Dana Settle

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Greycroft · Joined 2006

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Biography

Dana Settle moved into venture capital after a career spanning M&A at Goldman Sachs and operations at Reuters, co-founding Greycroft in 2006 alongside veteran VC Alan Patricof and Ian Sigalow. She has been one of the firm's most consistently active investors in consumer payments and marketplaces, personally leading Greycroft's early seed bet on Venmo years before Braintree, which had acquired the payments app, sold to PayPal for $800 million in 2013. Settle also led Greycroft's early investment in The RealReal, the consignment marketplace that completed its own IPO in 2019, and has continued to anchor the firm's growth-stage fintech and marketplace investing as it has grown to more than $3 billion in assets under management.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

VenmoThe RealReal REALBird Global

Career Timeline

2000s
Works in M&A at Goldman Sachs and operations at Reuters before moving into venture capital.
2006
Co-founds Greycroft with Alan Patricof and Ian Sigalow.
2012
Leads Greycroft's early seed investment in Venmo.
2013
Braintree, which had acquired Venmo, is sold to PayPal for $800 million.
2019
The RealReal, an early Greycroft investment Settle led, completes its IPO.

Sources & References

Greycroft - Dana Settle ↗Wikipedia - Greycroft ↗