Dana Watt is a partner at Breakout Ventures and a former diagnostics founder. She focuses on investing in teams that address real-world inflection points and values long-term relationships.
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Send your deckDana Watt is a partner at Breakout Ventures and a former diagnostics founder. She focuses on investing in teams that address real-world inflection points and values long-term relationships.
Dana Watt invests through Breakout Ventures, which writes checks of $500K to $10M at pre-seed, seed, series a.
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graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis; University entrepreneurship center; Ascension Ventures.
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