# Dave Knox

> Dave Knox is a seed investor at Nature's Willow (Cincinnati) backing Travel and Leisure. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nature's Willow](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nature-s-willow)
- Location: Cincinnati, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Apr 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/daveknox
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/daveknox
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/daveknox

Dave Knox is a seed investor at Nature's Willow in Cincinnati focused on Travel and Leisure. Dave is co founder & MD at Vine St. Ventures. He attended Miami University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 33% |
| Leisure | 1 | 33% |
| Tourism | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Politics | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hunt Club | Hunt Club is a new category of search firm helping companies leverage the power of relationships and referrals to achieve a better hiring experience. Hunt Club's proprietary technology transforms thousands of subject matter experts into the world’s most powerful network. They built their own technology that gives access to 5 million candidatesreferred from our network of 10,000+ subject matter experts. It connects the network of professionals to partner companies with open positions.Hunt Club was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. | $1.8M |  | Apr 05, 2018 |  |
| CrowdHall | A CrowdHall is a crowd-sourced town hall built on the idea that public discourse with high-profile people & organizations doesn't have to be one-sided. It empowers the crowd to organize its thoughts, articulate its questions, and voice its perspective in a democratic way. | $70K | Seed | Sep 01, 2012 |  |
| Roadtrippers | The first complete road travel planner. Roadtrippers helps travelers drive to the world’s most interesting places by streamlining discovery, planning, booking, and navigation into a single free platform that syncs seamlessly across devices. The Roadtrippers platform gives users real-time access to a unique, curated database of millions ofplaces with concentrated coverage in the US and Canada. The mobile app compliments the comprehensive web trip planner with virtual concierge suggestions, weather forecasts, date-based planning, and specialized cartography.78% of total US travel & tourism spend is by people traveling by road, and long-distance car trips are 3x more frequent than air transportation. Maps are still the most important tool for planning a trip (59% people use digital maps vs. 23% hotel reviews). By building a map-based interface catering to the road travel community, Roadtrippers seizes a huge opportunity that existing travel planning sites focused on airfare overlook. | $250K | Seed | Jun 11, 2012 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Brandery](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-brandery) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CincyTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cincytech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Groupon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/groupon) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ludlow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ludlow-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Network Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/network-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [New Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-coast-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nature's Willow

VC Fund · Cold Spring, United States

Nature's Willow provides natural pain relief for hardworking folks.

1 contacts available at Nature's Willow.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Knox | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-knox |

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## FAQ

### What does Dave Knox invest in?

Dave Knox invests primarily in Travel, Leisure and Tourism startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dave Knox last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dave Knox closed in Apr 2018. Shizune tracks 3 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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