# David Carlick

> David Carlick is a Series B investor at Adventure Capital backing Social Media and Analytics. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Adventure Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adventure-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2019
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlick
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/carlick

David Carlick is a digital media veteran and an Independent Director working with a variety of companies in the online media and marketing space. David is a venture partner at Rho Ventures where he focuses on early stage investments in digital media and marketing.Current boards include ReachLocal (NASDAQ, RLOC) a global leader in digital mediaservices to SMB, where he is Chairman; Grocery Shopping Network (private,) providing online services to grocery chains and their shoppers; Effective Measure (private,) Australian based internet measurement company analyzing traffic of over 600mm users in Oceana, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Africa; Brandscreen, leading DSP in Southeast Asia; and Adventure Capital, an early stage Australian seed stage venture firm.Prior, David was a managing director and venture partner of VantagePoint Venture Partners, where he was involved in numerous investments, including Intermix Media (parent company of MySpace,) and ReachLocal.Past board positions include Founding Director at International Network Services (NASDAQ INSS,) sold to Lucent 1999; Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ ASKJ,) sold to IAC in 2005; Chairman Intermix Media (AMEX IMIX,) parent of MySpace, acquired by News Corp 2005; ReachLocal Australia, acquired by ReachLocal in 2009; and founding director at I/Pro, early internet measurement company (acquired by CMGI 2001.)His business experience also includes founding Carlick Advertising (acquired by Poppe Tyson in 1993) after nearly 15 years serving technology startups such as Cypress Semiconductor, Network Equipment Technologies, Network General and Silicon Graphics. He became Executive Vice President at Poppe Tyson, where he co-founded poppe.com, which spun out and merged with Modem Media (NASDAQ: MMPT,) and DoubleClick, which was spun out, went public and was subsequently sold to Google.He holds a B.S. in business accounting from San Jose State University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Media | 3 | 33% |
| Analytics | 2 | 22% |
| Publishing | 2 | 22% |
| Advertising | 2 | 22% |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 22% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series F | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 67% |
| India | 1 | 11% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CodeStream | CodeStream puts team chat directly into today’s most popular IDEs, making it easier for developers to talk about code and write software together. Build for coders by coders, its service helps software teams accelerate their development cycles and reduce technical debt through faster, easier communication. | $5.5M | Seed | Aug 06, 2019 |  |
| XGraph | Formerly a standalone company, XGraph is now part of AddThis. It serves as the first social targeting platform to use multi-graph data analysis to target Connected Audiences. XGraph's approach is based on the proven premise that people who share similar lifestyles, values, and purchasing habits with an advertiser's core customers are theoptimal audience for targeting display advertising. Social network analysis applied to privacy-friendly data is the core of XGraph's unique multi-graph methodology, enabling high-value targeting at scale. | $3.8M | Series A | Jul 07, 2010 |  |
| Narratiive | Narratiive, previously known as Effective Measure is the leading and most trusted audience measurement platform in MENA and South Africa. | $4M | Series A | Feb 17, 2010 |  |
| Zvents | Zvents is a leading producer of local entertainment guides online, helping more than 12 million monthly users find fun and interesting things to do in their local area, and helping thousands of event advertisers increase attendance at their events. More than 15,000 event advertisers work with Zvents every month to promote a wide range of localevents and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities. The company was founded in March 2005 to help people discover events in the Bay Area, but has since expanded to include information about events across most cities in the US, as well as events in the UK, Canada and Ireland. The Zvents Network includes more than 290 media sites, including leading local sites like SFGate.com, the San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News as well as large national partners like Bing, MSN.com and YP.com. Key differentiators for the business are their large network of media partners, a unique and powerful time-based local search technology, and a vibrant community of content contributors across all markets and event categories. Traffic from the Zvents Media Network has nearly doubled in the last 12 months according to Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/p-54UqpxMM201CU. | $24M | Series B | Sep 30, 2008 |  |
| Multiply | With over two hundred thousand merchants, Multiply is the largest marketplace in Southeast Asia. The service started life as a social networking site in 2004, bringing innovations such as the news feed to the industry, but has evolved into the purest example of social shopping on the web today. The shops, the products, the transactions, and ofcourse, the buyers, all live within the Multiply ecosystem.Multiply's ecommerce platform offers sellers a combination of ecommerce and social communications tools that can not be found on any other site.Multiply was acquired by Naspers in the fall of 2010, and is headquartered in Jakarta with an additional office in Manila. | $16.6M | Series B | Aug 01, 2007 |  |
| Zvents | Zvents is a leading producer of local entertainment guides online, helping more than 12 million monthly users find fun and interesting things to do in their local area, and helping thousands of event advertisers increase attendance at their events. More than 15,000 event advertisers work with Zvents every month to promote a wide range of localevents and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities. The company was founded in March 2005 to help people discover events in the Bay Area, but has since expanded to include information about events across most cities in the US, as well as events in the UK, Canada and Ireland. The Zvents Network includes more than 290 media sites, including leading local sites like SFGate.com, the San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News as well as large national partners like Bing, MSN.com and YP.com. Key differentiators for the business are their large network of media partners, a unique and powerful time-based local search technology, and a vibrant community of content contributors across all markets and event categories. Traffic from the Zvents Media Network has nearly doubled in the last 12 months according to Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/p-54UqpxMM201CU. | $7M | Series A | Nov 07, 2006 |  |
| Datran Media | Datran Media is a leading digital marketing technology company that helps advertisers and publishers discover and reach their ideal audiences. Backed by award-winning technology and strategy, Datran Media provides digital advertising solutions, audience measurement and analytics, email marketing services and media monetization. More than 1,000 topconsumer brands have relied on Datran Media to deliver campaigns that exceed their branding, acquisition, retention and monetization goals.In September 2011, Datran Media merged with | $60M | Series F | Mar 01, 2005 |  |
| All Business | All Business is a leading online resource for businesses. The Company operates one of the Web's premier business sites, providing practical information and services for business professionals and growing businesses. The site includes how-to articles and videos, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news,directory listings, business guides and more. In addition to its flagship Web site, the Company's content can be accessed by its content syndication program, RSS feeds and e-mail newsletters. The company was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in December 2007. | $10M | Series B | Jul 01, 2004 |  |
| PlanetOut | PlanetOut, Inc. is a leading global online media company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered, or LGBT, community, a market with reported buying power of approximately $485 billion annually in the United States alone. Their network of websites, including their flagship websites Gay.com and PlanetOut allows their members, or thosevisitors who registered on their websites by providing them with a name, e-mail address and other personal data, to connect with other members of the LGBT community around the world. According to Nielsen NetRatings, in June 2004, Gay.com ranked second in terms of average time online per person and sixteenth in terms of visits per person among all websites measured. They generate most of their revenue from subscription fees for premium membership services that they offer in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish to their members who identify themselves as residing in more than 100 countries. They also generate revenue from online advertising and e-commerce targeted to the LGBT community. | $16.4M | Series B | Sep 28, 1999 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PJC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pjc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bright Stone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akashi-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asia Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asia-alpha) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AT&T](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-t) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NSV Wolf Management, LLC.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/netservice-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nokia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nokia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Adventure Capital

