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Dan Flanegan

Founder | Product Leader | Advisor | Investor

San Diego, California

Education

Work Experience

  • Board Member

    2025

    IVRSTAR Foundation develops Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) multi-sensory special education content to keep students focused, engaged, and enable greater retention. We collaborate with subject matter experts, special education educators/teachers and their students, sponsors, universities, organizations, and administrators to deliver learning content designed for Dyslexia Learning Differences.

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2024

    • Product & business advisory that guides companies into the spatial computing and AI glasses future • Investment sourcing to support the growth and development of emerging technologies • Network introductions to foster collaboration and partnerships in the XR and AI sectors

2024

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2024

    100M+ creators have untold stories trapped by complexity and a lack of capital and connections. Lot2 is building interactive story tools to empower the next generation of creators!

  • Chapter President - San Diego

    2024

    The VR/AR Association (VRARA) is an international organization designed to foster collaboration between solution providers and end-users that accelerates growth, fosters research and education, helps develop industry best practices, connects member organizations, and promotes the services of member companies.

  • Strategic Advisor

    2024

    Let's control your smart glasses with a better UX! TapXR was designed to help humans adapt to the next generation of personal computing.

2019 - 2023

  • Product Management, XR Ecosystem

    2021 - 2023

    Product management for the Snapdragon Spaces XR developer platform, developer ecosystem and Metaverse Fund. Spaces paves the way to a new frontier of spatial computing, empowering developers to create metaverse experiences that adapt to the spaces around us. Learn more at spaces.qualcomm.com

  • ClayAIR, Product

    2019 - 2021

    Acquired by Qualcomm in November 2021, ClayAIR offers platform agnostic hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions with breakthrough computer vision, machine learning and advanced cognitive science. We enable hand interactions with XR virtual content, smart devices and digital interfaces. No controller, no touch.

2021 - 2023

  • VP Product

    2021 - 2023

2014 - 2021

  • Product Advisor (former Vice President Product)

    2014 - 2021

    My Total Health was founded to empower patients to monitor, manage, and understand their symptoms for a range of conditions.

2020 - 2021

  • Product Advisor

    2020 - 2021

    Sema is bringing insights on your code, development process and team that result in reduced code maintenance costs and time. Sema offers several products including Sema Maintenance Platform for daily insights, Sema Health Check for a complete analysis of your codebase and Sema Diligence Report for insights into software acquisition deals.

2014 - 2021

  • Co-Founder

    2014 - 2021

    Butter is an amazing app for making new friends anywhere on Earth. With over 2 million downloads and 2 billion page views, users spend 170 minutes per month on Butter.