Daniel Narea's path into venture started unusually: he met Dakin Sloss in person in Jackson, Wyoming while working part-time at a cryotherapy center, which led to him joining Prime Movers Lab as Sloss's executive assistant in 2020 and quickly taking on a real seat on the leadership team, building out the firm's note-taking systems and reporting routines while also writing about frontier science topics like solar heat, microbiome-based farming, and water-powered space propulsion. He now works as Director of Strategic Projects at IBX within Kam Ghaffarian's space and deep tech ecosystem while launching Lightcone Ventures, and colleagues describe him as someone who gets things done reliably under pressure rather than a typical finance-focused investor.