Daley Ervin

Daley Ervin

Engage Managing Director

Daley is a Venture Partner and an Engage Managing Director where he is responsible for leading corporate partner relationships, sourcing and investments, and assisting portfolio founders in partnership development, go-to-market refinement, and the issues surrounding high-growth and scale.

Daley has spent more than 10 years leading four venture capital-backed startups on three continents. Most recently, he was Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for Amazon-backed Nucleus in New York. Prior to that, he was the General Manager and Head of North American Operations for Student.com, Founding team and General Manager for London-based YPlan, and was part of the International Expansion Team at Airbnb.

As a competitive ultramarathoner and extreme endurance athlete, Ervin set the United States’ pairs record having rowed 3,000 miles over 45-days across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain to the Caribbean in the “World’s Toughest Rowing Race.”

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business and communication from Arizona State University.