Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Investor Stage

Seed

Dave has over 15 years’ experience investing behind and actively supporting the highest potential entrepreneurs to help bring their dreams to life. Dave is the founder and Managing Director of Tugboat Ventures.

Prior to founding Tugboat, Dave was a Managing Director of TPG Ventures, the founding CEO and a former board member of Good Technology (acquired by Motorola), the co-founder of Drugstore.com, a co-founding board member of Newschools Venture Fund, and the general manager and president of Optical Engineering, Inc. Dave also worked at Netscape, Hewlett Packard and Bain and served as an Associate Partner of Kleiner Perkins.

Dave currently serves on the board of directors at EdElements, Repair Pal and Savvy Money.

He holds a MBA from Stanford University, and a BA in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.