VC Fund · Melbourne, Australia

Adventure Capital is a leading Australian early-stage technology venture fund. Adventure Capital is intently focused on advancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem benefiting from Australia’s significant human capital and intellectual property by providing opportunities for innovative, driven and intelligent entrepreneurs to reach their fullpotential.Adventure Capital’s current fund, the Digital Accelerator LP, is a super-angel style venture fund focused on finding and guiding early-stage tech companies that are capital-efficient, and have global ambition and potential to succeed.Adventure Capital is Founding Investor of the York Butter Factory, a co-working space for high-potential seed-stage companies and next generation building management platform EQUiEM. The Digital Accelerator fund portfolio includes world #1 mobile publishing platform Oomph, leading AdTech DSP/RTB Brandscreen (acquired by Zenovia), social media platform Peazie, retail activation tool suite Myagi, education sales and marketing augmentation and optimization solutions provider doMore, and breakout technology businesses 121cast and Axiflux.

4 contacts available at Adventure Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Darcy Naunton | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darcy-naunton |
| David Carlick | Chairman & Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-carlick |
| Safwan Shah | Group Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/safwan-shah |
| Stuart Richardson | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-richardson |

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## FAQ

### What does David Carlick invest in?

David Carlick invests primarily in Social Media, Analytics and Publishing startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Carlick last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Carlick closed in Aug 2019. Shizune tracks 9 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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