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Dan Engel

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Smart Money Rating: 93 out of 100

Managing Director, Engel Ventures

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Engel Ventures
Title
Managing Director
Role
Managing partner
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Record updated 21 September 2026

About

Dan has been a B2B and B2C software entrepreneur since 1997, and has been a securities investor since 1991. Prior to being Founder & Managing Partner at Santa Barbara Venture Partners and being a Venture Capitalist at OCV Partners and NGEN Partners, Dan Engel was CEO & Co-Founder of FastSpring, a SaaS (software-as-a-service) company providing e-commerce store management for 3,000+ software vendors worldwide such as Adobe and TechSmith. Dan grew FastSpring’s revenue from $0 to over $120 million from 2005-2013 with total funding of thirty thousand dollars.

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Education
Dan graduated Tulane University in 1998 majoring in Finance.Source (opens in a new tab)

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