David Arcara
Managing Partner @ Laconia
New York, United States
David Arcara is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Laconia. An entrepreneur turned investor, David has raised nearly $100 million dollars of angel and venture funding. David’s career spans over two decades in young, high-growth and turnaround media and marketing businesses. Previously, he founded DJA Media (acquired by Clear Channel) andco-founded UGO Networks (acquired by Hearst Corporation). He entered the investing world by founding Rubber Soul Ventures, where he focused on investments in emerging digital technology companies. David is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. No stranger to risk, David has been adventure skiing with his kids for 20 years, getting them started right out of the crib. He is also Laconia’s resident sommelier (after hours only, of course).
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries David Arcara invests in
Stages David Arcara invests in
Countries David Arcara invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4.3M
- Series A
- $4M–$7.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (31%)
- SaaS 4 (25%)
- Mobile 3 (19%)
- Film 2 (13%)
- Video 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (69%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Noteworth is connecting healthcare organizations to patient-generated health data and provides software and services that allow clinicians and healthcare organizations to have an unprecedented level of health data clarity for patients outside the clinic.The startup company works with primary care doctors, pediatricians, and specialists to improvepatient engagement on an ongoing basis, whether it be through collecting information on vitals, providing education on diagnosis, and avenues to talk to a doctor via telemedicine or chat. Its HIPAA-compliant, interoperable solution integrates with 400+ FDA-approved clinical devices and delivers patient-generated data directly into an existing electronic medical record (EMR) in actionable, clinically-relevant Noteworth Reports. They position their partners to target costly readmissions, reduce utilization, boost patient satisfaction, and increase the overall quality of care.The Hoboken, New Jersey-based company was founded by Bryan Bonnet, Justin Williams, and Nishant Panchal in 2015. | $5M / Seed / Jul 14, 2020 | ||
| TowerIQ is a broker first platform that brings transparency to insurance markets. The company seamlessly brings clients from application to binding by augmenting broker expertise with a low touch technology platform that distributes ingestible data directly to any carrier. This frees brokers and agents to focus their efforts on solving the businesschallenges facing the clients that allow them to win more business and improve client retention.TowerIQ was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $4.5M / Series A / Jun 08, 2020 | ||
| Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem, automating credit decisions across fintech, mortgage, and banking. The company provides document analysis infrastructure to customers like PayPal, Brex, SoFi, and Plaid, and has raised over $100 million from blue-chip fintech investors. Ocrolus enables financialservices firms to make high quality decisions with trusted data and unparalleled efficiency. | $24M / Series B / Jun 25, 2019 | ||
| TowerIQ is a broker first platform that brings transparency to insurance markets. The company seamlessly brings clients from application to binding by augmenting broker expertise with a low touch technology platform that distributes ingestible data directly to any carrier. This frees brokers and agents to focus their efforts on solving the businesschallenges facing the clients that allow them to win more business and improve client retention.TowerIQ was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2M / Seed / Jul 16, 2018 | ||
| Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem, automating credit decisions across fintech, mortgage, and banking. The company provides document analysis infrastructure to customers like PayPal, Brex, SoFi, and Plaid, and has raised over $100 million from blue-chip fintech investors. Ocrolus enables financialservices firms to make high quality decisions with trusted data and unparalleled efficiency. | $4M / Series A / Apr 09, 2018 | ||
| Sightly is a marketing and media technology company, focusing on digital video advertising and analytics, that delivers unrivaled performance and client service. We use data science and expert human know-how to maximize outcomes and align each customer's Brand Mentality™ at speed, no matter what lies ahead. Our smart, agile approach to mediaplanning, buying and fine tuning extends across YouTube, TikTok, Connected TV and OTT live streaming video and all premium publishers and networks. | $4.3M / Seed / Jan 28, 2014 | ||
| SyncOnSet is an entertainment technology company for digitizing physical production and managing creative content. The company helps optimize workflows and secure communication throughout the project. It streamlines inventory, assets, and photo management, leaving crews with more time to do what they love.Their product is an Emmy-winning softwarefor creative professionals to manage script breakdowns, costumes, props, continuity photos, inventory, and much more. | $2.5M / Seed / Dec 23, 2013 | ||
| TheRunthrough is an online hub that connects fashion tastemakers with the world’s best luxury and emerging brands. It is a members-only site for fashion editors and stylists to view virtual lookbooks. With one click, industry professionals can request sample products or high-res images for their photo shoots, celebrity events, and print and onlinepublications. TheRunthrough simplifies and streamlines the fashion editing process. | $1.2M / Seed / Aug 30, 2013 | ||
| Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform empowering large consumer brands to build a base of authentic advocates, activate them, and learn from their behavior to increase word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy. It specializes in the fields of finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing.The company was founded in 2011 andheadquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $1.4M / Seed / Jul 23, 2013 | ||
| Citia is an easy-to-use system that produces “snackable” content experiences (video, audio, text ++) that flow across devices, websites, text, email, display ads, social media, and—meet today’s fundamentally changed user expectations. Companies now have to communicate across ever-expanding and incompatible channels. With Citia, they makecontent once and it goes everywhere and collects engagement data from all use cases in one simple, human dashboard. As simple to use as PowerPoint, we make it possible to produce more impactful experiences --cheaper and faster than the traditional suppliers and over-engineered platforms.Customers like GE, ViacomCBS, and Atlassian use Citia for fan engagement, sales training, and collateral, organizing multi-channel communication, and many other use cases. Content is content. | $2.2M / Seed / Jan 01, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Laconia
Laconia leads investments in seed-stage B2B companies digitizing legacy industries.
Laconia Contacts
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David Lee
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Geri Kirilova
Managing Partner
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Jeffrey Silverman
Managing Partner
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Allison Esposito Medina
Limited Partner
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David Arcara
Managing Partner
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What does David Arcara invest in?
David Arcara invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 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 David Arcara's check size?
David Arcara typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.3M at Seed and $4M–$7.4M 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 David Arcara participates in.
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When did David Arcara last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Arcara closed in Jul 2020. Shizune tracks 16 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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