Daniel Newman

CEO at The Futurum Group. Chief Analyst at Futurum Research. Co-Host of The Six Five Podcast and The Six Five Summit. Co-founder of Signal65.

📍 Aurora, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member and Investor
Aug 2023
We make auto buying simple and stress free. Buy your next new car from your phone. When you know the vehicle you want, CarSnoop connects you with our network of auto dealerships to get you the best deal while you remain anonymous. CarSnoop leverages your good credit to get the car deal you deserve without the intrusive questions and back and forth negotiations. #carsnoop #anonymousbuyer #newwaytonbuycars #saveyoursaturday #stressless
mid stageAutomotive
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Jul 2023
Local Measure is a next-generation customer experience company. Winner of AWS Marketplace Partner of the Year - APJ, AWS Software partner of the year (Australia) and ICMI Best New Contact Center Technology 2021 Founded in 2014, Local Measure’s global team is spread across Sydney, Miami, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Singapore and serves some of the world’s largest hospitality, financial services, government and telecommunications businesses.
Owner, Principal, Board Member
Dec 2022
Futurum Network’s digital media platform provides daily news and analysis, combined with editorial insight and features. Utilizing a stream of high-quality editorial content and proprietary research, Futurum Network provides an educational conduit and online community for our clients to reach target audiences through a suite of curated digital media products and services, which include content creation, thought leadership, brand amplification, marketing consulting, digital events, and lead generation.
Experience · 16 entries
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2024
Co-Founder
Jan 2024
Signal65 provides holistic integrated technical marketing capabilities to our customers. With modern performance and validation labs across datacenter, edge and client segments, we build data-driven tools and assets to showcase material benefits of our customers products and solutions. The experience on HPC, AI, hybrid cloud analysis, storage, and HCI verticals from the team at Futurum Labs merges with a leadership team that brings a background in client solutions, platforms, AI, and graphics from a Fortune 100 compute leader. With a unique mix of industry veterans, engineering minded technicians and writers, and key trusted, independent voices, Signal65 can create and lead a narrative all the way from validation and testing, to messaging and marketing, and even thought leadership and story representation. We are here to ensure our partners become the signal of innovation in the noise of the technology markets.
2023
Board Member and Investor
Aug 2023
We make auto buying simple and stress free. Buy your next new car from your phone. When you know the vehicle you want, CarSnoop connects you with our network of auto dealerships to get you the best deal while you remain anonymous. CarSnoop leverages your good credit to get the car deal you deserve without the intrusive questions and back and forth negotiations. #carsnoop #anonymousbuyer #newwaytonbuycars #saveyoursaturday #stressless
mid stageAutomotive
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Jul 2023
Local Measure is a next-generation customer experience company. Winner of AWS Marketplace Partner of the Year - APJ, AWS Software partner of the year (Australia) and ICMI Best New Contact Center Technology 2021 Founded in 2014, Local Measure’s global team is spread across Sydney, Miami, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Singapore and serves some of the world’s largest hospitality, financial services, government and telecommunications businesses.
Owner, Principal, Board Member
May 2023
Visible Impact, an independent subsidiary of The Futurum Group, is a B2B marketing services firm specializing in full-funnel positioning and messaging, marketing content, and sales enablement that drives buyer interest and accelerates the conversion of prospects to satisfied customers. You have a story to tell—but telling it in a way that drives business results can be a challenge. Usually something is lacking: time, resources, ownership, expertise, buy-in, a compelling message, helpful imagery, consensus across stakeholders, or complete perspectives. Our mission at Visible Impact is not only to uncover your story, but to make it matter – to your stakeholders, your customers, your partners, and your bottom line. We help clients across multiple industries break through the marketing and sales status quo by crafting compelling, insight-based conversations that inspire profitable customer and partner engagements. Leveraging deep sales, marketing, and domain expertise, our team of content specialists uses a blend of strategic consensus and design thinking to develop messaging and materials—from awareness-level strategic presentations to sales training to white papers, social media posts, and nurturing campaigns—that support the full go-to-market continuum. This unique convergence of insights, consensus, and execution is what sets us apart – and makes a Visible Impact on your bottom line.
2022
Owner, Principal, Board Member
Dec 2022
Futurum Labs provides testing and validation services that enable our clients to create data driven materials and tools to highlight competitive advantages and differentiation to their IT customers. With a focus on IT datacenter technologies including servers, networking, storage and data management offerings, we are able to elevate discussions to focus on the value these products provide to your clients in meaningful and insightful ways.
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