# Dave Munichiello

> Dave Munichiello is a seed investor at Segment backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Segment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/segment-io)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davemuni
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/davemuni
- Website: http://www.gv.com/team/dave-munichiello/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davemuni

Dave Munichiello is a general partner at GV and was a Director at Lattice. He attended Harvard Business School and Emory University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 32% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 17% |
| Analytics | 6 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 13% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 23% |
| Series B | 9 | 19% |
| Series A | 8 | 17% |
| Series C | 6 | 13% |
| Series D | 5 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wonder | Wonder is a food technology company that operates a mealtime platform offering restaurant meals, prepared foods, meal kits, and food delivery through a unified ordering experience. It develops and manages food preparation, ordering, and delivery using proprietary technology, including its Infinite Kitchen food robotics platform. The companypartners with chefs and restaurant brands to provide a variety of meal options that customers can order through its platform. It also manages the preparation and fulfillment process to support delivery and pickup services across its locations. Additionally, Wonder expands its food ecosystem through the operation and integration of restaurant concepts, meal kit services, and delivery capabilities. | $650M | Series D | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Rox | Rox provides an artificial intelligence software platform that supports sales teams with account research, engagement planning, and monitoring of customer activity. The platform uses a system of AI agents that gather and analyze information from internal systems and external sources to organize customer data and surface relevant insights. Itgenerates meeting briefs, territory summaries, and follow-up recommendations while tracking interactions across communication channels and customer records. Rox integrates with tools such as CRM platforms, messaging systems, and calendars to synchronize information and maintain updated records across workflows. The system also assists with drafting outreach messages and identifying account changes or engagement signals so sales teams can plan actions and manage ongoing relationships with customers. |  | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Flapping Airplanes | Flapping Airplanes is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on advancing foundational AI technologies with an emphasis on data-efficient model development and fundamental research into next-generation learning approaches. The organization’s work centers on exploring alternative training paradigms that reduce dependency on massivedatasets and compute scale, aiming to enable systems that learn with efficiency more akin to human cognition rather than brute-force training methods. Its team includes researchers and technical experts pursuing long-horizon scientific challenges in AI architecture, training mechanisms, and algorithmic innovation. Flapping Airplanes engages with investors and collaborators to support its research agenda, backing efforts that expand the theoretical and practical frontiers of artificial intelligence without immediate commercial product constraints. While the lab operates primarily as a research-first initiative, its findings are intended to inform future applications in areas such as enterprise AI, robotics, scientific discovery, and decision systems. The company’s strategy reflects a shift away from traditional scale-focused AI development toward exploring deep, principled advances in learning efficiency and model capabilities. | $180M | Seed | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Modular | Modular provides an AI infrastructure platform designed for GPU portability and unparalleled performance in AI workloads. The platform features serverless inference endpoints, fine-tuning services, and training clusters to simplify the journey from AI development to production. Modular offers solutions for high-speed LLM serving and cross-hardwarestack management for NVIDIA and AMD environments. | $250M | Series C | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Blue Water Autonomy | Blue Water Autonomy develops fully autonomous, unmanned ships designed from the keel up for long-endurance missions. Its vessels, about 100 feet and 100 tons, are purpose-built for open-ocean operations with modular payloads for logistics, surveillance, or munitions. The ships integrate hardware, software, and AI systems to operate independentlyover long durations. They are engineered for mass producibility, using medium-sized shipyards to keep production simpler and more cost-effective than traditional crewed ships. While initially focused on defense applications, the company also targets future use in commercial sectors such as cargo shipping, offshore energy, and other demanding maritime operations. | $50M | Series A | Aug 26, 2025 |  |
| Redpanda Data | Redpanda is pioneering the agentic data plane - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders includingActivision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day. Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe. To learn more, visit our website at redpanda.com and follow us on X at @redpandadata. | $100M | Series D | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| MirrorTab | MirrorTab specializes in providing pixel streaming technology aimed at enhancing web application security. This technology offers a proactive defense mechanism by creating secure virtual representations of web applications, effectively protecting customer interactions from client-side security threats. MirrorTab's solutions are designed toprioritize customer trust and security, making it a suitable choice for teams focused on safeguarding their web applications against cyber threats. The company's approach to cybersecurity emphasizes the importance of protecting web apps in a manner that is both innovative and focused on maintaining the integrity of customer data. | $8.5M | Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Wonder | Wonder is a food technology company that operates a mealtime platform offering restaurant meals, prepared foods, meal kits, and food delivery through a unified ordering experience. It develops and manages food preparation, ordering, and delivery using proprietary technology, including its Infinite Kitchen food robotics platform. The companypartners with chefs and restaurant brands to provide a variety of meal options that customers can order through its platform. It also manages the preparation and fulfillment process to support delivery and pickup services across its locations. Additionally, Wonder expands its food ecosystem through the operation and integration of restaurant concepts, meal kit services, and delivery capabilities. | $700M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Rox | Rox provides an artificial intelligence software platform that supports sales teams with account research, engagement planning, and monitoring of customer activity. The platform uses a system of AI agents that gather and analyze information from internal systems and external sources to organize customer data and surface relevant insights. Itgenerates meeting briefs, territory summaries, and follow-up recommendations while tracking interactions across communication channels and customer records. Rox integrates with tools such as CRM platforms, messaging systems, and calendars to synchronize information and maintain updated records across workflows. The system also assists with drafting outreach messages and identifying account changes or engagement signals so sales teams can plan actions and manage ongoing relationships with customers. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Polar Signals | Polar Signals is a profiling platform designed to measure and understand performance over time. | $6.8M | Seed | Jan 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 31 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About Segment

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Segment provides the customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first. Using Segment, companies can collect, unify, and connect their first-party to over 200 marketing, analytics, and data warehouse tools. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Segment.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angela Haddad | Creative Director, Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angela-haddad-88d3 |
| Ian Storm Taylor | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-storm-taylor |
| Lesley Young | VP Global Commercial Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lesley-young |
| Alan Braithwaite | Programmer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-braithwaite-44e7 |
| Dave Munichiello | Investor & Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-munichiello |

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## FAQ

### What does Dave Munichiello invest in?

Dave Munichiello invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 47 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 Munichiello last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dave Munichiello closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 47 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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