Danny Rimer joined Index Ventures in 2002 and established the firm’s London office. His investment interests include Internet infrastructure software and services.
He currently serves on a number of boards including Astley Clarke, Boku, FON, Oanda, Sky (BSY), Stardoll, Rightscale, Trialpay and Viagogo. He is also a director of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centers. He previously was a director of KVS (Symantec), Last.fm (CBS), Lovefilm, MySQL (Sun), Neoteris (Juniper) and Skype (eBay).
Prior to joining Index, Danny was a general partner of The Barksdale Group, where he invested in a dozen companies including CrossGain (BEA), Ofoto (Kodak) and TellMe (Microsoft). Prior to joining The Barksdale Group, Danny was Managing Director in Hambrecht & Quist’s (JP Morgan) Equity Research Group and was responsible for the firm’s Internet practice. At H&Q, Danny was the underwriting analyst for companies including Amazon, Netscape, and Verisign. He also sponsored direct investments in over 20 companies.
He holds an A.B from Harvard College.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| TweetDeck | 5/10 | Series B | $3.5M | 7 |
| Factual | 2/10 | Seed | $1M | 14 |
