Danielle Strachman is a co-founder and General Partner at 1517 Fund. See contact routes.
Danielle Strachman is a co-founder and General Partner at 1517 Fund, where she leads investments in early-stage technology startups founded by college dropouts, renegade students, and deep-tech scientists. Her investment thesis targets the R&D, idea, and seed stages across software, hardware with data, deep tech, biotech, and sci-fi-inspired technologies, primarily in the United States. The firm typically makes initial investments ranging from $50,000 to $1,000,000, with an average pre-seed check size of approximately $400,000, often acting as an early supporter rather than a traditional lead. Notable portfolio companies include Ethereum (founded by Vitalik Buterin, whom Strachman identified as a teenager via the Thiel Fellowship), Figma (founded by Dylan Field), and Cents, a laundry software platform that raised $40M in Series B funding. Strachman’s distinctive point of view treats venture capital as “belief capital” for young builders pursuing sci-fi-level ideas, a philosophy she operationalizes through the 1517 Medici Project, which grants $1,000 no-strings awards to teens. Prior to 1517, she was a founding director of the Thiel Fellowship alongside
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