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Daniela is a founder, investor and advisor dedicated to building and growing impact-driven startups. With over a decade of experience working alongside executive teams at venture-backed startups and Fortune 500 companies, she focuses on team performance, leadership and innovation to transform businesses for good.

Driven by this mission, she serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Palm Venture Studios, providing second-chance capital alongside strategic and operational support to a portfolio of 30 diverse startups spanning healthcare, education, affordable housing, nutrition, medical debt relief, mental health, human connection, and beyond.

Daniela is a born-and-raised New Yorker, currently based in Austin, Texas, and lives part of the year in Nosara, Costa Rica where, together with her husband and friends, she is building her lifelong dream of an intergenerational, land-based community for living and dying well and a hub for longevity, culture, and the arts.

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“Daniela is a rare talent with the gift and skills to unlock insights and mobilize people to achieve a common goal.”

— Tony Bond, Chief Innovation Officer, Great Place to Work

Daniela has spent much of her career as a strategic facilitator, leadership advisor, and strategist to CEOs and leadership teams at venture-backed startups and global organizations including Salesforce, Autodesk, Shopify, IKEA, Splash, Rio Tinto, and KIND. She has designed and facilitated interactive experiences with audiences at Meta, Mindvalley, Conscious Capitalism, Great Place to Work, IDEO, and other organizations and gatherings around the world.

Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, culture, and team performance, helping leaders find clarity in complexity, align around big ideas, and turn vision into outcomes.

She draws on her background in management consulting, as well as degrees in the psychology and application of creativity in adults. This work led her to create PeerCircles™, a community insights and peer support platform now adopted by Palm portfolio companies, and Playstorming®, an AI-assisted ideation methodology with human creativity at its heart.

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