Daniel Karp

Early-stage VC Investor in AI-native Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Data, Cloud and Open Source startups. Ex-Cisco Ventures and M&A, Microsoft Azure. Recovering engineer and PM.

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 35 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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A round investor
Dec 2025
As the leading provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CSaaS), RADICL is revolutionizing advanced cyberthreat protection for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and other regulated industries. No longer should SMBs be satisfied with lack luster solutions delivering lack luster protection. RADICL is ushering in a new era of turn-key and affordable cyberthreat protection via its AI-powered virtual SOC platform that allows human and digital agents to quickly and seamlessly become SMBs’ day-to-day compliance and security operations team. RADICL’s turn-key CSaaS offering uniquely combines compliance management with AI and expert-driven 24/7 security operations. We guide customers to regulatory and best practice adherence with standards like CMMC and NIST CSF while also delivering 24/7 threat monitoring, deep-spectrum™ threat hunting, incident response, vulnerability management, and security awareness training. With RADICL, customers can stay mission focused, confident their front, rear, and flank are protected, affordably and without compromise.
Board Member
Sep 2025
Paz.ai is a universal infrastructure for agentic commerce, enabling retailers to sell through AI agents with one integration across all protocols (ACP, MCP, AP2, A2A). We provide the infrastructure layer that connects your existing commerce platform with AI shopping agents and optimizes your catalog for maximum AI exposure. One integration, universal compatibility.
Angel Investor
Sep 2025
Tenzai is an AI-native cybersecurity company building cutting-edge AI hackers to ensure enterprises deliver unbreakable code. Its platform actively hacks, exploits, and helps fix vulnerabilities across enterprise software - continuously and at scale. Founded in 2025 by cybersecurity veterans Pavel Gurvich, Ariel Zeitlin, Ofri Ziv, Itamar Tal, and Aner Mazur, Tenzai has raised $75 million in seed funding from leading investors including Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures, and Lux Capital.
Angel Investor
Sep 2025
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
Angel Investor
Jul 2025
The first truly scalable decentralized computer
Angel Investor
Jun 2025
Ciroos (pronounced "Sai-rose") offers an AI SRE teammate that empowers site reliability engineers (SREs), DevOps and operations teams to be superheroes. Built from the ground up with the power of multi-agentic AI, Ciroos enables operations teams to reduce toil, investigate incidents, explain anomalies, and drive autonomous operations, across complex multi-domain environments, all while leaving humans in control. Reach out to us at www.ciroos.ai to learn more about what an AI SRE Teammate can do for you.
Seed Investor
Feb 2025
Datum is building the world’s first open network cloud — a neutral place where Alt Clouds, tech incumbents, and digital leaders can programmatically interact with their unique ecosystem. Our mission is to help 1k new clouds thrive in the AI era by unlocking "internet superpowers" for every builder. Our vision is to be the most trusted way for digital ecosystems to interact, with millions of intelligent connections to prove it. Datum has a strong belief in transparency and building trust with builders. Core components are released under the AGPLv3 license, giving users full visibility and audit capability, the ability to adapt and self-host if needed, and long-term confidence without vendor lock-in.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Were rethinking cloud infrastructure from first principles. Weve built technology that continuously snapshots Kubernetes workloads and can instantly move or restore them anywhere. This powers Architect, which eliminates the trade-off between cost and performance - you can scale to zero without cold starts, run everything on spot instances without disruption, and essentially decouple your applications from the underlying compute. Were making workloads truly portable while cutting Kubernetes costs by 30-50%.
Board Member
Oct 2023
Conveyor is the leading generative AI-powered platform that automates and scales the most tedious part of the sales process: customer security reviews. Trusted by the worlds top SaaS companies, Conveyor helps vendors build trust with customers while reducing the time spent on the mind-numbing task of sharing security information and answering security questionnaires by over 90%.
Board Observer
Aug 2023
We’re building the IT industry’s first causal AI platform to eliminate human troubleshooting and enable faster, more resilient cloud application management. Were hiring - join us!
Investor
Jul 2023
Safeguarding your assets from malicious attacks emanating from social media, Brinker is an end-to-end social threat mitigation platform servicing high-profile individuals, organizations, and brands. It fights online harassment and weaponized misinformation by using AI-powered investigation, legal action, media publication, and content removal.
Board Member
Jul 2022
Redefining digital identity for everyone. OwnID offers a digital identity that any individual can create and use to login to websites and apps - making usernames and passwords obsolete. Our mission is to create a simple, trusted and effortless tool to verify your digital identity. We want to create a future where everyone in the world is in charge of their own identity, creating a more trusting identity system globally.
Seed Investor
May 2022
The most reliable, powerful, and flexible PaaS, because we deploy to your AWS. No black box, lock-in, or AWS markups.
Angel Investor
Dec 2021
At Gelt, we are dedicated to providing premium tax solutions that empower you to keep more of your hard-earned money. With a team of experienced CPAs and the integration of cutting-edge technology, we'll help you reach your financial goals faster. Our expert CPAs analyze your unique financial situation to develop a tailored tax strategy that maximizes deductions and minimizes your tax liability. By staying up-to-date with the latest tax laws and regulations, we ensure that your tax planning remains compliant and optimized for maximum benefits. Experience the difference of our personalized, proactive, and transparent approach and discover how we can help you unlock your full financial potential.
Angel Investor
Dec 2021
Coho AI is a product-led revenue platform that enables companies to maximize the revenue potential of their user base. Putting data insights at the forefront of decision-making, Coho AI equips go-to-market and growth teams with the tools they need to identify, predict, and prioritize key conversion opportunities. Our platform fosters automated customer interactions and provides real-time visibility to your book of business. Capitalizing on product usage data, intelligent segmentation, and user journeys, Coho AI transforms how SaaS companies manage their self-service conversion and pipeline, driving maximum revenue.
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2025
A round investor
Dec 2025
As the leading provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CSaaS), RADICL is revolutionizing advanced cyberthreat protection for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and other regulated industries. No longer should SMBs be satisfied with lack luster solutions delivering lack luster protection. RADICL is ushering in a new era of turn-key and affordable cyberthreat protection via its AI-powered virtual SOC platform that allows human and digital agents to quickly and seamlessly become SMBs’ day-to-day compliance and security operations team. RADICL’s turn-key CSaaS offering uniquely combines compliance management with AI and expert-driven 24/7 security operations. We guide customers to regulatory and best practice adherence with standards like CMMC and NIST CSF while also delivering 24/7 threat monitoring, deep-spectrum™ threat hunting, incident response, vulnerability management, and security awareness training. With RADICL, customers can stay mission focused, confident their front, rear, and flank are protected, affordably and without compromise.
Board Member
Sep 2025
Paz.ai is a universal infrastructure for agentic commerce, enabling retailers to sell through AI agents with one integration across all protocols (ACP, MCP, AP2, A2A). We provide the infrastructure layer that connects your existing commerce platform with AI shopping agents and optimizes your catalog for maximum AI exposure. One integration, universal compatibility.
Angel Investor
Sep 2025
Tenzai is an AI-native cybersecurity company building cutting-edge AI hackers to ensure enterprises deliver unbreakable code. Its platform actively hacks, exploits, and helps fix vulnerabilities across enterprise software - continuously and at scale. Founded in 2025 by cybersecurity veterans Pavel Gurvich, Ariel Zeitlin, Ofri Ziv, Itamar Tal, and Aner Mazur, Tenzai has raised $75 million in seed funding from leading investors including Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures, and Lux Capital.
Angel Investor
Sep 2025
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
Angel Investor
Jul 2025
The first truly scalable decentralized computer
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