Dan Gonzales

🐧 Penguin Author, Entrepreneur, & Podcast Host at Startup Mindsets

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
VC🌍 United States
7
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2
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4
Mid stage
0
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7y
Years active

Portfolio

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Advisor/Shareholder
Mar 2022
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Investor
Jun 2019
Akash Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed, late-stage, Bay Area company that makes and sells Diamond Cooled GPU-based servers to AI companies, Cloud Service Providers, and data centers worldwide. The deep tech company pioneered Diamond Cooling® technology wherein the world’s most thermally conductive material, lab-grown diamond, is brought into intimate contact with GPUs – the densest heat source chip in a modern high compute server. The resulting Akash server is one that exhibits more compute in FLOPS (>50%) and FLOPS per Watt (by 2x) than any other server in the market today. Akash’s Diamond Cooled servers also reduce the energy cost of cooling the entire data center since the servers can operate in an ambient temperature of up to 120oF. The company’s lead investors include Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. Akash Systems recently deployed its Diamond Cooling® technology in space, where many Akash satellite radios are now in operation.
Investor
Jun 2019
The FCFL is the first ever fan-controlled professional sports league, where fans act as part-coach, part-GM, and part-owner. Fans have the power to hire coaches, draft rosters, and even call plays while streaming the games live in a digital-first broadcast. We are bringing power to the fans!
early stageSports
Investor
Jun 2019
Contraline is a venture-backed, clinical-stage biotechnology company at the forefront of male contraception.
Investor
Jun 2019
We are reimagining sports through technology, fan ownership, and AI. We built Fan Controlled Football and Fan Controlled Racing, the first pro sports where fans called the plays in real time. With 4 Sports Emmy nominations, weve proven fans want more than just a seat in the stands, they want the controls. Now we’re scaling our vision into a global platform. The Victory Sports ecosystem powers interactive sports and prediction markets using AI agents, tokenized governance, and smart on-chain incentives. Our newest project, Legend, lets AI agents and token holders co-manage a real Italian football club, Costa DAmalfi FC, turning fan passion into real-world impact. Backed by Tier 1 investors like Delphi Digital, Lightspeed, Animoca, and Spartan, we’re building the next generation of sports. One that is interactive, intelligent, and owned by the fans.
Investor
Jun 2019
Bitesize was made with one simple goal in mind: growing your store revenue beyond what you thought possible. Hear back from hardest to reach customers in minutes with Bitesize and grow your business now.
Investor
Jun 2019
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Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (3)
2022
Advisor/Shareholder
Mar 2022
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2020
Founder/CEO
Apr 2020
A podcast produced and hosted by Dan Gonzales and Earl Valencia, where we interview startup subject matter experts about the mindsets behind what comprises a thriving startup.
early stageMedia Production
2019
Co-Founder/Event Planner
Jul 2019
Our mission is to unite the entire Asian community in the San Francisco Bay Area through our semi-professional & non-professional-at-all events. We see there are divides among each Asian race and under-representation of some Asian races, and we want to be the leaders in this change. Let's gather together to learn, grow, and have fun as Asian Founders, Funders & Friends.
Co-Founder
Jul 2019
Our mission is to unite the entire Asian community in the San Francisco Bay Area through our semi-professional & non-professional-at-all events. We see there are divides among each Asian race and under-representation of some Asian races, and we want to be the leaders in this change. Let's gather together to learn, grow, and have fun as Asian Founders, Funders & Friends.
Investor
Jun 2019
Akash Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed, late-stage, Bay Area company that makes and sells Diamond Cooled GPU-based servers to AI companies, Cloud Service Providers, and data centers worldwide. The deep tech company pioneered Diamond Cooling® technology wherein the world’s most thermally conductive material, lab-grown diamond, is brought into intimate contact with GPUs – the densest heat source chip in a modern high compute server. The resulting Akash server is one that exhibits more compute in FLOPS (>50%) and FLOPS per Watt (by 2x) than any other server in the market today. Akash’s Diamond Cooled servers also reduce the energy cost of cooling the entire data center since the servers can operate in an ambient temperature of up to 120oF. The company’s lead investors include Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. Akash Systems recently deployed its Diamond Cooling® technology in space, where many Akash satellite radios are now in operation.
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