Damien M. Weiss

Damien M. Weiss

Partner

Represents Technology and Growth Clients

Damien advises many of Silicon Valley’s most exciting unicorns as well as start-ups that remain in product development.

Damien Weiss is a partner in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he helps start-ups and unicorns raise capital.

Damien advises 17 unicorns and a group of technology's most exciting start-ups. From 2019 to 2022, he advised 47 different companies raising venture capital rounds between $30 million and $1 billion in size. In the last four years he also advised more than 70 different companies raising venture capital rounds between $1 million and $30 million.

He has negotiated over 500 equity investments on behalf of companies. These include venture capital deals led by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, DCM, DFJ, DST, Founders Fund, Greylock, Innovation Endeavors, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, NEA, QED, Ribbit, Sequoia, Social Capital, and Y Combinator. He has also negotiated strategic investments led by Amazon and Google, growth investments led by SoftBank (Vision Fund) and Tiger Global, and crossover investments led by Fidelity and T. Rowe Price.

As an associate, Damien advised issuers and underwriters in connection with initial public offerings. He also represented numerous buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions. As a partner, Damien focuses primarily on private company fundraising.

Experience

Damien Weiss is a partner in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he helps start-ups and unicorns raise capital.

Education

J.D., University of Michigan Law SchoolRecipient, State Bar of Michigan Scholarship Prize
B.S., Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Admissions

State Bar of California

Credentials

Education

J.D., University of Michigan Law SchoolRecipient, State Bar of Michigan Scholarship Prize
B.S., Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Admissions

State Bar of California

Recent Insights

Client Highlights

On August 2, 2024, Aurora Innovation, Inc., a self-driving vehicle technology company, announced the closing of its underwritten upsized public offering for total gross proceeds of approximately $483 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses. In the public offering, Aurora sold 134,166,667 shares of its Class A common stock at $3.60 per share, which includes the full exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to 17,500,000 additional shares.

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Client Highlights

On June 10, 2024, Anterior, the AI company built by clinicians to transform healthcare administration, announced the completion of a $20 million Series A funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from Sequoia Capital, Blue Lion Global, and Neo. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Anterior on the transaction.

Anterior is on a mission to unlock doctors and nurses from the administrative burden they experience. The company’s first objective is to make prior authorization invisible, like the seamless communication that occurs when a credit card is swiped. Anterior’s technology leverages generative AI to clinically reason, delivering value out of the box, unlike the predictive AI models that have emerged in previous years. The Series A funding will help Anterior accelerate its hiring and growth strategies, ensuring the company continues to recruit and retain world-class talent and that its technology remains cutting-edge.

The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Anterior on the transaction included Damien Weiss, Rob Broderick, and Michelle Mealer.

For more information, please see Anterior’s news release.

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