Dan Beldy

Bio

DAN BELDY is a Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures. Dan has spent the last 20 years in technology and finance as an investor, entrepreneur and operator. Dan currently serves on the boards of Fanzter, Move Networks, Baynote, Greystripe, Passenger, and Vobile, and is actively involved with FreeWheel . Dan's prior investments include Playdom, acquired by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). Prior to Steamboat, Dan was a co-founder and Managing Director of Plainview Capital, an innovative family of fundamental value investment funds that leverage a proprietary software platform, Plainview Analytics™. Before Plainview, Dan was an associate and partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Early in his career Dan was an officer and an F/A-18 Hornet jet instructor pilot for the U.S. Navy, completing over 275 aircraft carrier landings in tours of duty with the Atlantic Fleet. Focusing on early stage software investments, Dan was involved with several successful, growing companies as an investor / advisor / board member including Employease, acquired by ADP (NASDAQ: ADP), Technorati, Starmine, Method Home and Maxion Technologies. Dan received a BS in Computer Science as a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy and received an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School.