Daybreak Partners

ActiveVenture Capital

Updated: Jan 22, 2026 ·

About

We partner with entrepreneurs to help turn their vision into a successful company, primarily focused on the intersection of healthcare and technology as well as the future of work.

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Dec 1, 2024	Capstan Medical	$110.0M Series C	—	Eclipse Ventures
Aug 1, 2023	Capstan Medical	$31.0M Series B	—	Eclipse Ventures
Dec 1, 2022	aviva	$4.0M Seed	—	500 Startups, 500 Global, Kevin Hartz, Jana Messerschmidt, Carao Ventures, Future Shape, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Kaszek Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Newtopia VC, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin
May 1, 2022	Strive Asset Management	$20.0M Seed	—	Access Industries, AirAngels, Founders Fund, Human Capital, Lux Capital, Oak HC/FT, RallyCry Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Time BioVentures, Justin Rosenstein, Phil Libin
Mar 1, 2022	Chatterbox	$2.0M Seed	—	Kevin Hartz, Jana Messerschmidt, Future Shape, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Menlo Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger
Nov 1, 2021	Abwaab	$20.0M Series A	—	Kevin Hartz, Jana Messerschmidt, Future Shape, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Menlo Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin
Nov 1, 2021	Novoloop	$11.0M Series A	—	Kevin Hartz, Jana Messerschmidt, B Capital Group, Future Shape, GSV Acceleration, Hatteras Venture Partners, Human Capital, Menlo Ventures, Negev Capital, Paradigm, Precursor Ventures, Prithvi Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, SOSV, The Hit Forge, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin, Rand Hindi
Sep 1, 2021	The Org	$20.0M Series B	—	2xN, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Andreessen Horowitz, Jana Messerschmidt, Atreides Management, Cervin Ventures, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Electric Capital, Flexcap, Future Shape, General Catalyst, Giant Ventures, Goat Capital, Green Bay Ventures, GSV Acceleration, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Haun Ventures, Human Capital, Incisive Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Matrix, Menlo Ventures, Moving Capital, Paradigm, Precursor Ventures, rocketship.vc, Scalar Capital, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, SmartStart Fund, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Sound Ventures, Spark Capital, The Hit Forge, Third Kind Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, TQ Ventures, Venture Highway, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Y Combinator, Andrew Steinwold, Anjney Midha, Balaji Srinivasan, Ben Silbermann, Biz Stone, Brendan Iribe, Dylan Field, Josh Mohrer, Julia Hartz, Julian Wright, Justin David Blau, Mark Cuban, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin, Regan Bozman, Satya Nadella, Scott Belsky, Sravish Sridhar, Subrah Iyar, Tim Ferriss
Jul 1, 2021	Teikametrics	$40.0M Series B	—	Kevin Hartz, Jana Messerschmidt, Cultivation Capital, Future Shape, Gradient Ventures, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Intel Capital, Menlo Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Visionaire Ventures, WestWave Capital, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Didier Valet, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin
Jul 1, 2021	Octane AI	$5.0M Venture Round	—	Flex Capital, Founders Fund, Javelin Venture Partners, Time BioVentures, Justin Rosenstein, Michael Stoppelman
Jul 1, 2021	Teamflow	$35.0M Series B	—	Kevin Hartz, Act One Ventures, Jana Messerschmidt, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Coatue, Contrary Capital, CP Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, Future Shape, GSV Acceleration, Harlem Capital, High Alpha, Human Capital, IVP, KB Partners, M13, Mangrove Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, NextView Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, ThirdLove, Vamos Ventures, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Eric Ries, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin
Jun 1, 2021	The Beans	$2.0M Seed	—	Kevin Hartz, Jana Messerschmidt, Future Shape, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, One Planet Group, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin
Mar 1, 2021	Abwaab	$5.0M Seed	—	Kevin Hartz, Jana Messerschmidt, Future Shape, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Menlo Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin
Feb 1, 2021	Titan	$13.0M Series A	—	305 Ventures, 75 & Sunny, 9Yards Capital, Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Accel, Addition, Adjacent, Altimeter Capital, Alumni Ventures, Alven, Andreessen Horowitz, Jana Messerschmidt, Archetype, Banana Capital, Benchmark, Bond, Buckley Ventures, C2 Investment, Coatue, Contrary Capital, Converge Venture Partners, Drive Capital, Scott Hartley, Founders Fund, Frontier Ventures, Future Shape, General Catalyst, Goodwater Capital, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, IrishAngels, Lux Capital, Menlo Ventures, Motivate Ventures, NextView Ventures, Paradigm, Pioneer Fund, Playground Global, Portal Ventures, Precursor Ventures, RareBreed Ventures, Rebel Fund, Ribbit Capital, S28 Capital, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Smash Capital, Social Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Sound Ventures, Sozo Ventures, SQN Venture Partners, Sunset Ventures, SV Angel, ThirdLove, Tiger Global Management, Tribe Capital, Uncork Capital, Verified Capital, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Y Combinator, Alexis Bonillo, Alice Zhang, Antoine Martin, Biz Stone, Derrick Li, Guillaume Luccisano, Jared Leto, John Collison, Julia Hartz, Justin Mateen, Louis Beryl, Mark Cuban, Peter Reinhardt, Phil Libin, Rashaun Williams, Seth Goldman, Zander Lurie
