| Key | Value |
| Action needed | Manual search of Carter's inbox for correspondence with this contact. |
| Alignment | 84/100 |
| Alternative | Direct contact via Praxis website — Dan is publicly listed as the contact for Capital programs ("Contact Dan Reed to learn more" on praxis.co/community). |
| Attio | https://app.attio.com/day-7-public-benefit-corporation/person/f89851da-b196-45ef-a2d4-1f7638081429 |
| Best Path | Andy Crouch (Partner for Theology & Culture, Praxis) — already in the Genesis war room as a high-priority target. Andy is Dan's direct colleague. One ask from Andy = warm introduction to Dan = warm in |
| Best approach | Through a C12 member who can introduce. Dan is an organizational leader — he responds to "how does this serve my members?" The frame: "Genesis is infrastructure that amplifies what your 2,500 CEOs are |
| Best warm path | Through a current C12 member (Terry Looper, Alan Barnhart-adjacent, or other) |
| C12 Group HQ | Corporate office (Atlanta/SE area) |
| C12 website | https://www.c12group.com |
| Command Center | Active |
| Composite Score | 90.0/100 |
| Confidence | B (from research bundle) |
| Coverage | 65% |
| Crown him | King of Redemptive Deployment. The venture partner channeling capital into businesses that restore what is broken. |
| Current focus | Praxis Capital funder cultivation; Flourish Fund (foster care systems change); Seed coaching |
| Data % | 65% |
| Data Status | RICH (47,454 bytes across sources) |
| Direct via Praxis website | Publicly listed: "Contact Dan Reed to learn more" on praxis.co/community |
| Direct? | No |
| Domain | Redemptive Capital + Christian Philanthropy + Systems-Change + Venture Building |
| Dossier | planning/wave3-dossiers/dan-reed.md |
| Email(s) | info@praxislabs.org |
| Entry complexity | VERY HIGH — Extremely private, almost never grants interviews. Foundation gives by invitation only through tight inner circle (Proft, Tillman). |
| Entry strategy | Ask for Dan's perspective on positioning Genesis within the Praxis ecosystem — honor his role as community cultivator, not just a conduit. |
| Family | Wife: Melissa; 2 kids; dog: Norma the Newfie |
| Founded | Seed (2015, fundraising training); Flourish Fund (foster care systems change) |
| Full Name | Dan Reed |
| Full name | Dan Reed |
| Harvest | planning/harvest/genesis-outreach-dan-reed.md |
| Hub | planning/command-center/16-dan-reed.md |
| Key framing | "Capitalism vs. socialism" in the AI age. Free enterprise values applied to technology. Anti-ESG, pro-freedom technology. |
| Key orgs | Praxis (venture fund + accelerator for redemptive entrepreneurship) |
| Link | https://dan-reed.myday7.com |
| LinkedIn | Reference Praxis Redemptive AI thesis + Capital Fellowship |
| Location | Beaver, Pennsylvania |
| Mined by | C3 window, S1334 LAST RUN |
| NOTE | There is a DIFFERENT Dan Reed (Managing Director, American Family Ventures — insurance VC, former MLB pitcher) who appears in search results. The Praxis Dan Reed is the correct roster contact. |
| Net Worth | Estimated $2–8M (nonprofit/fund partner; not a mega-fund GP) |
| One-line Read | The person at Praxis who CONNECTS CAPITAL TO VENTURES — one relationship = warm access to 100+ faith-driven investors deploying millions into redemptive ventures |
| Open Questions | - Dan's education background (unverified) |
| Packet | planning/excavation-packets/016-dan-reed_PACKET.md |
| Personalized site | https://dan-reed.myday7.com |
| Preparation | - Business leadership career prior to C12 (details not widely public) |
| Previous Roles | National Right to Work Committee; Denver Public Schools Foundation; Morris Animal Foundation; EIR at Praxis Studio |
| Primary Role | Partner, Praxis Capital |
| Primary identity | Partner, Praxis Capital |
| Profile | war-room/profiles/dan-reed.md |
| Rank | 16 \ | Tier: Kings \ | Coverage: 65→80 \ | Session: B2-DEEP-1 S1328 |
| Recognition lens | Dan is the connector. He doesn't have a personal $1B story — he FACILITATES the stories of 2,500+ CEOs who together generate $30B+. His value is positional: he sits at the nexus of the largest Christi |
| Risk assessment | Very political donor — alignment is ideological/capitalist rather than faith-driven. Foundation is small relative to total capacity. |
| Search terms used | Dan Reed |
| Slug | dan-reed |
| Source | git-deleted planning/excavation-packets/016-dan-reed_PACKET.md (commit caea9ab79bdb) |
| Source Links | Dossier · Top300 · Packet · [Profile](war-room/profiles/dan- |
| Strategy | The foundation angle is secondary — Uihlein's real capacity is personal ($5.9B) and political. His foundation gives $7M/yr; he gives $143M/yr politically. |
| Suggested search terms | Dan Reed, company/org names from network section. |
| The Hook | "Andy Crouch wrote the thesis. We built the thing." |
| The image | a porch at dusk in a small brick river-town, one warm lamp burning, a great gentle Newfoundland asleep on the boards — and the door open, the light spilling out toward us, as if the man who spent his |
| The one breath | Of all six Kings in this window, Dan Reed is the one who has spent his whole life making sure he is not the one seen. His vocation is to be the catalyst behind other people's giving — the coach besi |
| The truth (paraphrase of his own conviction — he has no public verbatim quote to lift) | that the catalyst of generosity — the one who exists so that other people's world-changing work can happen, and never takes the stage — is doing sacred work. Dan Reed believes that about everyon |
| The whole person | Dan Reed is the infrastructure builder who creates space for others' faith-business journeys. He is not the loudest voice in the room — he is the one who BUILT the room. |
| Third Option | LinkedIn outreach referencing Praxis's Redemptive AI thesis and the Capital Fellowship program. |
| Through C12 members | Multiple people in our universe are C12 members |
| Through other Praxis connections | Henry Kaestner, Josh Kwan, Dave Blanchard |
| Tier | Mid-High |
| Timestamp | 2026-06-16T16:46Z |
| Top-300 Dossier | planning/top300/dossiers/dan-reed-praxis.md |
| Verified | - Partner at Praxis Capital (confirmed on praxis.co) |
| Warm paths | Conservative donor networks (Philanthropy Roundtable); Illinois conservative ecosystem; possible through conservative media figures he funds |
| Warmth | KNOWN |
| What NOT to do | Do NOT use any foster-care / Flourish Fund / "protection of the most vulnerable" / BCG / Stanford material — that is Dan Vogel, not Dan Reed. Do not fabricate quotes (no public verbatim Reed quote |
| Why | Research profile with background, wealth, faith alignment, and engagement data. |
| Why Genesis | Genesis maps DIRECTLY to Praxis's "Redemptive AI" thesis authored by Andy Crouch. If Genesis entered the Praxis pipeline, Dan Reed would be the person making introductions to 100+ aligned investors. H |
| Why rank 16 (Kings) | Dan Reed controls the FUNDER side of Praxis — the ecosystem that Andy Crouch, Ben Chelf, and dozens of faith-driven ventures operate within. He is cultivating a community of wealthy Christians committ |