# Dave Morgan

> Dave Morgan is a seed investor at Simulmedia (New York) backing Mobile and Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Simulmedia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simulmedia)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemorgan3
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/davemorgannyc

Dave Morgan is a seed investor at Simulmedia in New York focused on Mobile and Software. Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOLin 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$2.5M |
| Angel | $135k–$1.8M |
| Series A | $1.3M–$7.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| Marketing | 2 | 14% |
| Advertising | 2 | 14% |
| Social Network | 2 | 14% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Angel | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 64% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HIMERA | Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| HIMERA | Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations. | $150K | Seed | Oct 11, 2024 |  |
| Ombu | Ombu uses invisible digital watermarks to connect mobile devices and facilitate the sharing of digital information when you are face-to-face. With Ombu, it is very easy to exchange contacts, social networks, websites, images, files, and practically anything else digital all at once and in the moment. | $135K | Angel | Mar 31, 2013 |  |
| Namely | Namely is an all-in-one platform that manages all HR data in one place, with personalized service to help companies get better and faster. The company's early service offering included HR information system, social newsfeed, payroll, and performance management tools.Namely give companies the software and support they need to evolve theircompany cultures It has evolved along with company needs. They handle administration and compliance across HR, payroll, time, and benefits, so HR teams can focus on developing their people and providing a great employee experience.Name was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA. | $750K | Seed | Oct 18, 2012 |  |
| GateGuru | GateGuru is a mobile application that provides a seamless platform to travelers to revolutionize how they experience their "day-of" travel. Web-based businesses have largely democratized the planning and booking experiences around travel, but the actual "day-of" travel is a very large, untapped market - GateGuru is leading thischarge. GateGuru currently works on iOS and Android devices. The Company which is led by former venture capitalist Dan Gellert, closed their initial round of financing in May 2011. Investors in the round included Chamath Palihapitiya, Allen Morgan, Brad Harrison (BH Ventures), Tom Glocer, Matt Daimler (SeatGuru Founder), Thomas Lehrman and several other prominent angel investors. | $500K |  | Aug 29, 2012 |  |
| Shelby.tv | Shelby.tv is the best way to discover and enjoy web video. Now available in the App Store, the Shelby.tv app delivers you a personalized channel of videos from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, Blip, and DailyMotion, as well as video shared by your friends on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. Over time, Shelby.tv gets smart about what you like anddon’t like and improves recommendations to give you that perfect daily dose of video entertainment. | $2.2M | Series A | Jul 31, 2012 |  |
| CasaHop | CasaHop helps you find home exchanges. They use your social networks to help you find the perfect home exchanges, with people you can trust. You stay in their homes, they stay in yours. CasaHop can be used for vacations and weekend getaways. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 26, 2012 |  |
| Namely | Namely is an all-in-one platform that manages all HR data in one place, with personalized service to help companies get better and faster. The company's early service offering included HR information system, social newsfeed, payroll, and performance management tools.Namely give companies the software and support they need to evolve theircompany cultures It has evolved along with company needs. They handle administration and compliance across HR, payroll, time, and benefits, so HR teams can focus on developing their people and providing a great employee experience.Name was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA. | $1M | Angel | Jan 17, 2012 |  |
| Fab | Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab inFebruary 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015. | $7.7M | Series A | Aug 11, 2011 |  |
| Shelby.tv | Shelby.tv is the best way to discover and enjoy web video. Now available in the App Store, the Shelby.tv app delivers you a personalized channel of videos from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, Blip, and DailyMotion, as well as video shared by your friends on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. Over time, Shelby.tv gets smart about what you like anddon’t like and improves recommendations to give you that perfect daily dose of video entertainment. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 14, 2011 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Freedom Fund VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freedom-fund-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Green Flag Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-flag-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nezlamni Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nezlamni-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Simulmedia

VC Fund · New York, United States

Simulmedia is making TV advertising better by bringing web-like advertising techniques to television, today. Their technology is powered by the largest anonymous TV viewing database ever created. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States.

5 contacts available at Simulmedia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Morgan | CEO & Founder & Vice President, Sports Digital News | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-morgan |
| Adam Quinn | VP, Sales and Strategic Accounts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-quinn-09e0 |
| Avi Shafar | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avi-shafar |
| Conor Finnegan | VP, Advertising Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conor-finnegan |
| Grace Mashore | Director, Product Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grace-mashore |

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## FAQ

### What does Dave Morgan invest in?

Dave Morgan invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Marketing startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 14 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 Morgan's check size?

Dave Morgan typically joins rounds of $150k–$2.5M at Seed, $135k–$1.8M at Angel and $1.3M–$7.7M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dave Morgan participates in.

### When did Dave Morgan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dave Morgan closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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