David Gould
General Partner @ TechOperators Venture Capital
Nashville, United States
David Gould is a Series A investor at TechOperators Venture Capital in Nashville focused on SaaS and Analytics. Dave Gould is a Director at Matcha and a Partner at TechOperators. Dave holds a bachelor’s in economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Emory University.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
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Industries David Gould invests in
Stages David Gould invests in
Countries David Gould invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 5 (36%)
- Analytics 4 (29%)
- Big Data 3 (21%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (29%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Series C 2 (14%)
- Funding Round 2 (14%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Trajektory is a data insights and valuation technology with advanced demographics and proprietary valuation methodology. It provides stress-free data management that visualizes, assesses, and values the partnership data in real time. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $8M / May 22, 2026 | ||
| SafeGuard Privacy develops a bundled solution to revolutionize corporate privacy compliance management errors. Founded in 2018 by technology and privacy experts, SafeGuard Privacy offers the first platform for comprehensive privacy compliance management and collaboration. A key feature of the platform is its comprehensive and independentassessments that evaluate a company’s privacy programs and guide them on their path to compliance. Its workflow management and governance tools, including policy wizards, training, secure document storage, real-time reporting, and true auditing features, empower businesses with everything they need to mitigate risk and demonstrate compliance—all while saving time and money. In addition, The Vendor Compliance Hub simplifies the industry's RFI process, making it easy for vendors to demonstrate privacy compliance to their partners and mitigate third-party liability. For more information, visit www.safeguardprivacy.com. | $3.6M / Seed / Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Springbot is a pioneering technology company dedicated to empowering B2C and B2B organizations through innovative AI-driven solutions that directly result in sustainable growth. Springbot’s comprehensive ecosystem now includes three powerful platforms designed to drive meaningful business growth:Springbot Send: An advanced AI-enhanced emailmarketing service that revolutionizes customer communication and engagement Springbot Studio: A digital transformation and branding service offering holistic digital marketing communication solutions for forward-thinking clients Springbot Labs: An intelligent workflow automation platform engineered to consistently accelerate revenue generation | $15M / Series C / Oct 16, 2018 | ||
| Matcha’s mission is to give every brand the power of storytelling. We believe in stories, and we believe that when storytelling is both artful and scientific, businesses deliver more meaningful customer experiences and achieve sustainable growth. | $6.5M / Series A / Apr 03, 2018 | ||
| SpotRight is a developer of an audience insight and targeting platform to provide direct and brand marketers with social data and influence. The company's SaaS application, artificial intelligence engine, and patented technology used over 60B consumer-level data points with 150M refreshes daily to analyze, design, and build audiences. Theirapplication then can load the audiences into 300+ media-buyer platforms for audience targeting.With SpotRight agencies and national advertisers design, build, and activate custom people-based audiences from a single application, which eliminates massive waste between planning and activation. Their AI, patented technology, and proprietary data identify the targets that are 10 times more likely to buy, resulting in exceptional performance and ROI. | $6.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 27, 2017 | ||
| Siftit was founded by a group of executives from Radiant Systems with a passion for the restaurant industry. With over 60 years of combined industry experience both selling to restaurants and owning restaurants, we set out to use our technology background to improve the manual, time consuming and error prone process of the independent restaurantsupply chain. Siftit was created to simply connect restaurants and suppliers to build mutually profitable | $2M / Series A / Dec 19, 2016 | ||
| Springbot is a pioneering technology company dedicated to empowering B2C and B2B organizations through innovative AI-driven solutions that directly result in sustainable growth. Springbot’s comprehensive ecosystem now includes three powerful platforms designed to drive meaningful business growth:Springbot Send: An advanced AI-enhanced emailmarketing service that revolutionizes customer communication and engagement Springbot Studio: A digital transformation and branding service offering holistic digital marketing communication solutions for forward-thinking clients Springbot Labs: An intelligent workflow automation platform engineered to consistently accelerate revenue generation | $10M / Series B / Dec 15, 2016 | ||
| Springbot is a pioneering technology company dedicated to empowering B2C and B2B organizations through innovative AI-driven solutions that directly result in sustainable growth. Springbot’s comprehensive ecosystem now includes three powerful platforms designed to drive meaningful business growth:Springbot Send: An advanced AI-enhanced emailmarketing service that revolutionizes customer communication and engagement Springbot Studio: A digital transformation and branding service offering holistic digital marketing communication solutions for forward-thinking clients Springbot Labs: An intelligent workflow automation platform engineered to consistently accelerate revenue generation | $6M / Series A / Jun 05, 2015 | ||
| Siftit was founded by a group of executives from Radiant Systems with a passion for the restaurant industry. With over 60 years of combined industry experience both selling to restaurants and owning restaurants, we set out to use our technology background to improve the manual, time consuming and error prone process of the independent restaurantsupply chain. Siftit was created to simply connect restaurants and suppliers to build mutually profitable | $4M / Series A / Jun 04, 2014 | ||
| Springbot is a pioneering technology company dedicated to empowering B2C and B2B organizations through innovative AI-driven solutions that directly result in sustainable growth. Springbot’s comprehensive ecosystem now includes three powerful platforms designed to drive meaningful business growth:Springbot Send: An advanced AI-enhanced emailmarketing service that revolutionizes customer communication and engagement Springbot Studio: A digital transformation and branding service offering holistic digital marketing communication solutions for forward-thinking clients Springbot Labs: An intelligent workflow automation platform engineered to consistently accelerate revenue generation | $4M / Series A / Jul 24, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
TechOperators is a venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity companies at the pre-seed and seed stages, and occasionally at Series A. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm backs technical founders before the market agrees there's a market, usually leads the rounds it joins, and reserves capital for follow-on rounds. Its partners built, sold and bought security companies before they invested in them. Tom Noonan co-founded Internet Security Systems, the company that created X-Force, took it public in 1998 and sold it to IBM in 2006; he is now lead independent director of Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange. Daniel Ingevaldson was an X-Force researcher, then co-founded Endgame and sold it to Elastic in 2019. Kevin Skapinetz was on the founding team of IBM Security, ran its $1.5 billion security software portfolio and shaped its acquisitions from Q1 Labs through HashiCorp. Managing partner Said Mohammadioun built and sold two software companies and has served on sixteen boards. TechOperators is investing from its fourth fund. Portfolio companies acquired include Phantom (Splunk), Endgame (Elastic), Ionic Security (Twilio), Scytale (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), BrightPoint (ServiceNow), Immunet (Sourcefire), Flashpoint (Audax), Phylum (Veracode), Evo Security (Barracuda), Polarity (ThreatConnect) and Tala Security (Intuit). Co-investors include Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, CRV, Bain Capital Ventures and Google Ventures. The firm publishes the Cyber × AI Map, a categorized map of AI-native security companies, and a library of Agent Skills for cybersecurity founders, at techoperators.com. Founders can reach the partners on LinkedIn.
TechOperators Venture Capital Contacts
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Thomas Noonan
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David Gould
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Glenn McGonnigle
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What does David Gould invest in?
David Gould invests primarily in SaaS, Analytics and Big Data startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for David Gould closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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