Danielle Larish

Danielle Larish is Co-Founder and General Partner of Okina Ventures, an emerging venture fund and studio built on a differentiated thesis: government-backed science and technology, hardened on defense budgets, can be rebuilt into hyper-growth companies serving civilian markets. Okina finds that technology and builds the company around it.

She is also the Founding Principal of Immersive Insights, a fractional executive practice for defense contractors, dual-use ventures, and mid-market firms. Across 14 industries she has unlocked more than $2B in enterprise value through operational scaling, product commercialization, and M&A execution, most of it inside companies facing an existential decision rather than a comfortable one. She is the operator founders call at the breakpoint, when the model stops working and the next move decides whether the company survives.

Her focus is making businesses durable and hard to kill.