daniela perlein

Raised throughout Latin America, I now live in Los Angeles. I am a tech founder, and selectively angel invest and advise tech startups. I’m a venture partner at Also Capital, where we back builders of the hardest things (aerospace, robotics, RF, etc.).

I love working to increase access:

  • I co-founded Juicebox, an open-source project aimed at allowing everyone to secure their most valuable data and assets by solving issues related to key management. It is used by X and Phantom, among others.

  • I co-founded goTenna with the goal of increasing access to connectivity. Over the course of a decade, goTenna has become the leader in mobile mesh networking. We make the world’s smallest, lightest, and most cost-effective tactical communications system, now used by over 350 government agencies. Our hardware, paired with the novel Aspen Grove mesh protocol, enables connectivity independent of cell, wifi, and satellite. The company was acquired by Forterra in 2025.

  • I founded a national volunteer project, aimed at increasing voters’ access to information about core societal issues through the lens of a grassroots political candidate’s record. (Founding statement here.)

Here’s a list of books I love and recommend:

  • Apeirogon by Collum McCann

  • How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum

  • The Sellout by Paul Beatty

  • The Counterlife by Philip Roth

  • Democracy by Joan Didion

  • Post Office by Charles Bukowski

  • Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

  • Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

  • Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog

  • La ronde de nuit (Night Rounds) by Patrick Modiano

  • Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

  • Toward a Psychology of Awakening by John Welwood

  • No Bad Parts by Richard D. Schwartz

  • El diario de Frida Kahlo (The Diary of Frida Kahlo) by Frida Kahlo

  • The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  • Raising the Floor by Andy Stern

  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer