# Dave Carlson

> Dave Carlson is a seed investor at eonCapital (Centennial) backing Mobile and Finance. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [eonCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eonbusiness-venture-capital)
- Location: Centennial, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2011
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegcarlson/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/davegcarlson
- Website: https://x.com/davegcarlson

Dave Carlson is a seed investor at eonCapital in Centennial focused on Mobile and Finance. Dave Carlson is the Founder and Managing Director of eonBusiness. Dave established eonBusiness in 1997 to meet the needs of start-ups and early development stage companies for building Internet based businesses. He has founded five businesses with three successful exits to date while supporting dozens of other companies. While eonBusiness startedas primarily a web development services organization, it transitioned to an incubator and then subsequently a boutique venture capital firm investing in software as a service (SaaS) and mobile opportunities.Dave is actively involved as an advisor to numerous eonBusiness portfolio companies. He also currently serves on the board of directors of mobileStorm for eonBusiness.Dave also serves as a Mentor to the TechStars mentorship driven seed stage investment program.In 2001 Dave founded and incubated GO TOAST and subsequently started eonMedia in 2002. Both companies were acquired in 2003 by aQuantive which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Other personal startups include eonBusiness, AllAboardToys.com (acquired in 2008) and HomePoint.Prior to founding eonBusiness, Dave was a senior executive at EchoStar (DISH Network) for 12 years, where he was an integral part of the launch of the DISH Network and the initiation of EchoStar's global business expansion. Dave's EchoStar career included a six-year stint in The Netherlands as Managing Director of European, African and Middle Eastern Operations.Dave earned a B.A. in Communications with a minor in Business Administration at Bethany College and a Masters Degree in International Business Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $175k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 29% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Digital Media | 2 | 29% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 29% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Testlio | Testlio helps businesses deliver amazing customer experiences by providing a community of highly vetted testers and an end-to-end QA management platform. They assemble your dedicated QA dream team from their vetted, experienced, and passionate tester community. Their platform seamlessly integrates into the tools that you already use andconnects you with the team giving you a high degree of visibility. They work around the clock and around the world, on any platform, so you hit every deadline and launch better products, faster.Their customers include Microsoft, Lyft, Salesforce, CBS Interactive, Flipboard, Strava. Learn more at testlio.com | $1M | Convertible Note | Nov 28, 2014 |  |
| ExpenseBot | ExpenseBot is a developer of an expense management platform used to make business expense reporting easier. The company's software automates the process of filling out expense reports by pulling in information from calendar apps, e-mail, credit card purchase reports, and even a phone’s GPS software. It’s powered by artificial intelligencesoftware that can remind users to file expense actions like meals or a commute.ExpenseBot was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. | $175K | Seed | Sep 09, 2014 |  |
| GoChime | GoChime allows brands to leverage their first-party data to run smarter and more unified advertising campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Brands sync their ESP and CRM platforms to GoChime and can bridge the data that lives there to outside social advertising platforms. This approach allows brands to use several channelsto automatically move customers through a specified journey or conversion funnel, reach customers who do not open or otherwise engage in email marketing, and then easily create lookalike audiences of their best customers to find more great customers outside of their own lists. | $630K | Angel | Mar 01, 2014 |  |
| Rapt Media | Rapt Media (formerly FlixMaster) is a cloud-based platform that enables businesses and entrepreneurs to create interactive videos for marketing, education, entertainment, selling, and training purposes and interact with their customers online. The company also offers solutions in the areas of creative services, branching, link outs, site pairing,and strategy aspects. The videos are available on browsers, tablets, and handheld devices.Rapt Media was launched by Erika Trautman and Cameron McCaddon in 2011 and is operated from Colorado, United States. | $4.4M | Series A | Jan 23, 2013 |  |
| Highlighter | Highlighter aims to dramatically reduce the cost of textbooks while dramatically increasing student engagement on any online content. Highlighter's HTML5 reader allows professors/teachers to publish PDF and ePUB documents for free, accessible on any device, with unprecedented engagement by highlighting, annotating, commenting, sharing andsaving over snippets of text. | $330K | Seed | Dec 01, 2011 |  |
| Mocavo | Mocavo.com™ (http://www.mocavo.com), a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words – including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com fills an importantindustry need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family history research. Coupled with the speed and accuracy by which search results are produced, Mocavo.com represents a major technological breakthrough within the genealogy world. | $1M |  | Sep 30, 2011 |  |
| Mocavo | Mocavo.com™ (http://www.mocavo.com), a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words – including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com fills an importantindustry need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family history research. Coupled with the speed and accuracy by which search results are produced, Mocavo.com represents a major technological breakthrough within the genealogy world. | $1M | Seed | Sep 30, 2011 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Click Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/click-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [eonCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eonbusiness-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Upslope Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galvanize) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Geekdom Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geekdom-fund-l-p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About eonCapital

VC Fund · Centennial, United States

eonCapital is a Colorado-based venture capital investment firm focused on innovative SaaS-based startups. It assists entrepreneurs in launching and developing various web-based businesses, providing them with internet marketing strategy and web development services.

2 contacts available at eonCapital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rob Hooke | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-hooke |
| Dave Carlson | Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-carlson |

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## FAQ

### What does Dave Carlson invest in?

Dave Carlson invests primarily in Mobile, Finance and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dave Carlson's check size?

Dave Carlson typically joins rounds of $175k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dave Carlson participates in.

### When did Dave Carlson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dave Carlson closed in Sep 2011. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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