Dave Goldberg
Angel Investor
Dave Goldberg is a seed investor focused on SaaS and Software. Mr. Goldberg is a Senior Advisor to TPG. Dave has been Chief Executive Officer of SurveyMonkey.com, LLC since April 2009. He has been a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and technology and music industry executive. He has run, and successfully grown, several online consumer businesses.Mr. Goldberg founded LAUNCH Media Inc. in 1994, whichdelivered music and music-related content online, and he led the company through its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2001. Following the sale, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Music, where he led the company's global music operations and built it into the Internet's most popular music destination. During his tenure, traffic increased from two million to twenty five million unique users per month, and four billion music videos were streamed in 2006 alone. In 2006, Dave was named one of Billboard Magazine's top power players in digital music. Recently Dave served as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Benchmark Capital where he evaluated investment opportunities for the firm and advised portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, Dave was Director of Marketing Strategy and New Business Development at Capitol Records. Dave also serves on the Board of Directors at Ancestry.com and Dashbox.He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA degree in History and Government.
- Total investments:
- 12
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (25%)
- Software 3 (25%)
- Music 2 (17%)
- Video 2 (17%)
- E-Commerce 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (33%)
- Angel 2 (17%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
Investments
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| Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $18.6M / Post-IPO Equity / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| Automattic Inc. is a technology company focused on developing and providing web-based solutions and services. Known for its robust suite of products, Automattic offers WordPress.com for website creation and management, WooCommerce for e-commerce, Jetpack for site performance and security, and other tools aimed at enhancing web functionality. | $300M / Series D / Sep 19, 2019 | ||
| They designed Zeal for the busiest people on Earth - teachers!They’ve invested years into understanding the Common Core, Smarter Balanced and PARCC and created an assessment bank of 10,000 questions which align with the standards and end of year tests. Their adaptive assessment tests each Common Core skill and traces back through its pre-skillsto give you as much information as possible about what each student understands every single day. They save you planning time by helping you focus on the places that your students need you most. | Seed / Apr 01, 2015 | ||
| FilmTrack provides content and rights management solutions for the media and entertainment industries worldwide.The company offers a SaaS-based integrated solution suite that streamlines the intellectual property management lifecycle from project inception to distribution and provides a view into critical data supporting rights, availabilities,contracts, invoicing, licensing, revenue recognition, royalties, and workflow management. Its SaaS-based suite includes StarCM, a content management system that stores critical metadata fields ensuring that data integrity is maintained for content lifecycle from inception to distribution; Avails, a rights manager that provides real-time view of contractual data, including detailed rights-in and rights-out information as well as enables teams to identify and exploit revenue opportunities; Biz Affairs, a contract manager which manages production, underlying rights, and other non-distribution-based contracts as well as creates documents based on business requirements with a document creation tool; InvenTrack, an inventory manager that provides visibility into the location, status, and technical attributes of project-related assets as well as automates production workflow processes; and Extranet, a delivery manager which powers real-time cloud-based distribution of digital assets.The company also offers websites and portals, and executive dashboard services; professional services and consulting, including implementation and configuration, end-user training, custom report generation, third-party accounting package integration, and website development; and customer service and technical support solutions. It serves film and television studios, post-production houses, distributors, consumer brands and licensing companies, digital media agencies, and the education industry.FilmTrack was founded in 1996 and is based in Studio City, California. | Series B / Nov 04, 2014 | ||
| Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative, visual data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate data pipelines, enabling consumable data at any scale. With universal data connectivity, Trifacta provides flexibility to connect to any data from any source for any application. Using an AI-assisted, self-serviceapproach, Trifacta users can collaborate to evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate data transformation, and automate robust data pipelines. Trifacta’s open cloud platform drives increased business value through informed decisions.Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data engineering cloud platform. Learn more at https://www.trifacta.com | $4.3M / Series A / Oct 04, 2012 | ||
| Peatix is a global event registration platform that provides event organizers with powerful tools to create, promote, manage and sell out events of all sizes. Peatix’s innovative, mobile-centric solution for event management has served over 30,000 events since its inception in May 2011. From concerts to conferences, and everything in between,Peatix empowers organizers while enriching the event experience for attendees through social interactions and event discovery in its mobile applications (iPhone, Android) and mobile website. And thanks to the lowest ticketing fees available, and fully customizable event pages, event organizers can promote, sell tickets, and manage their events with considerable ease.Peatix launched in 2011 in Japan, and expanded into the United States and Singapore in 2013. The company's investors include Fidelity Growth Partners Japan, 500 Startups, Digital Garage, Draper Nexus Ventures, Itochu Technology Ventures, Sunbridge Partners, and ZenShin Capital. | Seed / Jul 13, 2012 | ||
| VideoSurf is a video discovery company that helps consumers find what to watch from the world of video in an experience that is uniquely theirs. VideoSurf combines social insights with patented computer vision technology to discover, search and identify videos on any device. In addition to audio recognition, VideoSurf's technology"sees" frames inside videos, providing superior search relevancy and an enhanced user experience. VideoSurf's video discovery mobile app lets users discover, search and identify TV episodes, movies, music videos and video clips by doing a visual and audio search using their smartphone, or by typing a query directly into the app. Users can discover videos by simply pointing their phones at a television or computer screen to capture a few seconds of what they are watching. The VideoSurf mobile app quickly identifies the episode and celebrities, provides more information about what was identified and suggests other videos to watch. In addition, users can share what they are watching and help friends discover new videos by posting directly to Facebook and Twitter. The company was founded by a team of proven entrepreneurs and leading experts in search, multi-grid techniques, computer vision and fast computation. | $16M / Apr 14, 2011 | ||
| Gobbler is the go to marketplace for subscription pro-audio plugins.Think of us as Shopify for creative tools. Gobbler was founded in 2010 by Chris and Jamie Kantrowitz. | $1.3M / Angel / Jan 01, 2011 | ||
| Viki is an international video website offering TV shows, movies, and other premium content translated into more than 150 languages by a community of avid fans. | $4.3M / Series A / Dec 08, 2010 | ||
| Top Prospect is a social recruiting site that rewards people who help their friends find jobs. The best introduction to a company is through a trusted referral, which is why behind every hire, there's a story about who made the first connection. When someone is successfully hired through a connection made on Top Prospect, the person whointroduced them to the company is compensated with a referral bonus. They are further recognized for being the best at finding the right jobs for the right people. Top Prospect broadens the reach of employers and job seekers by making the referral process transparent and accessible. Launch partners include Asana, Path, Rypple and many more with new companies being added everyday. Top Prospect is a privately held company based in San Francisco, Calif. | Seed / Jan 01, 2010 | ||
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FAQ
What does Dave Goldberg invest in?
Dave Goldberg invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Music startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Dave Goldberg closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 12 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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