David Langer
Founding Partner @ Lionheart Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
David Langer is a seed investor at Lionheart Ventures in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Health Care and FinTech. David Langer is the Founding Partner at Lionheart Ventures, a global, seed-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that make humanity more resilient. Our focus areas are climate protection, mental health and financial inclusion.Previously, David was an angel investor in 20+ companies and founder & CEO of Zesty, a healthy corporatecatering company whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. Zesty served 7+ million meals and raised $20MM+ from investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund and Y Combinator before being acquired by Square in 2018.David’s entrepreneurial career began in 2005 as co-founder & CEO of GroupSpaces, a London-based SaaS company targeting membership groups backed by investors including Index Ventures, Lowercase Capital and Avonmore Developments. In 2010, David was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts for Services to Entrepreneurship.Personally, David is passionate about developing a strong mind and body. He is a certified hatha and yin yoga teacher, experienced meditator and regular attendee of Burning Man, and other transformational events. He is also a hobbyist powerlifter, and previously competed at CrossFit, triathlon and was a national table tennis champion as a child. He has appeared on TV game shows in England including ITV's The Krypton Factor, Channel 4's Countdown and Channel 5's Brainteaser.David studied Mathematics at St Anne's College, Oxford where he was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition by Real World Magazine.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
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Industries David Langer invests in
Stages David Langer invests in
Countries David Langer invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$9M
- Series A
- $25k–$27M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 4 (24%)
- FinTech 3 (18%)
- Software 3 (18%)
- Wellness 3 (18%)
- Financial Services 3 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (59%)
- Series A 4 (24%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 8 (47%)
- United Kingdom 4 (24%)
- Singapore 3 (18%)
- India 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Dendra's mission is to enable scalable restoration of the natural world using automation and intelligence | $10.1M / Series A / Sep 16, 2020 | ||
| Dendra's vision is to empower humanity to restore the balance of our natural world. Our mission is to create the tools needed to power scalable ecosystem restoration. | $11.9M / Series A / May 01, 2020 | ||
| Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street. | Seed / Jul 09, 2019 | ||
| Shiok Meats is cellular aquaculture and cell-based meat company. With a mission to bring clean and healthy meats and seafood by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats that are animal-, health- and environment-friendly.Shiok Meats was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Central Region,Singapore. | $4.6M / Seed / Apr 28, 2019 | ||
| ZeroDown is a real estate startup that focuses on providing an affordable homeownership solution. It is an alternative to the rent-or-own dilemma, offering the benefits of homeownership with the flexibility of renting.It was founded in 2018 by Abhijeet Dwivedi (Previously COO and CSO at Zenefits, McKinsey), Hari Viswanathan (Previously StaffEngineer at Zenefits) and Laks Srini (Previously Co-founder and CTO at Zenefits, SigFig and D. E. Shaw & Co). The three founders worked together at Zenefits -- which processes $2B+ a year in payroll for SMBs, provides access to healthcare and insurance for 100,000+ employees and serves more than 10,000 SMBs. | $6M / Seed / Mar 25, 2019 | ||
| Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice. | $25K / Series A / Mar 18, 2019 | ||
| Wright Electric, Inc. is building technologies for large commercial airplanes. The company is currently developing their flagship Airplane, the Wright 1, which will be a 186-seat single aisle airliner with an 800 mile range. The company hopes to achieve entry to service for the Wright 1 by 2030 and is working with commercial airlines includingeasyJet and VivaAerobus. In addition to the newly announced U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E funding, the company is funded by Y Combinator, the Clean Energy Trust and venture funds. | Seed / Jan 25, 2019 | ||
| Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street. | $6.4M / Seed / Oct 23, 2018 | ||
| Groww is an investment platform that offers a new way of investing money with stockbroking and direct mutual funds.The platform provides insights about mutual funds, systematic investment planning, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world, which helps new investors make investing simple by maintaining a simplifieduser interface to make investing easy, accessible, transparent, and paperless, enabling users to invest in mutual funds without any hassles. Customers can also invest in gold and US stocks through the Groww platform. The company is also a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch.Founded in 2017 by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal, the company was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $1.6M / Seed / Jul 09, 2018 | ||
| Calm offers an application designed to help its users meditate and relax.The company is driven by a mission to make the world happier and healthier by developing a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, depression,insomnia, and stress. Calm was named by Apple as the 2017 iPhone App of the Year and by Google Play as an Editors’ Choice in 2018.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $27M / Series A / Jun 20, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Lionheart Ventures
Lionheart Ventures is a global, seed-stage venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk. We do this by supporting the wise development of transformative technologies. Our main areas of investment focus are transformative artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies.Leading academics estimate a 1-in-6 chance ofhuman extinction by the year 2100, largely driven by risks from emerging technologies. And now, with the exponential growth of AI, predictions are getting worse. Our startups are part of the solution. We invest in exceptional, ethical founders who are developing transformative technologies that have the potential to impact humanity on a meaningful scale, while generating attractive returns for our LPs.
Lionheart Ventures Contacts
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Shelby Clark
Partner, Mental Health
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Annie Caton-Wong
Executive Assistant
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Brandon Goldman
Partner
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Carlos López Enríquez
VP of Finance
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David Langer
Founding Partner
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FAQ
What does David Langer invest in?
David Langer invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does David Langer invest in?
David Langer typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$9M at Seed and $25k–$27M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not David Langer's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds David Langer took part in.
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When did David Langer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Langer closed in Sep 2020. Shizune tracks 17 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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