Nov 1, 2020	Quo	$14.0M Series A	—	20VC, Kevin Hartz, Active Capital, Jana Messerschmidt, Bond, Buckley Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Cortical Ventures, Craft Ventures, Future Shape, General Catalyst, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Hustle Fund, Incisive Ventures, Kearny Jackson, Madrona Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Quona Capital, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Slow Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Zeev Capital, Allison Barr Allen, Biz Stone, Casey Neistat, Furqan Rydhan, Giovanni Gardelli, Jeff Morris, Julia Hartz, Justin Mateen, Manik Gupta, Matt Gibstein, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin, Scott Belsky, Siqi Chen, William Hockey
Oct 1, 2020	Atmos	$4.0M Seed	—	20VC, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Alex, Angel investor, Jana Messerschmidt, Animal Capital, Atomico, Avanta Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Blackbird Ventures Australia, Bora&Sons, Broadway Angels, Browder Capital, Canary Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Daffy, Felicis Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Flourish Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Future Shape, Geodesic Capital, GSV Acceleration, Hack VC, Hercules Capital, Human Capital, Infinite Niches, jLabs, JLL Spark, Kleiner Perkins, Ligature, Lobby Capital, Menlo Ventures, NextView Ventures, NFX, Norwest Venture Partners, Pear VC, Picus Capital, Plug & Play Ventures, Precursor Ventures, QED Investors, Redpoint Ventures, REMUS Capital, Runway Growth Capital, Sandalphon Capital, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley Connect, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Soma Capital, Stellation Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Stride VC, Theory Ventures, TQ Ventures, Unconventional Ventures, Underscore VC, Vera Equity, Visionaire Ventures, Vouch Insurance, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Bryce Hall, Chad Nitschke, Chafic Kazoun, Colin Carrier, Eliot Crowther, Francisco Larrain, Griffin Johnson, Ido Leffler, John M. Mueller, Jonathan Gheller, Julia Hartz, Julie Zhuo, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Lin, Loic Le Meur, Manish Patel, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin, Ron Pragides, Sahin Boydas, Sam Shank, Shervin Pishevar, Sri Batchu, Steven Sarowitz, Sung ho Choi, Zander Lurie
Oct 1, 2020	Remote	$35.0M Series A	—	468 Capital, 9Yards Capital, Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital), AME Cloud Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList, Jana Messerschmidt, Base Partners, CapitalG, Citi Ventures, Curie.Bio, Cyberstarts VC, Defy Partners, Floodgate, Forerunner Ventures, Founders Fund, Future Shape, General Catalyst, GSV Acceleration, David Krane, Hanabi Capital, Hardware Club, Heroic Ventures, Homebrew, Human Capital, Index Ventures, Inspired Capital, Menlo Ventures, Operator Partners, Paradigm, Pareto Holdings, Precursor Ventures, Prototype Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Root Ventures, RTP Global, S Capital VC, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, Smash Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Softbank Latin America Fund, Spark Capital, The Hit Forge, Thylacine Capital, TQ Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Verified Capital, Vine Ventures LP, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Ameet Patel, Biz Stone, Eric Ries, Gokul Rajaram, Grant Miller, Henry Kravis, Jared Leto, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin, Sahin Boydas, Stanley Druckenmiller, Steve Stoute, Troy Carter
Sep 1, 2020	Rune Labs	$5.0M Seed	—	Eclipse Ventures
Aug 1, 2020	Octane AI	$4.0M Seed	—	bloom venture partners, Bullpen Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Reach Capital, Time BioVentures, Andrew Gluck, Justin Rosenstein, Konstantin von Unger, Larry Braitman, Lawrence Braitman, Phil Libin, Tom Blaisdell
Jul 1, 2020	mmhmm	$5.0M Seed	—	Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Accomplice VC, Adverb Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Jana Messerschmidt, Vijaya Gadde, #ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS), Anorak Ventures, Arrive, Background Capital, Basecamp Fund, BEENEXT, Bloomberg Beta, C2 Investment, CoinFund, CRV, Eclipse Ventures, Expa, Forum Ventures, Founders Fund, FPV Fund, FundersClub, Future Shape, Gradient Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, GSV Acceleration, Brian Bendett, Joe Kraus, Harrison Metal, Human Capital, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, MATH Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Merian Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Monarch Collective, Moxxie Ventures, MZ, Next Play Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, Pillar VC, Plug & Play Ventures, Plum Alley Investments, Precursor Ventures, S2G Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SNR, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Soma Capital, SOSV, The Hit Forge, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, True Ventures, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Aaron Levie, Arash Ferdowsi, Augusto Marietti, Balaji Srinivasan, Ben Porterfield, Biz Stone, Colin Carrier, Dylan Field, Ellen Pao, Greg Brockman, Immad Akhund, Jason Henrichs, Jeff Chang, Jeremy Stoppelman, Jevon MacDonald, Joi Ito, Julia Hartz, Kevin Colas, Mark Pincus, Max Mullen, Mike Krieger, Phil Libin, Ryan Shea, Sundeep Madra, Tim Jurka
Jul 1, 2020	Cambrian Asset Management	$4.0M Seed	—	01 Advisors, 645 Ventures, AlleyCorp, B Capital Group, Crosscut Ventures, Dispersion Capital, DST Global, Great Oaks Venture Capital, IVP, Laurence Jones, MaC Venture Capital, Pareto Holdings, Predictive VC, Sapphire Ventures, Kevin Lin, Michael Ryan Dubin
Jul 1, 2019	The Org	$3.0M Seed	—	Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Andreessen Horowitz, Jana Messerschmidt, B Capital Group, Electric Capital, Founders Fund, Future Shape, Green Bay Ventures, GSV Acceleration, Human Capital, Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Moving Capital, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Susa Ventures, Third Kind Ventures, TQ Ventures, Visionaire Ventures, Wollef Ventures, WorkLife Ventures, Biz Stone, Chad Nitschke, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Josh Mohrer, Julia Hartz, Mike Krieger, Peter Reinhardt, Phil Libin, Tony Xu
Nov 1, 2016	Octane AI	$2.0M Seed	—	Reach Capital, Time BioVentures, Justin Rosenstein, Larry Braitman, Lawrence Braitman, Tom Blaisdell

