The Dart Board with Daniel Dart

by Rock Yard Ventures · English

Daniel Dart is the founder and General Partner of Rock Yard Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm focused on tech across core industries. Join Daniel as he sits down with some of the world's greatest investors, operators, and entrepreneurs as they pull back the curtain on tech, venture, and business.

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Latest episodes

Matt Kraning | Menlo Ventures - From DARPA to a $1.25B exit, why founders need to be right instead of popular, and the line every mediocre VC hides behind

9 Sep 2026

39m

Keri Findley | Tacora Capital - On asset-based lending, kissing a lot of frogs, and working hard to compound through tough times

26 Aug 2026

35m

Ted Schlein | Ballistic Ventures, Kleiner Perkins - On generational firm building, 40 years in cyber, and why you have to earn the right

19 Aug 2026

42m

Joanne Chen | Foundation Capital - On The Great Reorg, learning to let go of outcomes, and why every fund has to stand for something

12 Aug 2026

34m

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Matt Kraning | Menlo Ventures - From DARPA to a $1.25B exit, why founders need to be right instead of popular, and the line every mediocre VC hides behind

Matt Kraning (Menlo Ventures) discusses his path from Stanford PhD to DARPA data science in Afghanistan, building Expanse into an Attack Surface Management category, and then shifting to venture…

9 Sep 2026 · 39m · 21 chapters

Keri Findley | Tacora Capital - On asset-based lending, kissing a lot of frogs, and working hard to compound through tough times

Tacora Capital’s asset-based lending strategy for venture-backed fintech/insurtech (and related sectors), how the firm is bucketed with LPs, and how Carrie Findley built the team and expanded into…

26 Aug 2026 · 35m · 21 chapters

Ted Schlein | Ballistic Ventures, Kleiner Perkins - On generational firm building, 40 years in cyber, and why you have to earn the right

Ted Schlein discusses generational firm-building in venture capital, his 40 years in cybersecurity, and how investors must “earn the right” to be expensive capital.

19 Aug 2026 · 42m · 15 chapters

Joanne Chen | Foundation Capital - On The Great Reorg, learning to let go of outcomes, and why every fund has to stand for something

Joanne Chen, General Partner at Foundation Capital, discusses venture as a human-psychology exercise, Foundation’s early-stage thesis (seed/Series A; AI and blockchain; investing pre-product/market…

12 Aug 2026 · 34m · 16 chapters