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David Cohen

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David G. Cohen is the Founder and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment firm.

He has founded four companies, including Pinpoint Technologies (Broomfield, CO, public safety software, acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation in 1999), iContact.com (Boulder, CO, mobile social networking, defunct), earFeeder.com (Boulder, CO, acquired by SonicSwap) and TechStars.

He is also an active angel investor nationally managing about $70M in funding. He invests primarily in early stage web/software companies through his $5 million fund.

David blogs at DavidGCohen.com.

Recent Milestones

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  David Cohen invested in Placester. (4/29/13)
  Posted 8/30/11 at 6:59pm via techcrunch.com
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  David Cohen invested in BusyLife Software. (4/2/13)
  Posted 4/5/13 at 5:09am via finsmes.com
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  David Cohen invested in EverTrue. (3/21/13)
  Posted 3/21/13 at 5:39am via techcrunch.com
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  David Cohen invested in vidIQ. (2/26/13)
  Posted 2/26/13 at 8:25pm via finsmes.com
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  David Cohen invested in Tred. (1/15/13)
  Posted 11/21/12 at 10:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  David Cohen invested in Ovuline. (1/7/13)
  Posted 1/7/13 at 5:05am via techcrunch.com
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  David Cohen invested in Simple Energy. (1/1/13)
  Posted 4/10/13 at 12:13pm via sec.gov
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  David Cohen invested in Moveline. (10/31/12)
  Posted 10/31/12 at 9:09pm via pandodaily.com
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  David Cohen invested in Burner. (10/18/12)
  Posted 10/19/12 at 3:50am via finsmes.com
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  David Cohen invested in ObjectLabs. (10/1/12)
  Posted 12/11/12 at 11:38am via gigaom.com
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  David Cohen invested in Revolv. (9/25/12)
  Posted 9/26/12 at 4:17am via pandodaily.com
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  David Cohen invested in PivotDesk. (9/24/12)
  Posted 7/25/12 at 3:59pm via thenextweb.com
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  David Cohen invested in Ubooly. (9/24/12)
  Posted 7/23/12 at 11:32am via techcrunch.com
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  David Cohen invested in Scopely. (9/19/12)
  Posted 9/19/12 at 6:42pm via techcrunch.com
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  David Cohen added a position as Board Member at PivotDesk. (8/1/12)
  Posted 11/17/12 at 3:33pm
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  David Cohen invested in FullContact. (7/9/12)
  Posted 7/11/12 at 3:28pm via fullcontact.com

Investments

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1. TechStars Boston Alum Placester Raises $2.5 Million For Its Professional Website Builder For Realtors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. BusyLife Software Raises $1.225M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
3. TechStars Alum EverTrue Lands $5.25M From Bain, David Cohen, Bonobos CEO To Reinvent Fundraising In Education (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. vidIQ Raises $800K in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
5. Tred Gets $1.7M To Be An Uber For Car Test Drives (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Ovuline Raises $1.4M From Lightbank, David Cohen And Others To Help Women Track Fertility And Pregnancy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. SEC Form D (sec.gov) [edit]
8. Moveline raises $1.5 million to deal with moving companies (so you never have to) (pandodaily.com) [edit]
9. Burner Raises Angel Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
10. MongoLab explains why everyone loves MongoDB (and raises $5M) (gigaom.com) [edit]
11. Mobiplug Nabs New CEO and Raises $2.7m (pandodaily.com) [edit]
12. The Next Web (thenextweb.com) [edit]
13. Ubooly, The Plush Toy With An iPhone Brain, Grabs $1.5M In Seed Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Confirmed: Scopely’s New $8.5M Funding Round Was Not Wrapped In Bacon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. FullContact Announces $7 Million Series B Financing Round Led By Foundry Group (fullcontact.com) [edit]
16. Datahero Wants To Democratize Data Visualization And Analysis, Raises $1M Round Led By Foundry Group (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Precog Secured $2M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
18. TechStars alum Mocavo grabs $4M to help you find your ancestors (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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21. All-Star Cast Invests 750K In Ben Huh And Matt Galligan’s Mobile News Startup Circa (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Social Marketing Startup BlogFrog Raises $3.2M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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24. Boulder startup Skedul.me raises nearly $1.5M (dailycamera.com) [edit]
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27. Dispatch Raises $965K To Manage All Of Your Cloud Files From One Place (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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29. Ordr.in Raises Seed Funding From Google Ventures For Its Food API (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. TechStars Grad ReportGrid Raises $750K Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Observer (observer.com) [edit]
32. Mocavo Raises $1 Million To Build Its Ancestry-Centric Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Self-Service Ad Platform isocket Grabs More Funding; Partners With Google; Steals Rubicon Exec (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. TechStars Graduate FullContact Lands $1.5 Million, Helps Keep Contact Records Updated (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. FastCustomer Raises $750K So You Don’t Have To Wait On Hold (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. ThinkNear Closes $1.6M Seed Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
37. Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. Chicago startup Tap.Me raises $1.4M (chicagobreakingbusiness.com) [edit]
39. Cloud Database Provider MongoLab Raises $3 Million From Foundry, Baseline, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. Baydin Closes Its $375,000 Funding Round (In An UberCab, Per Our Suggestion) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. UpNext Scores $500,000 From Chris Sacca And Others For 3D Mobile Mapping (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. DailyWorth Raises $850K To Become The Daily Candy For Personal Finance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. GiveForward Raises $500K To Be The Kickstarter For Medical Expenses (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. Storenvy Finds A Number Of Impressive Buyers For Its $1.5 Million Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Stealth Milewise Raises $1.5 Million To Help People Cash In On Reward Programs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. UberCab raises $1.25M to end your futile search for taxis (venturebeat.com) [edit]
48. ADstruc, A Marketplace For Outdoor Advertising, Closes $1.1 Million Series A Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Kapost Raises $1.1 Million To Help Publishers Manage An Army Of Contributors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Orbotix Gets Funding From Foundry Group (techrockies.com) [edit]
51. OneTrueFan Is The Foursquare For Websites (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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54. School on hold as start-up gets $ (bostonherald.com) [edit]
55. SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mails (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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57. Venturehacks (venturehacks.com) [edit]
58. Graphic.ly Raises $1.2M For Comic Publishing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
59. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
60. SendGrid Raises $750K For Email Delivery Software. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. TechCrunch Staff [edit]
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63. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. Draper via TC [edit]
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66. StockTwits Raises $800K For Twitter-Fueled Stock Community (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
67. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
68. TechCrunchIT (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
69. TechStars (techstars.org) [edit]
70. EDGAR [edit]
71. Widget-maker MadKast raises $300k (venturebeat.com) [edit]
72. David Cohen (davidgcohen.com) [edit]
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