# David Carrico

> David Carrico is a seed investor at JLabs backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [JLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jlabs-llc)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidacarrico
- Website: https://www.jlabsllc.com/home-2

David Carrico is a seed investor at JLabs in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. David Carrico

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$10M |
| Series A | $4M–$29M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 14% |
| SaaS | 3 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 11% |
| Media and Entertainment | 3 | 11% |

85 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 79% |
| Series A | 4 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 89% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kibu | Kibu is a DC-based platform that helps individuals and organizations verify and understand who they’re interacting with when it matters most. | $10.5M | Seed | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| Campus | Campuswire is a real-time messaging app for college classes that streamlines class discussions, Q&A, and announcements. The company on a mission to optimize the world’s teaching and learning. They are assembling a world-class team of engineers, designers, pedagogists, and more to solve problems in teaching and learning. | $29M | Series A | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Capsule | Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $5.7M | Seed | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| Kona | Kona is the burnout prevention platform for remote teams which was built for Slack. Without leaving Slack, Kona transforms leadership best practices into doable routines and workforce analytics. Remote businesses can then scale the most positive aspects of their cultures. Kona was established in 2021 in Los Angeles, California. | $4M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Kona | Kona is the burnout prevention platform for remote teams which was built for Slack. Without leaving Slack, Kona transforms leadership best practices into doable routines and workforce analytics. Remote businesses can then scale the most positive aspects of their cultures. Kona was established in 2021 in Los Angeles, California. | $4M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Para | At Para we're building a better gig economy by focusing on the most important part - the worker. Our app helps drivers choose better trips, reduce downtime, and find the best opportunities more efficiently. With Para, workers gig smarter, work safer, and earn more. | $14.9M | Series A | Jul 10, 2022 |  |
| Metaphysic | Metaphysic is a creator of a program for creating synthetic media that aims to advance the limits of human expression through ethical use.The company's software reconstructs low-resolution film, makes natural-looking facial representations, enables editing of expressions, facial characteristics, or full faces, and reconstructs low-resolutionfootage, enabling content makers to use artificial intelligence in their work. | $7.5M | Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Fireside | Fireside is the next evolution of Storytelling. It is where the world's greatest creators go to bring the audience into the story through live, interactive, virtual shows. Co-founded by Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi, Fireside gives creators the unprecedented power to distribute shows everywhere with the click of a button, understand what theiraudiences want more of with sophisticated analytics and connect with those audiences in real time. The next media empires are emerging on Fireside...all through the power of Story. | $10M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Breadcrumbs App | Breadcrumbs is a blockchain analytics platform accessible to everyone. It offers a range of tools for investigating, monitoring, tracking and sharing relevant information on blockchain transactions. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| Rollfi | Rollfi is a financial platform that offers cryptocurrency, online payment, electronic fund transfers, and transaction information services. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blue Moon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2-12-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evolutionary Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolutionary-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About JLabs

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

JLabs, LLC advises the technology industry in areas of leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

2 contacts available at JLabs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Carrico | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-carrico |
| Judith Estrin | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/judith-l-estrin |

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## FAQ

### What does David Carrico invest in?

David Carrico invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 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 Carrico's check size?

David Carrico typically joins rounds of $1M–$10M at Seed and $4M–$29M 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 Carrico participates in.

### When did David Carrico last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Carrico closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 28 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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