# David Beisel

> David Beisel is a seed investor at NextView Ventures (New York) backing Software and Internet. See 67 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NextView Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextview-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 67
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbeisel
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/davidbeisel
- Website: https://www.davidbeisel.com/
- Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/dbeisel

David Beisel is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm with offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco. The NextView Ventures team are high conviction, hands-on seed investors, championing founders who want to redesign the Everyday Economy. David's investments include Attentive, TripleLift, CodeClimate, Parsec, BookBub, thredUP, Hatch, and TapCommerce (acquired by Twitter for $100M).Prior to NextView, David served as a Vice President at Venrock (early stage VC firm originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family). Previously, David co-founded Sombasa Media, an e-mail marketing company best known for its flagship property BargainDog.com, which he grew to 5M registered members. Sombasa was successfully acquired by About.com, which was soon after acquired by Primedia (NYSE: PRM), where he was Vice President of Marketing.David's educational background includes an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB in Economics, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Duke University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 13% |
| Internet | 6 | 9% |
| SaaS | 4 | 6% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 6% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 6% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 25% |
| Series A | 10 | 15% |
| Series B | 8 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 9% |
| Series C | 2 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Walden Robotics | Walden Robotics is an industrial robotics company that builds and deploys general-purpose, semi-humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics. | $300M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Schematic | Schematic allows businesses to outsource pricing and packaging with a few lines of code, enabling them to quickly launch new packaging models, take the burden off of engineering, and flexibly adjust their pricing and packaging to individual customer preferences. The platform enhances existing billing systems like Stripe by offering tools formanaging pricing, entitlements, and usage-based metering. This allows SaaS businesses to efficiently handle subscriptions, plan updates, and customer access to features without the need for extensive custom-built solutions. | $6.5M | Seed | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Opus | Opus is a hospitality training platform purpose-built for the frontline that provides digital tools to help service staff learn skills, complete training modules, and access performance resources. The platform offers structured learning pathways, micro-lessons, and interactive content tailored to operational roles such as servers, housekeepers,bartenders, and guest services teams. It supports onboarding, upskilling, and continuous education by enabling employees to engage with training materials on mobile devices and track progress through competency checklists. Opus also includes features for managers to assign courses, monitor completion rates, and align training activities with service standards and operational needs. The platform integrates assessment and feedback mechanisms that help learners reinforce knowledge and demonstrate proficiency in core hospitality tasks. Through its digital training infrastructure, Opus supports workforce development and skill alignment within hospitality environments. | $9M | Series B | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Poly | Poly is a web tool for generating design assets with AI, including textures, graphics, icons, sprites, and more. With a simple text prompt, you get unlimited customizable, 4K UHD, and commercially-licensed creative assets that match your color and style within seconds. | $8M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Evertune | Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services | $15M | Series A | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Evertune | Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services | $4M | Seed | Oct 04, 2024 |  |
| Tristar AI | Tristar AI is a software development company that provides AI-enabled manufacturing solutions. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Schematic | Schematic allows businesses to outsource pricing and packaging with a few lines of code, enabling them to quickly launch new packaging models, take the burden off of engineering, and flexibly adjust their pricing and packaging to individual customer preferences. The platform enhances existing billing systems like Stripe by offering tools formanaging pricing, entitlements, and usage-based metering. This allows SaaS businesses to efficiently handle subscriptions, plan updates, and customer access to features without the need for extensive custom-built solutions. | $3.5M | Seed | May 23, 2024 |  |
| Expressable | Expressable is an online speech therapy practice for everyone with a communication disorder. It has pioneered a parent-focused care model that uses technology and education to integrate speech therapy techniques into children's daily lives, improving outcomes and experiences.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin,Texas. | $26M | Series B | May 20, 2024 |  |
| Carewell | Carewell is a Charlotte-based, family-founded e-commerce company with a mission to improve the lives of caregivers and their loved ones. Carewell’s story began in 2015 when its founders were among the 20% of Americans who act as informal caregivers. They were unable to find the guidance and selection they needed in one place, so they formedCarewell to be a source of support for independent caregivers seeking proactive service, compelling content, and expert-vetted products. | $24.7M | Series B | Feb 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 67 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Trinity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trinity-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About NextView Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

NextView Ventures is a high-conviction, hands-on seed VC with a thematic investing focus. NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity.

5 contacts available at NextView Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Beisel | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-beisel |
| Rob Go | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-go |
| Stephanie Palmeri | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steph-palmeri |
| Lee Hower | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lee-hower |
| Melody Koh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melody-koh |

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## FAQ

### What does David Beisel invest in?

David Beisel invests primarily in Software, Internet and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 67 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 David Beisel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Beisel closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 67 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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