Dan Goldsmith (He/Him)

Co-Founder & Partner at Proofpoint Capital

📍 Greater Philadelphia, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 30 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
30
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May 2026
Klinic helps independent practitioners to launch, run, and grow private practices. We offer a combination of services — including integrating software, marketing, care coordination, billing, and credentialing — and we flexibly operate either under Klinics Group NPI or under an independent practices Group NPI. We aim to alleviate provider burnout and facilitate access to better patient care. By focusing on major emerging epidemics, we provide more immediate and more affordable care for the tens of millions of people in the U.S. struggling with addiction, depression, and obesity.
Board Member
Sep 2025
Lin Health partners with payers and providers to help people reclaim their lives from chronic pain through human-led, tech-enabled, highly personalized care. Our award-winning, comprehensive approach applies the latest neuroscience to treat conditions as diverse as migraines, IBS, and back and joint pain. We partner with health systems, clinics, and payers as an integrated extension of the care team to offer patients an affordable, immediately accessible, and non-pharmacological solution for highly prevalent neuroplastic pain. Our clinically validated intervention targets the nervous system by combining the most effective pain signaling techniques, incorporating multidisciplinary clinical guidance, high-frequency coaching, evidence-based digital resources, and proprietary technology to improve patient outcomes, patient and provider satisfaction, and clinic success. Our proprietary AI-based Care Platform provides rapid scalability and has served thousands of patients in the past 12-months. Lin Health was founded by industry veterans and is funded by leading investors.
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Jan 2024
Rego is an AI-powered waste diversion platform for large items, like furniture. Our mission is to build cleaner communities across the world by first reducing the amount of furniture that ends up in landfills or dumped on the street.
Investor
Jun 2023
A healthy antioxidant energy drink mix containing no sugar, no sucralose and no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. Pureboost delivers pure micronutrients, multi-vitamins and antioxidants to give you an immediate boost any time of day. Each serving delivers a surge of 25 pH-balanced vitamins, minerals, herbs and amino acids, including turmeric, ginger, and Vitamin C. Plus our energy drink powder contains electrolytes for rapid hydration. We’re dads and moms who wanted a clean energy drink that could help us keep up with our kids. But we couldn’t find anything out there. Together, we created our own that agrees with your body and mind, keeping you alert and energized.
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May 2023
Nanocan Therapeutics Corporation is a Princeton, New Jersey based early stage biotechnology company developing cutting-edge, nanotechnology based innovations for therapeutic medicines to treat certain cancers where current interventions are insufficient. The Company’s inventions deploy smart radiotherapy biomaterials (nanoparticle drones), as a drug-delivery platform. Nanocan’s nanoparticle drones can be employed to sustainably deliver different drug payloads – including immunotherapy drugs, chemotherapy drugs, and phytomedicines – precisely to disease sites or targets, with greater therapeutic efficacy. Through its partnerships with leading academic research institutions, Nanocan is rapidly developing therapies that may ultimately result in new standards of care to help improve the lives of cancer patients. Nanocan is committed to making its disruptive innovations available to cancer patients in the U.S. and globally, including Low and Middle-Income Countries (“LMICs”), starting with countries in Africa.
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Apr 2023
Hyka.io is on an ambitious mission to build the technology infrastructure needed for patients to be seamlessly referred to specialized behavioral health treatments.
Investor
Mar 2023
LIV Process is the first and only product in the world to make C. diff spores visible on any surface. LIV Process is a transformative spray and light solution that illuminates C. diff spores on surfaces. LIV Process is a transformative surface surveillance tool that: * Elevates healthcare cleaning protocols and reduces cost of care * Raises the bar for infectious disease prevention * Pinpoints contamination hot spots * Breakthrough verification tool * Results in minutes; No more waiting on labs
Investor
Mar 2023
CSG is an investment firm dedicated to driving excellence in the sports management landscape. We specialize in acquiring and cultivating sports franchises, inspiring change through principled ownership.
early stageSpectator Sports
Investor
Jan 2022
HiDef is a new video game company cofounded by interactive entertainment industry veterans Anthony Castoro, Jace Hall, and Rick Fox, and social impact expert Dr. David Washington. We believe in leveling the playing field for creators and innovators of all backgrounds by opening doors to opportunities that traditionally dont have pathways into careers in gaming and technology. Were developing our first title, a genre-defining metaverse mobile game, using Unity’s world-leading technology platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Our flagship title will be featured in the Made with Unity co-marketing program as well as benefit from working alongside Unity’s Operate Solutions Gaming Services team. This opportunity to work closely with Unity is a powerful boost to HiDef’s decision to self-publish as the benefits offered by Unity’s reach and industry insights in the mobile market will be a key contributor to HiDef titles’ success. This collaboration is about more than just aligning technology. HiDef and Unity share a dedicated conviction around empowering creators all over the world, no matter their background. The stories that shape the world the most are often those told by underrepresented voices. Giving rise to the voices from these communities and providing access to real-time 3D tools, creates paths towards economic opportunity and a richer understanding of the solutions that can make the world a better place.
