
Accredited Investor Podcast · 2023-07-19 · 48 min
"Last year we mostly focused on consumer products and food/ beverage. I have a syndicate group, called Elevator Syndicate. There is 846 members in my group, and we invested $44 million last year into food and beverage brands." Dan Fleyshman Dan Fleyshman is the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history. At the age of 23, after selling $15M of clothing in six department store chains and surpassing expectations with his $9.5M licensing deal with STARTER apparel, Dan launched the “Who’s Your Daddy” energy drink into 55,000 retail stores and military bases. He later went on to launch Victory Poker which became one of the top 5 poker brands internationally. In addition to being the Founder and Chairman of the social media agency Elevator Studio, Dan is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, having invested and advised over 36 companies, that range from mobile apps to tech companies to consumer brands. This success as an angel investor led Dan to create the Elevator Rolling Fund and the Elevator Syndicate Fund in partnership with Angelist to increase opportunities for both investors and entrepreneurs.