# David Evans

> David Evans is a funding round investor backing Genetics and Biopharma. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidchinevans
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Psychster

David Evans is a funding round investor in Seattle focused on Genetics and Biopharma. David holds a Ph.D. in social psychology and is a Senior Manager of Customer Research at Microsoft. There he influences the design and positioning of Office 365, Cortana, and the Office Graph. David is the author of a new guide to behavioral design entitled Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology based on the graduate classes heteaches at the University of Washington. Bottlenecks recounts case studies in which the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence determined whether customers were receptive to digital innovations - or not.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Genetics | 1 | 100% |
| Biopharma | 1 | 100% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 100% |
| Health Diagnostics | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Horizon Discovery | Horizon Discovery Group PLC is a UK life science company that uses gene editing and gene modulation platforms to produce cells, applying them in research and clinical applications that advance human health. The Company’s gene editing and gene modulation platform, are able to alter almost any DNA sequence or RNA transcription, has generated acatalogue of over 1,000,000 cell and reagent products that help researchers recapitulate the genetic and protein anomalies found in diseases like cancer. These models have been adopted by c12, 000 organizations to better understand of the predictors and drivers of disease and drug response, and by Horizon in a range of services offered to customers, as well as in the Company’s own research R&D pipeline. | $9.8M |  | Sep 28, 2010 | http://www.horizondiscovery.com |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Roche Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roche-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Threshold](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/threshold) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does David Evans invest in?

David Evans invests primarily in Genetics, Biopharma and Biotechnology startups, most often at Funding Round stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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