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Danny Rimer
Danny Rimer is an investor and partner at Index Ventures. He opened the firm’s London office in 2002 and the San Francisco office in 2012, before returning to London in 2018. He has been ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s top investors for over a decade.Danny has always been drawn to working with founders who share his passion for the power of design and his fascination with the intersection of technology and culture. This has informed investments in Figma, Dropbox, Discord, Etsy, Farfetch, Glossier, Patreon and many more. Of his role as an investor, he says: “Our job is spotting someone trying to spark lightning in a bottle working out of their garage and we have to figure out whether they’re the right people to do this, that they have been placed on this Earth to go after this global ambition. We then work tirelessly to help them get there.”Danny’s interest in technology began when he moved to the West Coast at the birth of Web 1.0 in the 90s. Taking a job as an underwriting analyst at Hambrecht & Quist (now owned by JP Morgan), Danny established the boutique investment bank’s internet sector equity research group and worked on the IPOs of Amazon, Netscape, Verisign and more. It was this experience that ignited a desire to work directly with those building companies, and he soon became a General Partner at The Barksdale Group in 1999, before moving to Index three years later.
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