Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 14
Number of Founded Organizations 2
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner
  • Investor Stage  Seed

David Beisel is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm with offices in New York and Boston. The NextView Ventures team are high conviction, hands-on seed investors, championing founders who want to redesign the Everyday Economy. David's investments include Attentive, TripleLift, Code Climate, Parsec,

BookBub, thredUP, MealPal, The Nudge, Hatch, and TapCommerce (acquired by Twitter for $100M).

Prior to NextView, David served as a Vice President at Venrock (early stage VC firm originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family). Previously, David co-founded Sombasa Media, an e-mail marketing company best known for its flagship property BargainDog.com, which he grew to 5M registered members. Sombasa was successfully acquired by About.com, which was soon after acquired by Primedia (NYSE: PRM), where he was Vice President of Marketing.

David's educational background includes an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB in Economics, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Duke University.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 4
David Beisel is the Co-Founder & Partner at NextView Ventures. Additionally, David Beisel has had 4 past jobs including Founder and Organizer at Web Innovators Group.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Web Innovators Group
Founder and Organizer20042017
Venrock
Vice PresidentMay 1, 2007Jun 1, 2010
Masthead Venture Partners
Principal2004Apr 1, 2007
The Parthenon Group
Associate19981999
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 14
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 4
David Beisel holds 14 board and advisor roles including Board Member at New Era ADR, Board Observer at Carewell, and Seed Investor at Hatch.
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Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Timber
Seed Investor20162021
Renoviso
Investor20152019
TapCommerce
Investor20122014
AppNexus
Board Observer
Number of News Articles 88
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