Dannie Herzberg
Partner at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
President
2025 - Current
Baseten is an AI infrastructure company that integrates machine learning into business operations, production, and processes.
Raised $60,000,000.00 from Charles Zedlewski, Greylock, basecase capital, IVP, Spark Capital, Lachy Groom and South Park Commons.
Lecturer in Management - Building & Scaling Sales
2025
Board Member
2023
AI-native CRM that brings customers into every decision
Advisor
2025 - 2025
Advising a small group of inspiring founders building world-class companies: Baseten, Lovable, Clay, Watershed, and Rowspace AI.
Board Member
2022 - 2025
Statsig helps you make the right decisions by vastly simplifying and automatically running 10x more tests to give you meaningful data insights.
Statsig is a Modern Feature Management and Product Experimentation platform
Raised $53,400,000.00 from Joe Morrissey, Microsoft Accelerator Bangalore, Madrona and Sequoia Capital.
Investor & Business Partner
2021 - 2025
Notion is an all-in-one workspace for teams that is re-imagining the operating system for work.
Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.
Raised $343,199,697.00 from Coatue, Shine Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Venture Partner
2023 - 2025
Board work & company-building: Helping Sequoia founders build & scale GTM.
Partner
2021 - 2023
Investment partner on Sequoia's Growth team, focused on helping the daring build legendary companies.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Head of Enterprise
2017 - 2021
Joined Slack at the inception of introducing sales into our PLG business. Built & scaled the self-serve / SMB, mid-market, and enterprise sales orgs across the Americas, with an emphasis on cross-functional partnership & striving for the right balance of self-serve onboarding, data-driven outreach and humans-in-the loop. Joined Slack when it was <$100m and left upon the time of acquisition by SalesForce when our revenue was >$1bn.
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.
Raised $1,391,100,000.00 from Light Street Capital, Meyer Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Sales & Product Leadership
2010 - 2015
Joined HubSpot when it was <100 employees <$10M revenue & based in a small co-working space in Cambridge, MA. Spent 5+ life-changing years building sales, opening SF, then joining product as Head of Platform & Partnerships to launch CRM & the app marketplace.
HubSpot develops cloud-based, inbound marketing software that allows businesses to transform the way that they market online.
Raised $100,500,000.00 from Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, CRV, Cross Creek and Altimeter Capital.
Management Consultant
2008 - 2010
Generalist role consulting in the industrials sector. Turns out, tech sales was a much better fit.