Summary
Daniel Njoo is a director-level investments and business development professional with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience spanning web3 VC, strategy for energy assets, and product/data roles at tech startups. Trained in Computer Science and Statistics at Amherst College, he blends technical fluency with deal-sourcing and diligence—currently finding and managing opportunities across rocks, technology, and impact at Benchmark Group. He previously helped run early-stage sourcing and community diligence at baboon.vc while hands-on roles at Gojek and AiFi sharpened his data and ML instincts. Based in Jakarta, Daniel writes a tech/business newsletter and keeps disciplined reading notes, reflecting a habit of rapid learning and synthesis. Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments (from ambulance calls to founding-stage VC workflows), he brings practical rigor and curiosity to bridge technical evaluation and commercial strategy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Amherst College
Cambridge Pre-U and IGCSEs, Cambridge Pre-U and IGCSEs at Winchester College
English, Chinese, Indonesian