-you energy, and more. A portion of Liquid Death’s proceeds goes to nonprofits who are helping fight plastic pollution and further our death to plastic bottles sustainability mission.
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May 2018
CAKE is a Scandinavian maker of premium lightweight electric motorcycles and mopeds, with a clear mission to inspire a zero-emission society by combining excitement and responsibility. Along with numerous awards and recognitions for its design and innovative approach to mobility and sustainability, CAKE was identified as one of the world’s most innovative brands by Fast Company in both 2020 and 2021 and received the Time Magazine 100 most important inventions award in 2021.
Investor at GoFire
Feb 2018
Official LinkedIn of Gofire Inc. - SMART Product Guide and Metered Dose Inhaler for plant-based medicine. Your health is in your hands. Take control today. Download our app: bit.ly/GofireApp Gofire products empower you with intelligence regarding your alternative health behaviors. Our team is committed to helping you control your medicine and realize the medicinal and therapeutic benefits of alternative health products through a new take on wellness innovation. Everything we do is to help you better understand your mind and body in relation to a single dose. Transforming the way you experience your medicine is where we chose to begin. Discover your personal dose, and explore the advantages of personalized health monitoring with Gofire. The Future of Health will soon be in your hands. Are you ready? For more information, please visit: www.gofire.co
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Feb 2018
Constellation is the world’s only Blockchain technology designed for Big Data, providing infrastructure for an open decentralized data marketplace and an enterprise-grade software solution for data provenance and integrity. It’s secure, cost-effective, scalable, and easy to integrate. Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/constellationcommunity
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2018
Welcome to Fi. We’re a passionate team of alumni from Square, Google, Peloton, Uber, and more working to transform the dog-human relationship. Our mission? Develop cutting-edge tech to revolutionize what it means to be a dog parent. The dog industry remains firmly stuck in the past, but were not satisfied with the status quo. Fi is leveraging our teams talent and expertise to improve the lives of 100 million+ dogs in the U.S. Real-time location tracking, activity and step counting, sleep and behavior monitoring – and thats just the beginning. The most exciting aspect of our work? Bridging the communication gap between dogs and humans. Imagine a world where your pet can tell you when something feels off. Thats the future were building at Fi. Join us in our pursuit of the “impossible,” which really means “let me find a way,” to redefine the future of dog ownership together.
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2018
SpeQtral is developing space-based quantum systems for the global delivery of secure encryption keys.
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2018
Kubos is a satellite software company. We focus on providing cloud technologies to the satellite industry through our mission control platform, Major Tom. Major Tom is a unified cloud platform to integrate and control ground segment applications and services, through out-of-the-box integrations, data analytics, real-time dashboards and a customizable commanding API. Customers will have complete visibility and control across the entire space and ground segment.
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2018
IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN SPARK IT. We believe in living a playful life rich in flavors & sparked by new experiences. We believe curiosity fuels creativity. We believe the joy of the cooking journey is the destination. It’s this spirit that fueled us to reimagine the creative possibilities of cooking with fiery charcoal to live & play flavorfully—every day. Spark Grills innovated the first & only charcoal grilling system with Swiss Army Knife culinary versatility —with an unrivaled precision controlled temperature range from 250°-900°F, there’s really nothing you can’t cook on a Spark. That's right, from a low-n-slow 250°F to a searing 900°F and all the glorious temps in between.🔥 Bet you’re wondering, sounds good…but what about all that precious time to get that charcoal fired up just right? Well, if you have 5 minutes, our proprietary charcoal Briq will be fired up and ready for you (and that rib-eye). And when it comes to clean-up, easy peasy. Allowing you to focus on that delicious & playful culinary journey. Founded by Benjamin West in 2017 after years of designing high-efficiency cookstoves in developing countries, Spark is on a mission to ignite a charcoal revolution and open up more culinary possibilities for home cooks than ever before. Spark also believes in sparking change—for every Spark Grill sold, Spark donates a locally manufactured cookstove to a family in Ghana in partnership with CookClean Ghana Limited. Spark provides hands-on customer care and home delivery throughout the contiguous United States. The Spark Grill, Briqs, bundles, and accessories are available online at www.sparkgrills.com.
early stageManufacturing
Investor
Dec 2017
Building our next financial system at Core Scientific
Investor
Nov 2017
The first free and open platform for influencers to build show of their work and find collaborations with brands, agencies, managers, and other professionals in the influence industry.
Investor
Mar 2017
Local agencies are a crucial segment of the child care industry. Our goal is to help agency owners save time and stay competitive by automating their temporary care operations and giving their customers the technology they expect with the Sitter Pro platform. Tasks like caregiver scheduling and processing payments that used to take days, take minutes with Sitter Pro. Now, agency owners can spend their time growing their business, not managing it. Sitter Pro consists of iPhone and Android apps for clients and caregivers in addition to a full back-end management system for the agency to oversee their operations. A few of the features: -Automated caregiver scheduling and assignment based on a proprietary algorithm that takes into account family favorites and agency recommendations -Time tracking -Automated payment processing supporting credit cards, cash, or invoices -Corporate backup care support -Supports any in-home care type including child, pet, senior, home, and tutoring. -Supports almost any business model with custom rate management and policy configuration including cancellation fees, minimum hours, and last-minute booking fees -Multiple service area support -Business reporting
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2017
Sunday is a Boulder-based startup that’s reinventing the lawn and garden space. Our data-driven service and products will help 90 million Americans turn their yards into verdant and sustainable ecosystems.
early stageRetail
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2020
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2020
Xplore provides unique data products to our customers with insights, intelligence, inspiration, discovery from their satellite constellation. The XCRAFT satellites carry remote sensing instruments including optical, video, and hyperspectral sensors to produce valuable data and insights for our customers. Additionally, its edge computing capability enables the creation of data fusion products and insights to be extracted on-orbit, reducing latency and data transmission costs.
2019
Investor
2019
Polycade is the only modern arcade platform designed to run both classic and modern games. By upgrading the design, interface, and hardware of the traditional arcade, Polycade has launched a unique platform to cater to the casual game experience. Polycades exist in homes, offices, waiting rooms, bars, restaurants, etc. Check out the design and product at www.polycade.com
Investor
2019
Managing deal flow can be an enormous pain and time suck. By funneling, sorting, and centralizing all of your deal flow, Outpost streamlines the entire process.
Investor
2019
As one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage brands, Liquid Death uses comedy and entertainment to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun. We take low-calorie beverages and package them into infinitely recyclable cans that compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands across energy drinks, beer, and junk food. Our product lines include mountain water, soda-flavored sparkling water, iced tea, better-for-you energy, and more. A portion of Liquid Death’s proceeds goes to nonprofits who are helping fight plastic pollution and further our death to plastic bottles sustainability mission.
2018
Investor
May 2018
CAKE is a Scandinavian maker of premium lightweight electric motorcycles and mopeds, with a clear mission to inspire a zero-emission society by combining excitement and responsibility. Along with numerous awards and recognitions for its design and innovative approach to mobility and sustainability, CAKE was identified as one of the world’s most innovative brands by Fast Company in both 2020 and 2021 and received the Time Magazine 100 most important inventions award in 2021.
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