David ibnAle
Founding & Managing Partner @ Advance Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
David ibnAle is a Series B investor at Advance Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and Marketing. David ibnAle is the Founding and Managing Partner of Advance Venture Partners. He has over thirty years of experience as an investor in small and mid-sized growth companies in the technology, tech-enabled services and health care sectors. Prior to co-founding AVP in 2015, Mr. ibnAle was a Managing Director of TPG Growth, the growth equity andmiddle-market investment platform of TPG, where he led the firm’s global technology investing effort. Prior to joining TPG Growth, he was a Partner at Francisco Partners, which he joined at inception in 1999. Mr. ibnAle’s first investing role was as a member of the investment team at Summit Partners, which he joined in 1996 after beginning his career in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley.In addition to board roles at a number of AVP’s portfolio companies, including Midi Health, Boulder Care, Curology, Affinity, Alto Solutions and Morning Consult, Mr. ibnAle is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ultra Clean Holdings (Nasdaq: UCTT). Mr. ibnAle chairs the Board of Trustees of The San Francisco Foundation, is a member of the Board of Trustees of Children’s Day School of San Francisco and is a member of the Board of Directors of the BEA Venture Fund.Mr. ibnAle received an AB in Public Policy and an AM in International Development Policy from Stanford University and received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries David ibnAle invests in
Stages David ibnAle invests in
Countries David ibnAle invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (22%)
- Marketing 2 (22%)
- Health Care 2 (22%)
- Information Technology 2 (22%)
- CRM 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (44%)
- Series C 3 (33%)
- Series D 1 (11%)
- Series E 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 8 (89%)
- Canada 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Boulder Care
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Boulder is a digital health platform expanding access to effective treatment for opiate use. We aim to move the behavioral health industry forward by offering dramatically better experiences for patients and their care teams. | $35M / Series C / May 21, 2024 | |
AutoLeap
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Ryse Energy combines wind energy with solar PV and energy storage to create bespoke and reliable renewable solutions. Users can use it to coordinate operations, schedule jobs, manage technicians, do digital inspections, and invoice clients. | $30M / Series B / Apr 11, 2023 | |
Alto Solutions
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Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, realestate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. | $40M / Series B / Jan 04, 2022 | |
Ginger
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Ginger is a telemental health provider delivering evidence-based behavioral health coaching, therapy, and psychiatry from a smartphone. Ginger's on-demand system brings together behavioral health coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists, who work as a team to deliver personalized care, right through your smartphone. The app provides members withaccess to the support they need within seconds, 24/7, 365 days a year. Millions of people have access to Ginger through leading employers, health plans, and its network of partners. | $50M / Series D / Aug 06, 2020 | |
Affinity
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Affinity is the AI-first private capital CRM that turns relationship intelligence into action across the investment lifecycle. Built on a decade of proprietary relationship and deal data, Affinity automatically captures interactions, maps your firm's network, and surfaces the connections that move deals forward. Ascend, Affinity’s agentplatform, handles the procedural work at every deal stage so teams can focus on the judgment-intensive work that drives returns. Trusted by more than 3,300 private capital firms, Affinity transforms relationship capital into a measurable competitive advantage. Powered by 31B+ interactions and 130B+ relationships, Affinity helps firms uncover opportunities sooner, move with greater conviction, and build an intelligence layer that compounds over time. | $26.5M / Series B / Feb 13, 2019 | |
PebblePost
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PebblePost is a New York-based performance marketing company specializing in programmatic direct mail and CTV. Its Performance Marketing Engine leverages online and offline data to drive measurable, incremental outcomes at scale for the world’s top brands. With the ability to identify and reach nearly every U.S. household, and exclusive access to$100B+ in annual transactions and hundreds of billions of real-time intent signals, PebblePost delivers unparalleled precision, scale, and performance for marketing campaigns. | $31M / Series C / Aug 24, 2018 | |
UrbanSitter
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UrbanSitter uses members' existing networks to match families with babysitters... Babysitters post their credentials and availability. Parents search and book sitters online. Parents like to share their enthusiasm for sitters by writing reviews. The use of Facebook Connect and affiliation groups mimics community and trusted networksbetween families and sitters | $17M / Series C / Oct 05, 2017 | |
HyTrust
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HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption.The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk ofcatastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud.HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures. | $36M / Series E / Jul 11, 2017 | |
Nativo
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Nativo is an advertising technology platform for brand advertisers and publishers to scale, automate, and measure native ads. For brands, Nativo is the ultimate content advertising platform that combines automation and insights with high-quality reach to scale and optimize engagement with brand content. For media companies, Nativo provides acomplete native technology stack that makes it easy to sell, deploy, and optimize native ads across their media properties expanding their revenue potential while delivering a better, non-interruptive experience for their audiences.More than 300 brands and 350 publishers leverage Nativo’s platform to power their next-generation digital advertising. | $20M / Series B / Jun 30, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Advance Venture Partners
Advance Venture Partners (""AVP"") is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that combines the disciplined approach of an institutional equity investor with the strategic insights, access and impact of a strategic investor. AVP invests in early growth stage companies that can benefit from the Firm’s partnershipwith Advance Publications - one of the world’s premier global media franchises and the owner or substantial shareholder of media and technology businesses such as Conde Nast, Charter Communications, Discovery Communications, Reddit and 1010Data. AVP invests $10 million to $30 million in each of its investments, and is a hands-on partner to entrepreneurs in growing businesses and building value. AVP’s investments include Compass, Curology, Farfetch, Gigya, Mediamorph, Nativo, Rent the Runway and Vestiaire Collective.
Advance Venture Partners Contacts
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Alex Christ
General Partner
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David ibnAle
Founding & Managing Partner
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Ameen Dalli
Associate
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Courtney Robinson
Partner
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Gina Sanders
Venture Partner
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What does David ibnAle invest in?
David ibnAle invests primarily in Software, Marketing and Health Care startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 9 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 David ibnAle last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David ibnAle closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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