| 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, startup investor, and blogger. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel, a seed-stage investment program; as well as the fbFund, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups.
Dave is an investor in the following companies: Mint, SlideShare, Twilio, 1000 Markets, UserVoice, Bit.ly, Dolores Labs, KissMetrics, TeachStreet, Eventvue, RichRelevance, Mashery, Simply Hired, and Canopy Financial, among 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 founder of Startup2Startup, a monthly dinner series for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs & VCs, and has been a conference chairperson for STARTonomics, Graphing Social Patterns, and Web 2.0 Expo (SF). He has been a guest lecturer on social application platforms & viral metrics at Stanford University. Dave is an advisor to microfinance organizations Unitus & Kiva, and a 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 |
| Fluther | 9/09 | Unattributed | $600k | 6 |
| SlideShare | 5/08 | Series A | $3M | 8 |
| SlideShare | 1/08 | Seed | 4 | |
| Mill River Labs | 1/08 | Angel | $900k | 3 |
| Mashery | 9/07 | Series A | 3 | |
| Mashery | 9/07 | Series B | 5 | |
| EventVue | 9/07 | Series A | $250k | 8 |
| Mint.com | 4/07 | Series A | $4.7M | 6 |
| TeachStreet | 2007 | Angel | 1 | |
| Simply Hired | 8/05 | Series A | $3M | 7 |