| Website | 500hats.com |
| Blog | 500hats.typepad.com |
| @davemcclure | |
| Birthplace | West Virginia |
| Johns Hopkins University, BS | 1988 |
| Mathematical Sciences Engineering |
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Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups.
Dave is an investor in over 30 startup companies including: Mint (acquired by Intuit), SlideShare, Twilio, Credit Karma, UserVoice, Bit.ly, CrowdFlower, KissMetrics, TeachStreet, RichRelevance, Mashery, and Simply Hired, among many others.
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 the co-founder of Startup2Startup and Finance4Founders, two monthly dinner series for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors. He has been chairperson and organizer for several tech and startup conferences including STARTonomics, Graphing Social Patterns, and Web 2.0 Expo (SF). He has been a visiting lecturer on social networking platforms and applications at Stanford University. Dave has been an advisor to microfinance organizations Unitus & Kiva, and co-founder of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network. He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in Mathematical Sciences Engineering.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| TransFS.com | 8/10 | Unattributed | $510k | 2 |
| Recurly | 7/10 | Seed | $1.6M | 6 |
| AwayFind | 4/10 | Angel | 1 | |
| Worldly Developments | 3/10 | Seed | $800k | 13 |
| Postling | 3/10 | Angel | 7 | |
| EcoMom | 3/10 | Seed | $400k | 10 |
| SiteJabber | 3/10 | Seed | 2 | |
| Linkdex | 2/10 | Angel | 1 | |
| oneforty | 1/10 | Series A | $1.98M | 7 |
| Graphic.ly | 1/10 | Series A | $1.2M | 8 |
| MyGengo | 1/10 | Angel | 1 | |
| Ninua | 1/10 | Angel | 1 | |
| WePay | 12/09 | Series A | $1.65M | 4 |
| Twilio | 1/09 | Seed | 6 | |
| Mashery | 10/08 | Series B | $7M | 7 |
| Space Pencil | 6/08 | Seed | $1M | 3 |
| Mill River Labs | 1/08 | Angel | $900k | 4 |
| SlideShare | 1/08 | Seed | $300k | 7 |
| EventVue | 9/07 | Series A | $250k | 8 |
| richrelevance | 8/07 | Seed | 1 | |
| Mint.com | 4/07 | Series A | $4.7M | 6 |
| Mashery | 2007 | Angel | 4 | |
| TeachStreet | 2007 | Angel | 1 | |
| Simply Hired | 8/05 | Series A | $3M | 7 |