Financial History

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Leadership Team

Key people at Daybreak Partners.

Nate Dalton

Managing Partner

Leadership Team

Key people at Daybreak Partners.

Nate Dalton

Managing Partner

Deep Dive

Daybreak Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2006 that partners with entrepreneurs to build successful companies, primarily focusing on the intersection of healthcare and technology as well as the future of work. Their investment philosophy centers on supporting early to growth-stage startups that develop transformative, cutting-edge solutions with the potential to disrupt traditional industries. By investing across seed, Series A, and Series B stages, they provide strategic capital and hands-on support to help entrepreneurs realize their vision, thereby impacting the startup ecosystem by fostering innovation in healthcare and tech sectors[1][3][4].

The firm was established with a mission to partner closely with entrepreneurs, leveraging a data-driven, operator-first approach to identify emerging trends and create value. Key partners, including William Augenbraun, bring extensive private equity experience, having executed over 30 investments across technology, healthcare, and consumer goods. This background has enabled Daybreak Partners to evolve its focus toward transformative technologies and market innovation, supporting companies through pivotal growth phases and notable exits in North America and Europe[1][3].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Combines venture capital and private equity strategies with an operator-first, data-driven approach to identify and nurture high-potential startups.
Network Strength: Deep connections in healthcare and technology sectors, facilitating strategic partnerships and market access for portfolio companies.
Track Record: Over 30 successful investments with several high-profile exits, demonstrating expertise in scaling early to growth-stage companies.
Operating Support: Hands-on involvement with entrepreneurs, offering mentorship and strategic guidance beyond capital infusion[1][4].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Daybreak Partners rides the trend of digital transformation in healthcare and the future of work, sectors experiencing rapid innovation driven by technological advances and shifting market demands. The timing is favorable due to increasing healthcare digitization, regulatory changes, and evolving workforce models accelerated by global events. By focusing on these areas, Daybreak Partners influences the ecosystem by enabling startups that address critical challenges and improve outcomes, thus contributing to the modernization of traditional industries[1][4].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Daybreak Partners is poised to deepen its impact by continuing to back startups at the forefront of healthcare technology and workforce innovation. Trends such as AI in healthcare, telemedicine, and hybrid work models will likely shape their investment focus. Their influence may expand as they leverage their operational expertise and network to help portfolio companies scale globally, potentially driving new industry standards and fostering sustainable innovation[1][4]. This forward momentum aligns with their founding mission to transform visionary ideas into successful, impactful companies.

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Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Combines venture capital and private equity strategies with an operator-first, data-driven approach to identify and nurture high-potential startups.
Network Strength: Deep connections in healthcare and technology sectors, facilitating strategic partnerships and market access for portfolio companies.
Track Record: Over 30 successful investments with several high-profile exits, demonstrating expertise in scaling early to growth-stage companies.
Operating Support: Hands-on involvement with entrepreneurs, offering mentorship and strategic guidance beyond capital infusion[1][4].