# David Kittay

> David Kittay is a funding round investor at Columbia University backing SaaS and Politics. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Columbia University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/columbia-university)
- Location: New City, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2011
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-kittay-b3a58011

David Kittay is a funding round investor at Columbia University in New City focused on SaaS and Politics. Adjunct Assistant Professor. (BU JD, CU PhD). Dr. Kittay specializes in teaching courses on Buddhism and on Eastern and Western philosophy, most recently, “Technology, Religion, Future” and “Interpreting Buddhist Yoga.” He is the translator of The Vajra Rosary Tantra, Alaṃkakalaśa’s Commentary on the Vajra Rosary Tantra, and, with Professor LozangJamspal, Pha Dampa Sangs rgyas's One Hundred Spiritual Instructions to the Dingri People, the Elucidation of the Intention Tantra, and The Compendium of Dharma Sūtra, which is mainly about emptiness as a conventional phenomenon, along with other books and articles about Buddhism, religion, and law. He is the President of the Tibetan Classics Translators Guild of New York. He also writes and lectures on the subject of compassionate lawyering, and has served as a trial and civil rights lawyer, federal bankruptcy trustee and a receiver for the Securities Exchange Commission. He is currently director the Clemente Course for the Humanities, teaching humanities to underprivileged people in Harlem.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Politics | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Consulting | 1 | 100% |
| Business Development | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Organizer | Organizer's team believes that technology should encourage MORE human interaction, not less. But, face-to-face contact can be expensive. Organizer’s making it easier for organizations to send workers from the office to the field using affordable smartphones.Organizer helps gather information from face-to-face conversations so insightsfrom the public do not get lost and help inform organizations. Organizer uses technology and relevant data from smartphones, which makes receiving real-time data updates possible. With real-time data, organizations can make smart informed decisions. Plus, Organizer helps to make your job simpler and streamlined. Organizer is located in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Washington D.C. The company has a focus on creating an application that makes field outreach simple, streamlined and impactful. |  |  | Sep 11, 2011 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Columbia University

VC Fund · New York, United States

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. Columbia University is an ivy league school. The University recognizes the importance of its location in NewYork City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the University to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

5 contacts available at Columbia University.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrea Califano | Founder of the Department of Systems Biology, Director of the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-califano |
| Barry Honig | Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-honig-3 |
| David Kittay | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-kittay |
| Edmund Phelps | Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, McVickar Professor of Political Economy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edmund-phelps |
| Glenn Hubbard | Dean & Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-hubbard |

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## FAQ

### What does David Kittay invest in?

David Kittay invests primarily in SaaS, Politics and Software startups, most often at Funding Round stage. Most of the 1 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 Kittay last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Kittay closed in Sep 2011. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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