# David Hauser

> David Hauser is a seed investor at direct Co., Ltd. (Las Vegas) backing Software and SaaS. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [direct Co., Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/direct-co-ltd)
- Location: Las Vegas, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhauser
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dh
- Website: https://x.com/dh
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dh.dhauser

David Hauser is a seed investor at direct Co., Ltd. in Las Vegas focused on Software and SaaS. David Hauser is co-founder of Grasshopper. A passionate technologist, he is one of the youngest co-founders to have lead a company to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in U.S. He was also co-founder of Return Path, an e-mail performance management company, and founder of WebAds360, an ad-serving technology provider forsmall and mid-sized businesses. David has been featured on CNN, named one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,” and has been featured in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and many other publications.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $275k–$5.1M |
| Series A | $5M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 29% |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 21% |
| Sales Automation | 3 | 21% |
| Retail | 2 | 14% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 57% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 86% |
| Norway | 2 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bridge | Bridge is an AI platform that streamlines alternative investment management solutions for wealth management firms. | $5.1M | Seed | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Whereby | Whereby isn’t your standard video meetings tool. Created with our Scandinavian simplicity at its heart, we're ahead of the curve. Whereby is the go-to meetings tool for creative businesses and agencies worldwide, for its ease of use, beautiful design, and no download requirement. With unlimited call duration, customizable meeting rooms, andintegrations with collaborative tools like Miro whiteboards, Whereby is changing the video meetings game. | $10.6M | Series A | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| Whereby | Videonor provides video conferencing services for businesses. Videonor delivers cloud-based software-as-a-service video conferencing at a low monthly cost, avoiding the need to buy expensive equipment or make big up-front investments. As a tech agnostic service provider, Videonor can build solutions that integrate with other conferencing productsand endpoints that customers already have in place. Skype, Cisco, Polycom and others can be enhanced with higher quality video and audio service provided by Videonor. With clients in 50+ countries, Videonor currently helps global enterprises, startups, academic institutions and national sports teams communicate more effectively. | $12M | Series A | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| Founderpath | Founderpath helps founders get capital without having to raise equity. Founders connect their bank accounts, customer information, and other data to get a credit score. Based on this credit score, Founderpath lends the company money. Better credit scores get better rates, cheaper capital. Founderpath has a debt fund so it invests directly incompanies. | $10M | Debt Financing | Feb 16, 2021 |  |
| Barn & Willow | Barn & Willow is a vertically integrated home decor brand making custom-made window coverings effortless and accessible. | $1.4M |  | May 10, 2017 |  |
| Suiteness | Suiteness is a luxury travel startup, with an online booking platform that lets users access an inventory of suites, penthouses, and villas from luxury hotels. It also offers rooms that connect to suites for half the price of a typical two-bedroom suite for groups of 4 or more. With access to the most luxurious suites, most of which have neverbeen offered online before, guests experience amenities like private entrances, personal butlers, and even private pools. In addition to luxury travelers, the service is intended for families and large groups looking for accommodations with multiple bedrooms and shared space as the website carries exclusive suites with one to five attached bedrooms.Suiteness focuses on the hotel side as well by providing partners with brand protection, visibility, data transparency, and flexibility. The ultimate goal of the company is to showcase and market their hotel partners' most prized inventory, services, brand, and amenities through a unique and exciting platform. Currently, Suiteness is live in Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Orlando, Los Angeles, and London with access to luxury suites, half of which are being offered exclusively through Suiteness. The company intends to expand rapidly this year. They are headquartered in Oakland, CA.Suiteness was a part of Y Combinator's Summer 2016 class and in 2015, the company received investments from Structure Capital and Keystone Capital.In December 2016, Suiteness raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding, led by Bullpen Capital and Global Founders Capital and including participation from Max Levchin's HVF fund, Kima Ventures and Altair Capital. | $5M | Series A | Dec 14, 2016 |  |
| LeadFuze | LeadFuze was founded by Justin McGill in December of 2014. It was done as an experiment where he attempted to launch a new business in 24 hours. He live-blogged the whole 24 hour journey from idea to launch.LeadFuze was born from a previous venture Justin had. It was when he started his marketing agency (which he originally started in 2008). Heneeded a more automated way to find leads and so he built out the lead finding system that would eventually become the concept LeadFuze was built around. | $275K | Seed | Nov 03, 2016 |  |
| The Hustle | The Hustle is the most trusted source for business news. We use our no nonsense voice to explain the latest in business, startups, tech, and whatever else is happening in this outlandish world of ours. | $320K | Seed | Jul 01, 2015 |  |
| LaunchBit | www.launchbit.com is a customer acquisition platform for SaaS companies. In short, they help SaaS companies get new customers through their tools.Their first product LaunchBit Ads is an adtech tool that integrates with high quality ad networks and publishers to help SaaS companies get in front of relevant B2B audiences across niche emailnewsletters, blogs, and other ad inventory. | $960K | Seed | Aug 06, 2012 |  |
| Intercom | Intercom is a Conversational Relationship Platform (CRP) that helps businesses build better customer relationships through personalized, messenger-based experiences. It’s the only platform that delivers conversational experiences across the customer journey, with solutions for Conversational Marketing, Conversational Customer Engagement andConversational Support.Intercom is bringing a messenger-first experience to all business-to-customer communication, powering 500 million conversations per month and connecting 4 billion unique end users worldwide across its more than 25,000 paying customers, including Atlassian, Sotheby’s and New Relic.The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco by Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee and David Barrett, with the mission to make internet business personal. Intercom was valued at $1.275 billion in 2018 and has secured $241 million in funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital. | $1M | Seed | Jan 25, 2012 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [s16vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s16vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bullpen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullpen-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CSC Upshot](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/csc-upshot) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About direct Co., Ltd.

VC Fund



1 contacts available at direct Co., Ltd..

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Hauser | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-hauser |

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## FAQ

### What does David Hauser invest in?

David Hauser invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### What is David Hauser's check size?

David Hauser typically joins rounds of $275k–$5.1M at Seed and $5M–$12M 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 Hauser participates in.

### When did David Hauser last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Hauser closed in Oct 2025. 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.

### 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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