About Us

  • Airwing’s mission is to help others make pivotal investments in high growth companies leveraging breakthrough services to create a better world.

  • Airwing invests in digital services that are reinventing the way we live, work and play…building trusted brands that help people live richer and fuller lives.

  • We partner with great leaders, mission driven founders and tenacious teams; helping them build successful companies and impactful, lasting legacies.

  • We develop unique ecosystem programs to support our companies, our partners and the overall innovation efforts underway across the country.

  • We are building a national venture growth platform with a Best of America focus (The Best of American Innovation, Growth, Leadership & Entrepreneurship)

  • We believe in the collective power of entrepreneurs, startups, small business owners, capital, connections and collaboration to reimagine services that improve our world.

  • We leverage Growth Game Plans, Investment Playbooks, Success Checklists, Best Practices and Lessons Learned to optimize successful outcomes across our portfolio and partner network.

  • We obsess about providing excellent customer service and earning the opportunity to work with talented entrepreneurs, partners, and co-investors each and every day.

What we look for

  • Team, talent, tenacity, high growth experience
  • Unique insight, differentiation and customer demand
  • Large market transformation + high option value
  • Strong investor syndicates, business scaling levers in place

Dan Beldy

Partner

Dan Beldy is a founding partner at Airwing Ventures. Dan has spent the last 20 years in technology and finance as a venture capitalist. Previously, Dan was a managing director at Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of The Walt Disney Company, where he led the U.S. venture team. Prior to that he was a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, the first venture firm to focus exclusively on software investments. Dan is also a founding partner of Powerplant Ventures.

Dan has been involved with several successful companies as an investor and advisor including GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO), Edgecast, acquired by Verizion (NYSE: VZ), Vobile (HKEX:3738), Method, acquired by Ecover; upLynk, acquired by Verizon (NYSE: VZ); Playdom, acquired by Disney (NYSE: DIS); FreeWheel, acquired by Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA); Greystripe, acquired by ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK); Employease, acquired by ADP (NASDAQ: ADP); and Starmine, acquired by Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI).

Earlier in his career Dan was an F/A-18 fighter pilot and instructor in the U.S. Navy, and served with the Brazilian Navy during an exchange program. Dan has a B.S. in Computer Science with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MBA from The Wharton School. He enjoys family and friends, golf, triathlons and is an avid Springsteen fan. Dan has completed 290+ carrier landings, delivered 25,000+ copies of the NY Daily News, and has completed a triathlon at Alcatraz and a marathon in Antarctica.