Dan Elitzer is a crypto founder and early-stage venture investor who co-founded Nascent, a firm building and investing across open markets and permissionless technology. Dan Elitzer's Twitter Score is 449 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #467 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Dan Elitzer co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, an early-stage internet venture firm that has created, invested, and incubated since 2015. While there, he helped launch YAM Finance, though his involvement with that project is no longer active. Dan Elitzer also co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and the MIT FinTech Club. During his time at MIT, he and Jeremy Rubin led an initiative to distribute $100 in bitcoin to all 4,528 MIT undergraduates, a project reported by Time as funded with $500,000.
Dan Elitzer now focuses on Nascent, which pursues both venture and liquid strategies in crypto. Dan Elitzer has accumulated 25,177 followers as of July 2026 and has made 10,106 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 257 accounts, with 487 total mentions.
As an early-stage investor, Dan Elitzer has backed Syndicate and Union.
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