Danny Leffel
CEO, Crew
Danny Leffel is currently the CEO & co-founder of Crew, a messaging and productivity app designed for mobile workforces. He previously founded Yardsellr, a service that operated on top of Facebook and Twitter to augment these services and provide the marketplace-specific functionality so that items could be bought and sold in the social feeds of users. During his time as the CEO at Yardsellr, Danny raised $16M from Tiger Global, Accel Partners and Harrison Metal and helped the company grow to 50 employees. Prior to Yardsellr, he co-founded InGameNow, and served as the VP of Business Development at VideoSurf, a computer-vision technology company turned video search engine that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for $100M. From 2004 to 2007, Danny served as the manager at eBay Business. Danny graduated from Trinity University in 1997.
Content & Articles by Danny Leffel
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos Health
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos Health, to...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...
The 10 Security Gaps That Plague Startups Before Their A Round
A NOTE ON SEVERITY Not every item on this list carries the same level of risk. Some are the kind of finding that stops a deal. Others are serious but...
Community-Led Growth for Startups: Why Most Communities Fail and How to Build One That Actually Works
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited Sam Jacobs — founder and CEO of Pavilion — to talk about community-led growth: what it actually means, why most communities...