Danielle Morrill
Cofounder & CTO at Firstparty - - Investor - - CEO Coach - - Exited Founder & Y Combinator Alum
Danielle Morrill is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive known for her role as General Manager of Meltano at GitLab Inc. She has a diverse background in technology and startups, having co-founded and led several companies. Morrill was instrumental in the development of Meltano, an internal startup at GitLab focused on data engineering, which was eventually spun out as an independent company. Her leadership at Meltano involved managing the data engineering lifecycle and addressing key challenges faced by data engineers.123
Before her time at Meltano, Morrill co-founded Mattermark, a SaaS company providing firmographic data for investment screening and sales lead enrichment, which was acquired by FullContact in 2017. She also co-founded Referly, a company that participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch, and was the first employee at Twilio, where she played a significant role in establishing customer service and marketing functions.13
In addition to her entrepreneurial ventures, Morrill is an active angel investor, focusing on startups in developer tools, collaboration SaaS, and data infrastructure. She is also a certified professional coach, offering leadership coaching to startup founders and executives.13