Dan Preiss

Partner

Before venture, Dan spent his career as an operator — in product management and growth roles at VC-backed SaaS and consumer companies across Washington, D.C. and San Francisco — and as a founder. He also worked in Boston Consulting Group's corporate ventures incubator with a focus on fintech. Dan joined Ardent at the firm's launch and has been promoted multiple times, most recently to Partner. His investments include Method Financial, Palla, PilotDesk, and e:Cue. He holds a B.S. in International Business and Economics from George Washington University.

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B.S. International Business & Economics, George Washington University

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Cadrian

a16z Scout Fund

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An AI-native services firm built to help companies automate operations and transform how they work—without the enterprise price tag.

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An AI-native services firm built to help companies automate operations and transform how they work—without the enterprise price tag.

Dan Preiss

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June 11, 2025

The AI Era: Evolve and Enable, or Evaporate

A rallying cry for CEOs to embrace AI, enable their teams, or risk becoming irrelevant.

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July 1, 2024

AI is already transforming organizations — including ours

The question is no longer if AI will transform these industries, but how quickly and effectively.

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January 30, 2024

The next generation of no-code is AI-native.

…and it will have a profound impact on the SaaS industry.

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June 7, 2022

The Consumer Fintech Revolution was Great, but the B2B Fintech Revolution Should Not be Overlooked.

Everyone has felt the effects of the Consumer Fintech Revolution. For venture investors, the aim of the game was to get a piece of the next Stripe. For everyday consumers, we will never remember a time before instant payments with Venmo and Paypal. Anyone can buy or sell almost anything online, all thanks to Shopify — which we really ended up needing during the pandemic. The world will never be the same because of the innovations that occurred during this radical shift to financial technology to aid consumer transactions. Unfortunately, business-to-business (B2B) transactions have not benefited from the same modernization…yet.

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