Investor
Jan 2022
Care beyond the specialist clinic. Story Health uses virtual care and AI technology to bridge the gap between clinical data and patient reality, empowering specialists to optimize treatment for patients with serious illnesses.
Investor
Dec 2021
Currently in stealth mode, UpRoar Technologies is reimagining social media for a new generation. Founded by visionary and accomplished technology leaders, our proprietary platform invents new ways for creators to engage and form deeper connections. UpRoar harnesses the power of Gen Z to change the world — one tap at a time.
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Nov 2021
We are Stitch. We’re on a mission to make clinical trials better by measuring each patient’s experience. We listen to and amplify each patients voice. Feedback and reviews are key to making informed choices in everyday decision making, and we are bringing this to clinical trials. This is a huge opportunity to have a real impact on peoples lives. By making clinical trials faster and more efficient, we can get groundbreaking interventions to market more quickly, and improve the path to health for everybody.
Board Member
Feb 2021
Artera, a SaaS leader in digital health, transforms patient experience with AI-powered virtual agents (voice and text) for every step of the patient journey. Trusted by 900+ provider organizations — including specialty groups, FQHCs, large IDNs and federal agencies — engaging 100 million patients annually. Artera’s virtual agents support front desk staff to improve patient access including self-scheduling, intake, forms, billing and more. Whether augmenting a team or unleashing a fully autonomous digital workforce, Artera offers multiple virtual agent options to meet healthcare organizations where they are in their AI journey. Artera helps support 2B communications in 109 languages across voice, text and web. A decade of healthcare expertise, powered by AI.
Board Member
Dec 2020
For life sciences companies pursuing digital transformation, we offer the leading technology to rapidly develop, launch, and scale digital solutions. Our cloud-based platform is the trusted foundation for companion apps, algorithms, connected combination products, healthcare provider interfaces and other Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).   Our customers partner with BrightInsight to differentiate their therapies and harness unique real-world data to drive measurable value. With a track record of successful product launches that yield business and clinical ROI for top life sciences companies’ flagship brands in their largest markets, BrightInsight is the proven leader in this space.
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Dec 2020
Built is a leading provider of construction and real estate finance technology used by nearly half of the top 100 construction lenders in the U.S. By making it simple to connect and do business in real estate, Built enables increased efficiency, collaboration, transparency, and business agility—allowing customers to build and manage the communities around us more profitably and with more confidence. Built is used by hundreds of leading North American lenders and asset managers, and thousands of developers, home builders, and contractors. Built has a quarter of a trillion in real estate dollars being actively managed on its platform, representing approximately 10% of all U.S. construction spend. To learn more, visit www.getbuilt.com.
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2026
Board Member
May 2026
Klinic helps independent practitioners to launch, run, and grow private practices. We offer a combination of services — including integrating software, marketing, care coordination, billing, and credentialing — and we flexibly operate either under Klinics Group NPI or under an independent practices Group NPI. We aim to alleviate provider burnout and facilitate access to better patient care. By focusing on major emerging epidemics, we provide more immediate and more affordable care for the tens of millions of people in the U.S. struggling with addiction, depression, and obesity.
2025
Co-Founder & Partner
Oct 2025
At Proofpoint Capital, we partner with founders building the next generation of great technology companies. As former operators ourselves, we have scaled startups into billion-dollar businesses and now bring that experience, insight, and intensity to help companies go further and faster.
Board Member
Sep 2025
Lin Health partners with payers and providers to help people reclaim their lives from chronic pain through human-led, tech-enabled, highly personalized care. Our award-winning, comprehensive approach applies the latest neuroscience to treat conditions as diverse as migraines, IBS, and back and joint pain. We partner with health systems, clinics, and payers as an integrated extension of the care team to offer patients an affordable, immediately accessible, and non-pharmacological solution for highly prevalent neuroplastic pain. Our clinically validated intervention targets the nervous system by combining the most effective pain signaling techniques, incorporating multidisciplinary clinical guidance, high-frequency coaching, evidence-based digital resources, and proprietary technology to improve patient outcomes, patient and provider satisfaction, and clinic success. Our proprietary AI-based Care Platform provides rapid scalability and has served thousands of patients in the past 12-months. Lin Health was founded by industry veterans and is funded by leading investors.
2024
Investor
Jan 2024
Rego is an AI-powered waste diversion platform for large items, like furniture. Our mission is to build cleaner communities across the world by first reducing the amount of furniture that ends up in landfills or dumped on the street.
2023
Investor
Jun 2023
A healthy antioxidant energy drink mix containing no sugar, no sucralose and no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. Pureboost delivers pure micronutrients, multi-vitamins and antioxidants to give you an immediate boost any time of day. Each serving delivers a surge of 25 pH-balanced vitamins, minerals, herbs and amino acids, including turmeric, ginger, and Vitamin C. Plus our energy drink powder contains electrolytes for rapid hydration. We’re dads and moms who wanted a clean energy drink that could help us keep up with our kids. But we couldn’t find anything out there. Together, we created our own that agrees with your body and mind, keeping you alert and energized.
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