Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 5
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner
  • Investor Stage  Seed

David Siminoff is Founder, Chairman, and Chief Creative Officer of Shmoop, an educational website. Check out its fine efforts in literature, history, and tons of other stuff.

Prior to Shmoop, he was a Partner at Venrock from 2007-2009.

Prior to Venrock, he served as board member, Chairman, President and CEO of Spark Networks, 2003-2007, a

provider of on-line personal services and the parent company to JDate.

David spent nearly a decade in investment research analysis and portfolio management at Capital Research, making early investments in Yahoo!, AOL, Amazon, and eBay. He later funded and co-founded 4INFO, a mobile search service, along with having made many angel investments. Thanks, Mark.

Formerly, he founded and later sold EastNet, a syndicate barter company, enabling television stations in Eastern Europe to trade American TV programs for advertising time from major brands.

David currently serves on a bunch of boards including Coupons.com where he runs the audit committee.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 4
David Siminoff is the Founder & CCO, Chief Shmoop at Shmoop. Additionally, David Siminoff has had 4 past jobs including PEO at Thompson Peak Capital.
  • Shmoop Founder & CCO, Chief ShmoopMar 1, 2007
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Thompson Peak Capital
PEO20092011
Spark Networks SE
CEO20032007
Venrock
General Partner
Capital Group
Analyst/PM
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 5
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
David Siminoff holds 5 board and advisor roles including Board of Directors at SlideShare, Board of Directors at Tapioca Mobile, and Board of Directors at BlogHer.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Crunchyroll
Board of Directors