Call me crazy, but I’m an Angel Investor

I am actively investing in early stage web/software companies through my $5M fund which I originally announced in May of 2009 . My style is to be an engaged investor which means that I like have a good up-to-date sense of what’s going on within each company so that I can try to be helpful in any way possible. I occasionally accept invitations for board seats for companies in which I am an investor and in which I have direct relevant experience. You can see the companies that I have already invested in below. Please feel free to email me your executive summary or a few short paragraphs about your startup. I can usually get back to you very quickly.

Active Investments DebtMarket – Buy/Sell loan portfolios. Foodzie – Taste something different. Graphic.ly – Comic books and friends get connected. Ignighter – Group Dating. isocket – Sell your own commission free ads. Next Big Sound – Actionable intelligence for the music industry. Oblong – Spatial operating environment (think Minority Report – it was them). Plancast – You’ve got plans. Spread the word. Postling – Stay on top of what people are saying about your business. Retel Technologies – Business insight from video surveillance. SendGrid – Email deliverability and scalability. SimpleGeo – Store, scale, and discover geodata. StockTwits – Share ideas and learn from professional investors. Twilio – Build powerful voice and SMS apps. And lots of micro-scale investments via TechStars.

Acquired Investments Brightkite (Limbo) – Mobile social networking. DailyBurn (IAC) – Better fitness results in less time. Filtrbox (Jive Software) – Engage social media Intense Debate (Automattic / WordPress) – Imagine better comments. RouteSmith (Runzheimer) – Route planning and logistics. Socialthing (AOL) – Lifestreaming. Solidware Technologies (Coverity) – Decrease software development risk.

Here’s my CrunchBase profile.

David is the coolest Investor you will ever find!