| Website | 500hats.com |
| Blog | 500hats.typepad.com |
| Birthplace | West Virginia |
| Johns Hopkins University, BS | 1988 |
| Mathematical Sciences Engineering |
Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, angel investor, startup advisor, and blogger. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, SlideShare, TradeVibes, Oortle, CrazyEgg / KissMetrics, TeachStreet, Eventvue, Spock, RichRelevance, Mashery, Simply Hired, HealthUnity, and Canopy Financial.
Dave is currently founder and principal at 500 Hats LLC. From 2005-2006, Dave launched and ran marketing for job search engine Simply Hired. From 2001-2004, Dave was Director of Marketing at PayPal (acquired by eBay in 2002), where he started & ran the PayPal Developer Network program. Prior to PayPal, Dave was a database consultant & programmer for several companies, including Microsoft and Intel. In 1994 he founded Aslan Computing, an internet and e-commerce firm later acquired by Servinet/Panurgy in 1998.
Dave is also a conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo. He has been a guest lecturer on social application platforms & viral metrics at Stanford University. Dave is a board member for microfinance accelerator Unitus, advisor to microfinance lender Kiva.org, and a co-founder of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network. Dave graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in Mathematical Sciences Engineering.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| SlideShare 1 | 5/08 | Series A | $3M | 8 |
| SlideShare 2 | 1/08 | Seed | N/A | 4 |
| Mill River Labs 3 | 1/08 | Angel | $900k | 3 |
| Mint 4 | 10/07 | Series A | $4.7M | 6 |
| Mashery 5 | 9/07 | Series A | N/A | 2 |
| Mashery 6 | 9/07 | Series B | N/A | 4 |
| EventVue 7 | 9/07 | Series A | $250k | 8 |
| TeachStreet 8 | 2007 | Angel | N/A | 1 |
| SimplyHired 9 | 8/05 | Series A | $3M | 7 |
