# David Cohen

> David Cohen is a seed investor at Techstars Riyadh Accelerator backing Software and Mobile. See 83 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Techstars Riyadh Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars-riyadh-accelerator)
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 83
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgcohen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/davidcohen
- Website: http://www.davidgcohen.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dgcohen23

David Cohen is a seed investor at Techstars Riyadh Accelerator in Boulder focused on Software and Mobile. David Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Techstars. He previously worked at Wunder Capital as a Board Member. David Cohen attended the University of Central Florida.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $20k–$2M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$8.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 22% |
| Mobile | 11 | 13% |
| Finance | 10 | 12% |
| Advertising | 9 | 11% |
| SaaS | 8 | 10% |

118 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 50 | 60% |
| Series A | 17 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 5% |
| Angel | 3 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 63 | 76% |
| India | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Favs | Favs is a social networking platform for close friends. Favs was founded in 2023 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Anything World | Anything World combines AI, speech computing, and 3D rendering with layers of behavioral intelligence. It allows users to save time by combining voice and text commands. | $7.5M | Seed | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| InstaCar | We are changing road travel in India ride by ride. As a fast-growing taxi rental marketplace, we have one goal - making each road trip a safe and happy one. Attempting to fill the gap of hailing outstation taxis, Instacar is simplifying the process of booking rented outstation cars by providing a democratic marketplace. To talk tech and more, hitus up at info@instacar.in. |  | Seed | Oct 21, 2019 |  |
| InstaCar | We are changing road travel in India ride by ride. As a fast-growing taxi rental marketplace, we have one goal - making each road trip a safe and happy one. Attempting to fill the gap of hailing outstation taxis, Instacar is simplifying the process of booking rented outstation cars by providing a democratic marketplace. To talk tech and more, hitus up at info@instacar.in. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 04, 2019 |  |
| Chowbotics by DoorDash | The company aims to use robots to solve several problems in the foodservice industry including compromised cleanliness and inefficiency. It targets cafeterias, restaurants, and hotels. Sally's proprietary technology dispenses measured quantities of more than 20 ingredients – refreshed daily – to create a ready-to-eat meal any time of day. Thetechnology, with several patents pending, is also applicable to other cuisines, such as Mexican and Indian, and respective robots will follow.Deepak Sekar founded Chowbotics in 2014 in Hayward, California. | $11M | Series A | Jun 13, 2018 |  |
| CRON Systems | CRON Systems was founded in 2015 to cater to the complex security problems at the Indian borders. Our founding team spent the initial months at the field to understand the customer pain-points. We realised that the fragmented sensing solutions’ market was overpopulated with sensors that were nothing near field ready. To take these to the field, onewould have to invest in numerous integrations, time and engineering resources. We decided to build to fill the void that these myopic sensors left in the market. In our effort to provide intelligent sensing that integrates multiple sensors, was weather and terrain agnostic, we developed CRON’s very own Smart Sensor Fusion platform. This platform is designed to flawlessly fuse data from different types of sensors. Simply put, it combines the information from multiple sensors to help perceive the environment and if/when one sensor is compromised by the terrain or the weather conditions, another sensor jumps into action. With little to no false alarms, accurate object/human detection, tracking and classification our advanced suite of products and technology solutions are designed to augment situational awareness i.e. makes you fully aware of the environment around you.What started as a venture to secure our hostile borders has now become a quest to build a more robust sensor platform that will ensure the integration of multiple different sensors with ease, thereby transforming the way sensing works today. | $120K | Seed | Jul 17, 2017 |  |
| Dotterel Technologies | Dotterel is a company based in Auckland, New Zealand that develops noise reduction and audio recording technology for UAVs. They have been providing award-winning solutions for the screen industry, security/defence and noise mapping since 2015.Their company provides technology that passively makes UAVs quieter in noise sensitive applicationsIt also separately allows aerial audio recording directly from the UAV in real-time. This technology opens the use of UAVs in applications and industries where use was previously impossible due to their noise.Being a Techstars company, they develop solutions in partnership with various Universities. Their partners include The University of Auckland, University of NSW, University of Sydney and M.I.T. | $120K | Seed | Jul 17, 2017 |  |
| Chowbotics by DoorDash | The company aims to use robots to solve several problems in the foodservice industry including compromised cleanliness and inefficiency. It targets cafeterias, restaurants, and hotels. Sally's proprietary technology dispenses measured quantities of more than 20 ingredients – refreshed daily – to create a ready-to-eat meal any time of day. Thetechnology, with several patents pending, is also applicable to other cuisines, such as Mexican and Indian, and respective robots will follow.Deepak Sekar founded Chowbotics in 2014 in Hayward, California. | $5M | Series A | Feb 17, 2017 |  |
| OMsignal | Omsignal manufactures bio-sensing clothing that connects to iPhones and iPads in real-time. Embedded sensors in the apparel monitor heart rate, breathing, and activity while the Omsignal app displays data in real-time on a mobile phone. OMsignal fits seamlessly into everyday life. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. | $9.3M | Series B | Sep 19, 2016 |  |
| OMsignal | Omsignal manufactures bio-sensing clothing that connects to iPhones and iPads in real-time. Embedded sensors in the apparel monitor heart rate, breathing, and activity while the Omsignal app displays data in real-time on a mobile phone. OMsignal fits seamlessly into everyday life. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. | $9.3M | Series B | Sep 19, 2016 |  |

10 of 83 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 33 deals together
- [Foundry Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundryvc) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Social Leverage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-leverage) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Zelkova Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zelkova-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Techstars Riyadh Accelerator

VC Fund

Riyadh Techstars Accelerator focuses on startups that build and grow their businesses in the Middle East and North Africa.

1 contacts available at Techstars Riyadh Accelerator.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Cohen | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-cohen |

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## FAQ

### What does David Cohen invest in?

David Cohen invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 83 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 Cohen's check size?

David Cohen typically joins rounds of $20k–$2M at Seed and $1.1M–$8.8M 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 Cohen participates in.

### When did David Cohen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Cohen closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 83 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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