# Dave Johnson

> Dave Johnson is a seed investor at Adobe (San Francisco) backing Software and Developer Tools. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Adobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adobe-systems)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davejohnson

Dave Johnson is a seed investor at Adobe in San Francisco focused on Software and Developer Tools. Dave Johnson - Director of Engineering, PhoneGap @ Adobe

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$2.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 80% |
| Developer Tools | 3 | 60% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |
| Computer | 1 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hack Capital Ventures | Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently. | $750K | Seed | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| StackShare | StackShare is a community that helps developers and engineers discover and compare software tools. Our vision is to transform how SaaS tools and infrastructure are bought and sold.Choosing SaaS and cloud infrastructure tools is difficult. If you’re a developer looking for a hosting solution, you have hundreds of options and no clear way to siftthrough them all. We’ve built a community of developers, engineers, CTOs, and VPEs that recommend, review, and share their technology stacks. They have significant buying power and a need for tooling and infrastructure services, from startups to large enterprises. The options they have are confusing and increasing in number by the day - they’re desperate to get help choosing the right solutions. StackShare lets technologists see all the best tools and services, who are using them, and why. | $5.2M | Series A | Jan 09, 2018 |  |
| Buddybuild | Buddybuild ties together continuous integration, continuous delivery and an iterative feedback solution into a single, seamless platform.No more cobbling together disparate systems to meet your mobile development needs.With buddybuild, you can focus on what matters most: creating awesome apps.Buddybuild is the only mobile continuous integrationand delivery platform that takes just minutes to set up. With every code change, buddybuild will kick off a new build and run any tests for your app. Then, with a simple screenshot, testers can send their feedback along with diagnostic details to help resolve issues. Stop cobbling together and maintaining disparate mobile development systems. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 23, 2016 |  |
| LaunchDarkly | LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOpsteams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 04, 2015 |  |
| CareGuide | CareGuide is a family of online services and our mission is simple: pair families and individuals with great care providers. With thousands of user profiles, you'll be able to find the best care provider for you, in your area, in just about any industry. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 14, 2014 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cervin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cervin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Conconi Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conconi-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Zero Prime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-community-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Adobe

VC Fund · San Jose, United States

Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions. Its tools and services allow its customers to create ground-breaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. The company helps its customers make, manage, measure,and monetize their content across every channel and screen. Its main products include Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Freehand, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and many others. Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Their tools and services allow their customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. Adobe helps their customers make, manage, measure, and monetize their content across every channel and screen.

5 contacts available at Adobe.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anjul Bhambhri | Senior Vice President, Adobe Experience Cloud | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anjul-bhambhri |
| Christina Leigh Morgan | Group Manager, Growth + Engagement \| Document Cloud Mobile | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-morgan-2 |
| Dave Johnson | Director of Engineering, PhoneGap | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-johnson |
| James Lockman | Principal Cloud Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-lockman |
| Maarten Van Horenbeeck | SVP & Chief Security Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maarten-van-horenbeeck |

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## FAQ

### What does Dave Johnson invest in?

Dave Johnson invests primarily in Software, Developer Tools and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Dave Johnson typically joins rounds of $750k–$2.6M 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 Johnson participates in.

### When did Dave Johnson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dave Johnson closed in Feb 2018. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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