Daniel Kranzler

Bio

Mr Kranzler has spent the past twenty-five years running, supporting and financing entrepreneurial companies in the high-tech arena. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley, in psychology and counseling, Mr Kranzler has employed his skills in facilitating communications to help organizations build and deliver a unified vision for their companies and products. In 1980, Mr Kranzler founded Beepers Northwest and built it into the largest paging company in the Northwest. The company was purchased by McCaw Cellular Communications, where Mr Kranzler became the first General Manager for the cellular and paging operations. He worked as part of the team that built the cellular group from eighteen employees to over 1000 in the first year of operation through acquisition of additional territory licenses, consolidating numerous markets and rapid customer growth under the McCaw CellularOne banner. In 1996 Mr Kranzler became president and CEO of AccessLine Technologies Inc, a software company that originated the One Person: One Number concept. After building the Company to a presence in eleven countries, Mr Kranzler retired from direct operating control and remained as chairman and board member for AccessLine and several other companies. Mr Kranzler is currently president of Kirlin Ventures, a group of early stage venture funds, as well as Managing Partner of eFund LLC. In his role as investor and advisor, Mr Kranzler has been involved in over 20 startups as an advisor and invested in over 40 companies in the communications and Internet space. Companies in which Mr Kranzler has invested have achieved combined equity values of over twenty billion dollars.