Daniel Scrivner

Head of Design

2023

$1B+ Valuation | 10M Weekly Active Parents | YCombinator Top 100. At ClassDojo, I lead a team of 35 across product design, brand, marketing creative, game design, and social. We’re hiring across the board — come join the team: https://www.classdojo.com/jobs/

Founder & Partner

2018

In 2018, I founded Ligature: The Design VC with Dan Becker. We're an early and growth stage venture fund. Our investments include Public.com, AtoB, Safara, ZIINA, and Kick. We invest and then help founders build design into the DNA of their company from Day One.

Investor Fellow

2020 - 2023

In 2020, I was accepted into the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) as an investor as part of their global community of 500+ entrepreneurs and investors. It's been an incredible opportunity to invest in and get to know New Zealand's startup community.

Advisor

2015 - 2023

Since 2015, I've been an advisor to Designer Fund across all three of their venture funds. I love working with founders in Designer Fund's portfolio and mentoring design leaders in their network.

CEO in Residence

2019 - 2022

In early 2019, I joined Tiny to lead the turnaround of Flow—a productivity platform used by more than 300,000 people in 140 countries including team at Shopify, Apple, TED, NOLS, Yale, Merck, and Bang & Olufsen. When I arrived, Flow had significant technical and design debt, no clear product direction, and was losing around 5% of its customers every single month. Within 18 months, I helped the company return to completely organic month-over-month growth with a brand new version of the product. • Refocused the company to win on user experience, world-class design, and powerfully simple features. • Shipped a complete reinvention of Flow after nearly 18 months of work. Within 48 hours of launch, we saw over 80% of customers switch to use the new version daily with usage growing to 92% within the first 30 days. • Successfully moved from a discount pricing model to a premium one raising prices nearly 2x—supported by a world-class product. • Rebranded the company, product, plans, and created an entirely new product design system.

Advisor & Managing Partner

2019 - 2022

Stratos is an institution credit and venture fund with over $250M in assets under management.

Design Advisor

2019 - 2020

Design Advisor

2019 - 2020

Principal Advisor, Design & Product

2017 - 2020

Founding Designer

2016 - 2017

I partnered with ex-Sequoia partner turned founder Warren Hogarth to define the look, feel, and feature set for Empower before he even incorporated the company. During the 15+ month lead up Empower's launch in the iOS App Store, I led every aspect of the design of the application. After launch, I remained on as an advisor and helped Warren bring on a team of designers to take over—as I made the decision with my wife to move to Colorado and Warren wanted to build an in-office team in San Francisco. I remained on as an advisor for 2+ years helping the team. To date, Empower has raised $174M from Sequoia, Initialized Capital, Icon Ventures, Quiet Capital, and Blisce.

Head of Design

2017 - 2019

Led the product, brand, and marketing design teams during Digit's inflection from a free text-message chat bot to a paid subscription with native iOS and Android apps. Was instrumental in crossing the $1-billion saved for customers milestone and growing ARR from $0 to $10M+. Digit was acquired by Opportun for $212M in 2021. • Won multiple awards including Best Apps of 2016 (1st Place in Most Innovative) and 2017 Google Play Awards (Standout Startups). • Led and scaled the design team while reporting into the CEO. • Designed the company's first iOS and Android apps, transitioning the company from a free text-message bot to a paid subscription with native iOS and Android apps. • Led brand reinvention including new logo, typography, colors, and design language. • Designed and built marketing website, referral campaign, and activation funnel—improving conversion over 3x from the baseline when I joined.