Daniel Vannoni

Entrepreneurial Doer and Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020
VC🌍 United States
2
Total investments
1
Early stage
1
Mid stage
0
Late stage
9y
Years active

Portfolio

2 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Investor
2020
Tertill Corporation is a consumer products company based in the greater Boston area. Founded by Roomba inventor Joe Jones and veteran roboticist Rory MacKean, Tertill Corporation is headed by Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot. Tertill Corporations flagship product, Tertill, is the worlds first robot designed to autonomously weed home gardens. Tertill is weatherproof and solar-powered so it is able to stay in the garden all season long. The new Tertill Garden Program provides the know how to grow a “WOW” raised bed vegetable garden. The annual plan includes a free soil test, customized care plan featuring Tertill Organics fertilizers delivered to your door, a smartphone app that organizes your garden info, and personalized support for all your gardening questions. Tertill doesnt just kill weeds, it actually prevents them from growing. Tertills specially-designed wheel churn the surface of the soil killing pre-emergent weeds. Any weeds that do manage to grow get chopped down with Tertills string trimmer until they run out of energy and die. The Cornell School of Agriculture found Tertills method of weeding as effective as hand weeding.
mid stageManufacturing
Investor
2017
Droplette is a technology company revolutionizing the skincare industry with its breakthrough device. We are driven by the belief that technology has the power to improve health and wellness, and we are dedicated to creating products and solutions that improve upon the way things have always been done, starting with skincare. Traditional topicals can only do so much. The Droplette device and capsules use our enhanced aerosol technology to deliver active ingredients under the skin - where they can actually work. Droplette was founded in 2017 by two MIT-trained engineers. Over the past 3 years, we have developed the technology and formulations that address consumers’ most common skin concerns. Today, we are a diverse set of domain experts--ranging from engineers and biologists, to dermatologists and skincare industry veterans-- dedicated to helping our customers achieve their skin care goals. #dropletteskin
early stageManufacturing
Experience · 10 entries
All (10)
Investments (2)
Founder (4)
2020
Investor
2020
Tertill Corporation is a consumer products company based in the greater Boston area. Founded by Roomba inventor Joe Jones and veteran roboticist Rory MacKean, Tertill Corporation is headed by Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot. Tertill Corporations flagship product, Tertill, is the worlds first robot designed to autonomously weed home gardens. Tertill is weatherproof and solar-powered so it is able to stay in the garden all season long. The new Tertill Garden Program provides the know how to grow a “WOW” raised bed vegetable garden. The annual plan includes a free soil test, customized care plan featuring Tertill Organics fertilizers delivered to your door, a smartphone app that organizes your garden info, and personalized support for all your gardening questions. Tertill doesnt just kill weeds, it actually prevents them from growing. Tertills specially-designed wheel churn the surface of the soil killing pre-emergent weeds. Any weeds that do manage to grow get chopped down with Tertills string trimmer until they run out of energy and die. The Cornell School of Agriculture found Tertills method of weeding as effective as hand weeding.
mid stageManufacturing
2017
Investor
2017
Droplette is a technology company revolutionizing the skincare industry with its breakthrough device. We are driven by the belief that technology has the power to improve health and wellness, and we are dedicated to creating products and solutions that improve upon the way things have always been done, starting with skincare. Traditional topicals can only do so much. The Droplette device and capsules use our enhanced aerosol technology to deliver active ingredients under the skin - where they can actually work. Droplette was founded in 2017 by two MIT-trained engineers. Over the past 3 years, we have developed the technology and formulations that address consumers’ most common skin concerns. Today, we are a diverse set of domain experts--ranging from engineers and biologists, to dermatologists and skincare industry veterans-- dedicated to helping our customers achieve their skin care goals. #dropletteskin
early stageManufacturing
2013
Chairman and Co-Founder
2013
Novopyxis is an award-winning biotechnology company dedicated to the development of therapeutics and medical devices. Novopyxis’ flagship drug was developed using in-house proprietary mathematical algorithms and has been validated across several different in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models. It activates a key anti-inflammatory receptor called the AT2R and is both cardioprotective and neuroprotective. Our therapeutic was recently awarded an orphan designation for "Pediatric Cardiomyopathy" from the FDA. Droplette was recently spun out from Novopyxis (www.droplette.io) and is focused on development of a patented medical device for delivery of large molecules, DNA/RNA, and proteins deep through skin, tissue, and cells. We are currently partnered with Leo Pharma for development of our device for medical dermatology applications and have won several awards: - 2015 Graduate of MassCONNECT program via MassBio - 2015 Amgen Golden Ticket Winner - 2014 Mass Challenge Finalist - Winner of 2014 CASIS-Boeing Prize for Technology in Space - Second place winner in 2015 M2D2 New Ventures Competition
early stageBiotechnology
QuackTax LLC
Co-Founder
2013
2012
Founder and Chief Doer
2012
Housequarters is a full service homeownership firm, focused on providing ALL the products and services you could ever need or want for your home from the day you buy to the day you sell, and every day in between. We offer full service, contracting, real estate brokering, and insurance brokering services (in Mass.) and a number of other related products and services that you will find a need for along the way. In addition we have created a custom condo management solution, geared toward smaller condo associations and HOAs, providing better information and transparnecy. Housequarters also helps with condo association management and residential property advisory services, as well as virtual handyman services. Our team is aided by our proprietary technology tools that help us more efficiently complete all tasks related to your home.
early stageReal Estate
Show all 10 entries ↓