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Dave McClure

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Dave McClure is a venture capitalist & the founding general partner at 500 Startups, an internet seed fund and startup accelerator program in Mountain View, CA. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired, O’Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. He also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don’t hurt.

Dave has been an investor in over 100 startup companies including: Mint (acquired by Intuit), SlideShare, Twilio, FeeFighters, SendGrid, Credit Karma, Wildfire Interactive, Bit.ly, CrowdFlower, KissMetrics, TeachStreet, MyGengo, Mashery, and Simply Hired, among many others.

From 2008-2009, Dave managed FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investments program at Founders Fund, and in 2009 he also managed fbFund, the Facebook seed fund and incubator program. From 2007-2008, Dave was a consultant and advisor to several startups including Mint.com and oDesk. 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 co-founder of Startup2Startup, a monthly dinner series for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors, and co-founder of GeeksOnaPlane, an international travel and cultural exchange program for technology entrepreneurs and investors. He has been chairperson and organizer for several tech and startup conferences including WarmGun, SMASHsummit, STARTonomics, 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.

Recent Milestones

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  Dave McClure invested in InternMatch. (1/16/13)
  Posted 1/16/13 at 6:53pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in 42Floors. (11/16/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 6:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in Nuzzel. (11/15/12)
  Posted 11/15/12 at 7:14pm via finsmes.com
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  Dave McClure invested in Loku. (9/1/12)
  Posted 1/30/13 at 7:42pm
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  Dave McClure invested in Behance. (5/14/12)
  Posted 5/14/12 at 5:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in Farmeron. (5/10/12)
  Posted 5/10/12 at 11:03pm via venturebeat.com
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  Dave McClure invested in DailyWorth. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/5/12 at 7:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in ecomom. (12/10/11)
  Posted 2/15/12 at 2:39pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in CoderBuddy. (10/1/11)
  Posted 10/7/11 at 10:20pm
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  Dave McClure invested in Mocavo. (9/30/11)
  Posted 9/30/11 at 5:39pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in Farmeron. (9/29/11)
  Posted 10/9/11 at 10:58pm
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  Dave McClure invested in IMRSV. (9/19/11)
  Posted 9/19/11 at 7:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in Rentlord. (9/12/11)
  Posted 9/17/11 at 2:37pm
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  Dave McClure invested in Habit Labs. (8/14/11)
  Posted 7/27/11 at 2:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dave McClure invested in Manpacks. (8/1/11)
  Posted 2/2/12 at 12:33am
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  Dave McClure invested in ToutApp. (5/15/11)
  Posted 7/28/12 at 12:56pm via toutapp.com

Investments

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1. InternMatch Raises $1.2 Million To Expand Beyond Internships To Include Paying Jobs, Is Thinking About Rebranding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. 42Floors Raises $5M From Dave McClure, Alexis Ohanian, Others, Expands Office Search Site To New York (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Nuzzel Raises $1.7M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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5. After 5 Years Of Bootstrapping, Behance Nabs $6.5M From USV, Jeff Bezos, Dave Morin & More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Farmeron raises $1.4M to bring cloud services to farmers (venturebeat.com) [edit]
7. DailyWorth Grabs $2 Million To Bring Quality Financial Advice To Women — Via The Inbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Health Conscious Mom Commerce Site Ecomom Raises A Healthy $4 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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10. Mocavo Raises $1 Million To Build Its Ancestry-Centric Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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12. Inspired By "Minority Report," Immersive Labs Raises $810K For Digital Display Recognition (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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14. Habit Labs Gets $250K To Turn Leading A Healthier Life Into A Game (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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16. ToutApp Raises Seed Round from Esther Dyson, Dave McClure, Eric Ries and others. (www1.toutapp.com) [edit]
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18. Crowd-Sourced Design Startup Chirply Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Redesign (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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20. 500 Startups Bites Into Moonfruit’s Simple Site Builder For Design Fans (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. 500 Startups Bites Into Moonfruit’s Simple Site Builder For Design Fans (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. InternMatch Raises $400K To Help Students Find The Perfect Internship (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Cheezburger Creator Launches SimpleHoney To Find Hotels You’ll Love (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. 500 Startups accelerator launch (allthingsd.com) [edit]
25. TextualAds Raises $650K For Facebook-Fueled, Targeted SMS Campaigns (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Zappli Raising Seed Round For Shopping App MyShopanion (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
27. TechFlash (techflash.com) [edit]
28. techcrunch.com [edit]
29. Founder Buys Free Gifts Back from SGN for Less than 10% of the Purchase Price [TCTV] (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. Techcrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
32. techcrunch.com [edit]
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34. Crocodoc Raises Cash, Upgrades Web-based Document Review Service (xconomy.com) [edit]
35. techcrunch.com [edit]
36. Venturehacks (venturehacks.com) [edit]
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38. 500 Startups (500startups.com) [edit]
39. Oneforty Rolls Out Premium Twitter App Marketplace; Raises $1.9 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. Graphic.ly Raises $1.2M For Comic Publishing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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42. MyGengo Is Mechanical Turk For Translations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. WePay raises $1.65M for Virtual Group Banking (gigaom.com) [edit]
44. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. thealarmclock.com [edit]
46. Space Pencil Raises $2.8 Million For Web Analytics (paidcontent.org) [edit]
47. Company Blog (blog.tradevibes.com) [edit]
48. techcrunch.com [edit]
49. prnewswire.com []
50. Dave became an advisor to TeachStreet in spring 2007, and an angel investor in fall 2007. (500hats.com) [edit]
51. blog.lookery.com [edit]
52. techcrunch.com [edit]