Dani Fontanesi, Esq.
About Dani Fontanesi, Esq.
**NEW** I'm launching a legal accelerator! For more info, visit Legal-Up.com. In my daily law practice, I act as external general counsel for Series A to Series C startups and tech companies. I also support in-house legal teams at large enterprises and SMBs. I have the pleasure of working with early stage and rapid growth companies backed by some of the top investors in the world -- Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Redpoint, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher's fund), Bain Capital Ventures, Greylock, and Founders Fund (Peter Thiel's fund), to name a few. These are some of the same investors that launched Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Instacart, Google, Apple, OfferUp, Robinhood, LinkedIn, Stripe, Oracle, Okta, WhatsApp, DoorDash, Instacart, Airbnb, Lyft, Pinterest, and Carta. I've worked with, or across the table from, nearly every Silicon Valley company you can name, along with hundreds of enterprises and major companies. Prior to founding Fontanesi Law Firm / Advisory, I served as lead in-house counsel of an Andreessen Horowitz portfolio company in San Francisco. Throughout my career, I also served as Associate General Counsel of a multibillion dollar, publicly traded, renewable energy company and worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions / Capital Markets team of an internationally reputed law firm. I received my Juris Doctorate from a Top 20 law school, where I was the recipient of the Scholar in Law Award, a $90,000 scholarship. My non-working hours are dedicated to my family, and to organizations like the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, Padres Pedal the Cause, and the Luau & Legends of Surfing Invitational. About my firm: www.FontanesiLegal.com About me: https://medium.com/authority-magazine/female-disruptors-danielle-fontanesi-on-the-three-things-you-need-to-shake-up-your-industry-ed228a58f16b Public Speaker. Media Commentator. Lobbyist. Philanthropist. Connector.