# Dave Garland > Dave Garland is a seed investor at Foundation for Innovation in Real Estate backing Real Estate. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Foundation for Innovation in Real Estate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-for-innovation-in-real-estate) - Location: Menlo Park, United States - Total investments: 61 - Last investment: Feb 2026 - Lead investor: 41% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-garland-13017/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.garland.716 Dave Garland is a seed investor at Foundation for Innovation in Real Estate in Menlo Park focused on Real Estate and Software. Dave Garland is the Managing Partner of Second Century Ventures. He previously worked at Suited Connector as a Board Member. Dave Garland attended Melbourne Business School. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Real Estate | 24 | 39% | | Software | 19 | 31% | | SaaS | 8 | 13% | | FinTech | 8 | 13% | | Property Management | 8 | 13% | 99 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 23 | 38% | | Venture - Series Unknown | 19 | 31% | | Series A | 6 | 10% | | Pre-Seed | 4 | 7% | | Funding Round | 3 | 5% | 7 stages tracked in total. ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 44 | 72% | | Canada | 2 | 3% | | Mexico | 2 | 3% | | Spain | 1 | 2% | | Estonia | 1 | 2% | 9 countries tracked in total. ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Takeem | Takeem is a proptech platform that helps landlords, property managers, and real estate companies reduce rental risk and streamline property operations. The platform offers rental income protection, digital rent collection, emergency maintenance support, and automated payment solutions designed to make renting more secure and efficient for bothlandlords and tenants. | | Seed | Feb 18, 2026 | | | GXE | At GXE, our mission is to build the all-in-one platform for unlisted assets and funds management. We provide investors, fund managers, and family offices with the tools they need to succeed and enable them to focus on their portfolios and investors whilst GXE takes care of everything else. A licensed financial services company, GXE holdsAustralian Financial Services Licence 460870 issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. GXE welcomes clients across sectors including corporate, family offices, pension and superannuation fund managers, private equity, property, and venture capital. | $3.3M | Series A | Oct 14, 2025 | | | PredictAP | PredictAP leverages the power of machine learning to automate the accounts payable and payment processing needs of large real estate investment funds and property managers at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. The company was founded in June 2020 by David Stifter and Russell Franks and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | | Non-equity Assistance | Jul 24, 2025 | | | Packsmith | Packsmith is an e-commerce logistics platform that offers e-commerce brands real-time inventory and order tracking services. | | Non-equity Assistance | Jun 12, 2025 | | | Cuid | Cuid is an IT company that offers hardware, software, monitoring apps, and AI-powered security systems for homes and businesses. | | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 | | | Koggi | koggi is a platform with artificial intelligence for mortgage credit applications. | $3.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 12, 2024 | | | Prophia | Prophia is a data and document intelligence platform designed for the commercial real estate industry. The company's mission is to be the trusted data partner for commercial property data. Our vision is to leverage AI to provide the commercial real estate ecosystem with a unified data intelligence platform, powered by documents, that providesdata transparency, reduces transactional friction, and lower transactional costs associated with buying, selling, financing and leasing commercial properties. | | Seed | Jul 29, 2024 | | | Mica | By solving the biggest pain points for tenants, Mica is on the road to **building the biggest proptech and tenants’ community in the residential rental space in Mexico.**It allows tenants to:- Rent the apartment they desire (rent guarantee) - Have their bill payments automated - Have financial flexibility, reduced move-in costs, and access toan emergency credit (BNPL) - Improve their credit score month by month | | Seed | May 15, 2024 | | | Alterhome | Alterhome is a tech and data-powered real estate company that provides rental management services. It designs and operates locally inspired short term rental properties that offer a hotel experience. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. | | Venture - Series Unknown | May 14, 2024 | | | SquareBySquare | SquareBySquare is a conservation platform that enables individuals and organizations to protect ancient rainforest by purchasing and naming 1 to 100 square meter plots. Each purchased square is mapped, personalized, and linked to real-time impact dashboards. The company partners with local conservation organizations to secure endangered ecosystems,starting with the 180-million-year-old Queensland Wet Tropics rainforest in Australia. Users receive monthly letters from the forest with wildlife sightings and impact metrics. The platform has expanded to 35+ countries with plans to launch projects in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Florida, Portugal, and Northern NSW by 2026. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 20, 2024 | | 10 of 61 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [REACH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reach) — VC Fund, 43 deals together - [Morpheus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morpheus-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Bielsky Family Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bielsky-family-office) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Company Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Foundry Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundry-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together ## About Foundation for Innovation in Real Estate VC Fund 1 contacts available at Foundation for Innovation in Real Estate. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Dave Garland | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-garland-2 | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Dave Garland invest in? Dave Garland invests primarily in Real Estate, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 61 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 Dave Garland last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Dave Garland closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 61 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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