Dana Warren

Venture Partner at Canaan Partners

Panelist

Dana Warren is currently a venture partner at Canaan Partners, an early stage venture firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas. Dana brings 15 years of experience building and running revenue, marketing, and strategy teams at American Express, PayPal, and Stripe.

Most recently, at Stripe, Dana helped build and grow global strategic partnerships with leading SaaS & B2B platforms including Shopify, Salesforce, Mindbody, Squarespace, and XERO. Dana is also a board member and advises early-stage tech CEOs and founders on operations and growth. Dana has advised diverse early ventures including Yeeld, Cove, Sendoso, and Anthropic, an artificial intelligence safety and research leader, on how to scale early successes.

Dana currently sits on the Board of PeerForward where she Chairs the Development Committee & site on the Executive Committee, an education nonprofit focused on post-secondary planning and college access, and she previously held nonprofit board seats at Princeton AlumniCorps and the Brooklyn Latin School.

Dana holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia Business School where she graduated with honors. She lives in Westchester, New York with her husband and their three children