Danny Rimer

Danny Rimer
Born September 28, 1970
Canada
Residence London, England
Alma mater Harvard University
Occupation Venture capitalist

Danny Rimer (born September 28, 1970) is a partner at Index Ventures, a company founded by his brothers David and Neil, and Neil's partner Giuseppe Zocco.[1] He established the firm's London office in 2002 and the San Francisco office in 2012, and has become a leading voice[2] on venture capital in Europe and Silicon Valley.

Early life

Rimer was born in Canada, but grew up in Geneva, Switzerland.[3] He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature.[1] After graduating, Rimer moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

Career

While in the Bay Area, Rimer and some friends began a company to digitize images of famous artwork and sell the downloads. They made exclusive deals with galleries such as the Louvre and the Uffizi Gallery to commercialize the images.[1]

In 1994, Rimer joined Hambrecht & Quist (now owned by JP Morgan), where he began an Internet sector equity research group.[4] He was managing director and underwriting analyst for Amazon, Netscape and Verisign.[1] He helped to take Netscape public.[3]

Rimer became a general partner of The Barksdale Group in 1999, where he invested in a dozen companies including Crossgain (acquired by BEA Systems), Ofoto (rebranded as Kodak) and Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft), before joining Index in 2002 to establish the London office. He later co-founded the San Francisco office in 2012 with Mike Volpi.[5]

In his early years at Index, Rimer made a series of notable investments in infrastructure and services companies such as Skype, MySQL and Last.fm.[2] More recently he led the firm’s investments in Patreon, Good Eggs. Anki, Boku, Dropbox, Etsy, Factual, Farfetch, Flipboard, 1stdibs, Nasty Gal, RightScale, and Viagogo.[6] He also serves on the board of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres [7] and SFMOMA.[8]

Rimer has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top global VCs [9][10] four times and to Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 list of business’s rising young stars.[2] He is a fixture at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, an annual gathering of business leaders, political figures, and major figures in the philanthropic and cultural spheres.[11]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Forston, Danny (11 June 2006). "Danny Rimer: In a nation of shopkeepers, great start-ups don't fly off the shelf". The Independent (London). Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "40 Under 40: Danny Rimer". CNNMoney (Cable News Network). Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Heilemann, John (8 August 2007). "The venture capital king of Europe". CNNMoney (Cable News Network). Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  4. ↑ "8 Rising VC Stars: Danny Rimer". CNNMoney. Cable News Network. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  5. ↑ Ashton, James (9 August 2013). "Danny Rimer from Index Ventures: The Silicon Valley Exile Who Sees A New Internet Gold Rush On the Way". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Danny Rimer". Index Ventures. Index Ventures. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Board Committees at Maggie's". Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres. The Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  8. ↑ "Board of Trustees". SFMOMA. San Francisco Museum of Art. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Danny Rimer". Midas List (Forbes.com, Inc.). Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  10. ↑ "Danny Rimer". Midas List (Forbes.com, Inc.). Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "Sun Valley: Where the money is". MediaFile (Thomson Reuters). 8 July 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2011.