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    Dan Flanegan

    Dan Flanegan

    Venture-backed product and business leader focused on product strategy and team scaling in tech. Specializing in supporting startups in XR, AI, and SaaS.

    Entrepreneur San Diego University of Califor...
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    Experience
    Tap Systems
    Tap Systems
    Strategic Advisor 2024 - Present (about 2 years)
    Let's control your smart glasses with a better UX! TapXR was designed to help humans adapt to the next generation of personal computing.
    Qualcomm
    Qualcomm
    XR Product Management 2019 - 2023 (over 4 years)
    Product management for the Snapdragon Spaces XR developer platform, developer ecosystem and Metaverse Fund. Spaces paves the way to a new frontier of spatial computing, empowering... more developers to create metaverse experiences that adapt to the spaces around us. Joined through the acquisition of my previous company in November 2021, ClayAIR offers platform agnostic hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions with breakthrough computer vision, machine learning and advanced cognitive science. We enable hand interactions with XR virtual content, smart devices and digital interfaces. No controller, no touch.
    Butter
    Butter
    Co-Founder & CEO 2012 - 2014 (about 2 years)
    Collaborated with UI / UX lead to create a unified cross platform friend discovery application. Managed mobile development teams achieving five successful platform launches... more in five months. Launched private messaging in under 10 days increasing user sessions by 500%. Grew app to over 1 million registered users and 1 billion page views on iOS & Android. Completed the top ranked Mucker Lab accelerator and raised $500K in seed funding.
    Founder
    Soapbox Mobile
    Employee
    Caere, ClickAction, Storm Technology, Soapbox Mobile, Brand Anywhere, My Total Health, Snowball Money, VRARA, Butter, Qualcomm, Tap Systems
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    The Venue Report, Spritzr, My Total Health, greenlist, MuckerLab, BizBookz, UCSD
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    Snapdragon Spaces
    Integrated platform and ecosystem for XR based device makers
    Product Management · Join Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform to unlock wearable XR with industry-leading technology, a cross-device SDK, and an… · More open ecosystem.

    Led perception stack product and partner management.
    Smart Crypto Investment Automation Platform
    A NEO Bank Built on Decentralized Finance
    The world's first Smart Crypto Investment Automation (SCIA) Platform.
    Michael J. Bucci
    Vitaliy Neskuba
    Parul Gujral
    With Parul Gujral, Vitaliy Neskuba , Michael J. Bucci
    Butter - Make Friends
    Latest version of the Butter Android App (beta)
    Make new friends anywhere on Earth!
    Chris Kansaki
    With Chris Kansaki
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    XR perception stack product and partner management at Qualcomm. Launched multiple features across numerous XR reference designs from VR, to MR and AR. Worked directly with launch partners.

    At ClayAIR managed the product development and launch of a ML based hand and gesture tracking SDK eventually leading to the successful acquisition of the company by Qualcomm.

    Grew a social app tp over 1.5M users across iOS and Android, generating billions of mobile page views. Raised seed round from highly respected LA and Bay Area investors.

    Co-Founder and CEO at Soapbox Mobile, a SaaS mobile CRM platform. Built a product, team, Fortune 500 customer list & revenue! Acquired in 2007.

    Raised over $15 million in private equity and VC funding with two exits. Relationships with top tier VCs and angels.

    Speaker: The Infinity Festival, The VR/AR Association, The UC Irvine Graduate Computer Science Program, The MIT Enterprise Forum & Digital Hollywood. Festival screened filmmaker.

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    Skills
    Product Marketing Product Development Business Development Mobile Application Design Mobile Advertising Mobile Strategy Lean Startups Facebook Platform Mobile Marketing Community Building User Experience Design Growth Hacking Product Management Fundraising Project Management UI/UX Design Advertising Customer Relationship Management Equity Management Messaging Private Equity WEB
    Locations
    San Francisco Silicon Valley Los Angeles San Diego
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