Warm Intro: Dani Loftus
In venture, a warm intro carries trust across a network. This Warm Intro series hopes to do the same. Meet the people shaping ADIN: investors, scouts, founders, and friends. Each profile is an invitation to meet someone worth knowing and expand your taste.
Meet Dani Loftus. She’s an ADIN Scout (apply here), submitting promising startups for evaluation (and 10% net profit for him if it gets funded. She’s also the chief officer of TRIBUTE BRAND and the founder of This Outfit Does Not Exist. Her curations show a hypermodern blend of curiosity, spanning across various realities. Here’s Dani’s picks:
Best article you’ve read recently?
Boarding Group One by Joan Westenberg
Top 3 podcasts?
Radio Atlantic by The Atlantic
Productivity hacks?
As played out as it sounds, I wake up before 6AM and spent the first 2+ hours of the morning without checking my phone. This gives me time to do deep thinking/ writing undisturbed and gives me a feeling of achievement-based momentum that propels the rest of my day.
Who’s one founder everyone should be paying more attention to?
Los and Marc from Danger Testing.
Who’s an artist you’d love to commission?
I’ve already commissioned Matthew Stone so it would have to be Anna Uddenberg.
What do you collect?
Clothes, people, and occasionally art.
Industry/niche you’re most excited about?
Social capital.
About ADIN
ADIN is a highly AI focused pursuit (bringing algorithmic venture with the full force of AI agents). ADIN is also just as much about the people. We’re building a network where early-stage funding happens faster, fairer, and with more incentives for the people on the bleeding edge. If you want to be part of that, apply here to be a scout or investor and follow ADIN as we keep opening doors.