Daniel Ha is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of blog comment platform Disqus. Ha started Disqus with his co-founder, Jason Yan, in 2007. Ha and Yan had known each other since the 7th grade. At the time, Ha was attending the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

, where he was studying computer engineering. After registering disqus.com as a catchy domain to be used for any number of projects that they had in mind, the project evolved from just a domain registration into a blog comment platform. Once off the ground they applied and got accepted to

Y Combinator Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 5,000 companies. The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, Californi ...

, a startup incubator, and with that footing were able to secure more meetings with investors, eventually raising $10 million in funding in May 2011.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ha, Daniel 1986 births American people of Chinese descent American technology company founders Living people University of California, Davis alumni