Danny Bernstein

DART Advisor

Founder & Managing Partner, HawkTower

Danny Bernstein is the Founder and Managing Partner of HawkTower, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on underleveraged California. HawkTower invests in scalable early-stage technology companies that address real-world opportunities and imperatives outside traditional entrepreneurial patterns and investment behaviors.
Prior to HawkTower, Danny spent 20 years in Silicon Valley, holding executive roles at Google and Microsoft. Danny successfully sold Meebo, a Sequoia Capital-backed Web 2.0 startup, to Google in 2012. At Google, he ran business development, strategic partnerships, and developer programs for products like Google Search, Google Assistant, Google Research, Chrome/Web Platform, Google Identity and Sign-In, Firebase, and other products. At Microsoft, led critical product lines for Microsoft Teams.
Danny is an alum of UC Davis and Stanford GSB. He lives in Monterey County with his wife, kids, and puppy, River.