Daniel V. Leff

Daniel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Waverley Capital. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Luminari Capital (the predecessor of Waverley Capital and a top-performing media-focused venture capital fund that he founded in 2014), and CEO of Waverley Capital Acquisition Corp. 1 (NYSE:WAVC).

Prior to co-founding Waverley Capital and founding Luminari Capital, Daniel was a Partner with Globespan Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, Daniel worked for Sevin Rosen Funds and Redpoint Ventures. He also previously held engineering, marketing, and strategic investment positions with Intel Corporation. Daniel has been an investor in a multitude of media companies including 1Mainstream (sold to Cisco Systems), Art19 (sold to Amazon), Elemental Technologies (sold to Amazon), Endel, fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO), Matterport (NASDAQ:GHVI), MikMak, MOVL (sold to Samsung), Novel Effect, PlutoTV (sold to Viacom), Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU), The Athletic (sold to The New York Times), Wink, Wondery (sold to Amazon) and others.

Daniel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from The University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. Daniel also earned an MBA from The UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, where he was an Anderson Venture Fellow and where he currently serves on the Board of Visitors.