Dan Burstein founded Millennium Technology
Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners in 2004.
He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds.
Dan has made personal venture capital investments since 1983, when he first worked
as a consultant in Silicon Valley. He began making institutional venture capital
investments as the Chief Investment Officer for PS Capital funds in the second
half of the 1990s. Dan articulated and led the investment thesis of those funds,
focusing on early stage companies that were building backbone infrastructure
for the Internet and enhancing the security, reliability, and user experience
of the web. These funds experienced extraordinary returns available in that time
period for this investment thesis.
Before founding Millennium, Dan was Senior Advisor at The Blackstone
Group, where he worked for 12 years during the period when Blackstone defined
the contemporary private equity business. Over the course of his career, he has
served as a consultant to the CEOs and senior executives of major global corporations
including Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.
Over the last decade, Dan has been on more than a dozen public and private company
boards. He currently serves as a director of Applied Minds, a leading-edge research
and development lab in the Millennium Technology Ventures portfolio, as well
as a director of Transforma Acquisition Group, Inc. (AMEX:
TAQ),
a publicly traded acquisition company.
Dan has been a forum fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos and has been
honored many times for his books and journalistic work, including awards from
the Overseas Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi. He has emerged as an expert on PIPE
transactions for venture capital investors, has spoken at many conferences on
this subject, and contributed a chapter to a Bloomberg Press-published
book on PIPEs.
Dan is the bestselling author of a dozen books on new technology trends, global
economic issues, and popular culture. Among his pathbreaking books are Yen! a
1988 book about the rise of Japanese financial power; Road Warriors, a
1995 book about the birth of digital media and the Internet; Big Dragon,
a 1998 book about the China’s future; Secrets of the Code; a 2004
guidebook to the Da Vinci Code that was on the New York Times bestseller list
for six months; and Blog! a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0
businesses and social media. His books have been published in more than 32 languages
and several have been turned into documentary films.
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