Dan Ventures USA LLC · Jacksonville, Florida
One company, every part of the build.
Dan Ventures USA LLC is the company behind Daniel's real estate and venture work. It develops its own projects, owns three companies outright, brings in partners who build and buy, advises other developers and founders, and backs early-stage companies. It is self-funded, independent and kept separate from any other business.
- Entity
- Florida limited liability company
- Business address
- 1601-1 N Main St #3159, SMB#118102, Jacksonville, FL 32206
- Registered agent
- LegalCorp Solutions, LLC, 3440 W Hollywood Blvd. Suite 415, Hollywood, FL 33021 (Broward County)
- Projects
- Project Counterpoint, Project Treeline, Common Frame and the Jacksonville infill lab, with Backbeat (2028) and Caprock (2029) coming
- Companies we own
- Prophesy Capital, Dissonant Capital and The First Chair Company, wholly owned by Dan Ventures and Daniel Kaufman
- Partner companies
- Mr. Good Container Homes (RevPad), Oldivai and Open Chord
- Services
- Switchback capital advisory, Fall Line development advisory, Rent-Ready, Trailhead land scoring, the Idea Lab and Sidecountry
Capabilities deck
Everything we do on 16 slides: our projects, factory-built housing, land and park buying, development and capital advisory, venture investing and partners. For partners, sellers, lenders and press.
How it's organized
One small company at the center sets the strategy, sources sites, underwrites every deal and manages partners, lenders and reporting. Four lines of work run from it, each with its own plan.
Develop and invest
Our own projects, from buildings in growing mid-size cities and mountain towns to attainable and workforce housing. Projects →
Factory-built housing
With Mr. Good Container Homes, through our joint venture and the RevPad brand, and with Oldivai, we place factory-built homes on parks, land and employer sites. We also buy RV and mobile home parks. Partners →
Advise and raise
Fall Line development advisory, Switchback capital advisory and Rent-Ready help developers, founders and small landlords plan, build and get funding-ready. Advisory →
Back founders and ideas
Sidecountry backs early founders with Daniel's own capital. The Idea Lab scores any idea for free, and Groundwork and the Mountain Town Housing Index share what we learn. Sidecountry →
How we work
Early and patient
We look where others aren't marketing yet and hold for the long run rather than chasing a quick exit.
On the ground
We walk every site and meet the people who keep a place running before anyone draws a plan.
Operator-minded
We plan for the whole year and the whole life of a building, not just the day it opens.
A small team, well equipped
We're building our own large language model to help run underwriting, projects, leasing and property management.
Straight answers
Partners hear what we know, what we don't and what we're deciding, in plain language.
The projects
Project Counterpoint
Residential and mixed-use property in growing mid-size cities. Learn more →
Project Treeline
Lodging, workforce housing and year-round places in mountain towns. Learn more →
Common Frame
Attainable and workforce housing in Vermont and Florida. Learn more →
Jacksonville infill lab
Two urban infill projects testing modular construction, AI, 3D printing and robotics. Groundbreaking targeted for 2027. Learn more →
Coming next
Project Backbeat, a townhome community in Nashville (2028), and Project Caprock, an AI infrastructure development in Texas (2029).
Companies we own
Wholly owned by Dan Ventures and Daniel Kaufman, with no outside partners.
Dissonant Capital
A vertically integrated real estate platform that handles acquisition, design, construction and property management in-house. Cadence Fund I: 359 entitled townhome units in Wake Forest, NC; Liberty, MO; Idaho Falls, ID and Rogers, AR. dissonantcapital.com ↗
The First Chair Company
Mountain and ski resort communities planned around the terrain, with employee housing set up with the resort operator. Basecamp Village: 40 residences with retail, Phase 1 delivered and Phase 2 under construction. thefirstchaircompany.com ↗
Prophesy Capital
A land development investment firm that tracks infrastructure spending, migration, zoning and capital flows to find land markets before they reprice. prophesycapital.com ↗
Prophesy Capital and Dissonant Capital are investment firms. Nothing on this page is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or interest in any fund or project.
Partner companies
Each partner does one part of the job well. Mr. Good and Oldivai started as Sidecountry investments and grew into partnerships.
Mr. Good Container Homes
Factory-built container homes from Alachua, Florida and Tyler, Texas. Our joint venture, DV MGCH Texas Holdings, sells them as RevPad. The partnership →
Oldivai
Factory-built workforce housing for the missing middle, built on its Project Zero system in Spokane. The partnership →
Open Chord
Rooms by OC: private, furnished rooms in shared homes with one weekly or monthly payment. Nashville in 2027, nationwide in 2028, with Johnnie Poole. openchord.live ↗
RevPad
Turnkey container duplexes sold direct, with delivered pricing by ZIP code. revpad.co →
The founder
Daniel Kaufman grew up in Massachusetts, studied ski area management in Vermont and worked for American Skiing Company before starting his real estate career in New York in the mid-2000s. He lives in Orlando, runs two urban infill lab projects in Jacksonville that test new technologies and processes, and serves as President of Oldivai.
Read Daniel's storyAdvisors we're adding
We're a small team by design and lean on specialists. These are the seats we're filling now. If one fits you, we'd like to talk.
Architecture and design
Infill, attainable and mountain-town housing that fits its place and pencils out.
Advanced building
3D-printed and robotic construction partners ready to test on real projects, alongside our factory-built partners.
Land use and real estate law
Zoning, entitlements and housing programs in Florida, Vermont, Texas and the mountain states.
Capital and lending
Local lenders, community development lenders and housing finance agencies.
Property management
Operators who know workforce housing, parks and attainable homes and treat residents well.
Data and AI
People who can help train and test our in-house model for underwriting and operations.
Working with us
- Landowners and sellers. Tell us about a site, even if it isn't listed, or get land scored on Trailhead.
- Park owners. Submit an RV or mobile home park, or a portfolio of two or more.
- Park operators and buyers. Order a RevPad duplex with delivered pricing at revpad.co.
- Towns, agencies and employers. Bring us a housing need, a parcel or a program, or talk to us about homes near where your team works.
- Developers and builders. Fall Line plans and manages the build, and Switchback gets you ready to raise.
- Founders. Pitch Sidecountry or score an idea in the Idea Lab.
- Investors. Send a note. Any investment is offered only through formal documents to verified accredited investors.
Have a site, a need or a partnership in mind?
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