# David La Placa

> David La Placa is a seed investor at Forbes San Francisco Business Council backing FinTech. See 11 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Forbes San Francisco Business Council
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Aug 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-j-la-placa-4ab26
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Intellect_us
- Website: http://www.intellectuspartners.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJLaPlaca

David La Placa is a seed investor at Forbes San Francisco Business Council in San Francisco focused on FinTech and iOS. David J. La Placa is the Chief Executive Officer | Founder at Intellectus Partners, LLC.

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $550k–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 27% |
| iOS | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 18% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 73% |
| China | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Filecoin | Filecoin is a data storage network and electronic currency based on Bitcoin. | $52M | Initial Coin Offering | Aug 10, 2017 |  |
| China Rapid Finance | China Rapid Finance is an online consumer lending marketplace serving online users and China’s emerging middle class. The Company provides consumer credit access to the world’s largest untapped market, expected to grow to more than RMB 5.4 trillion (US $870 billion) by 2020. Its technology enables socially inclusive financing to the mostcreditworthy individuals, serving a potential 500 million consumers who are economically active but never have had access to bank credit. China Rapid Finance is a recognized technology innovator and has transformed China’s consumer credit landscape with its introduction of the most advanced omni-channel borrower acquisition system and proprietary Big Data analytics technology platform featuring an end-to-end automated credit decisioning system. It has a proven track record in credit risk management, transparency and a culture focused on innovation with more than 5,000 employees and 80 data verification centers across China. China Rapid Finance was founded in 2001 by Mr. Zane Wang, PhD, one of China’s leading experts in consumer credit market innovation and lending marketplace technology. Prior to founding China Rapid Finance, Dr. Wang received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and started his career in the United States, serving as Head of Analytics for Sears Credit – the world’s largest retail credit card portfolio, subsequently acquired by Citibank. Upon returning to China, Dr. Wang advised the People’s Bank of China on the creation of China’s national credit bureau and the first functioning credit bureau in Shanghai before launching China Rapid Finance. Dr. Wang also is the only Council Committee member of the China Association of Microfinance from the marketplace lending industry, and the Secretary of the Shanghai Financial Information Professional Committee, a branch of the Shanghai government trade association. |  | Series C | Jul 29, 2015 |  |
| Intellectus Partners | Intellectus Partners, LLC is a financial service company that specializes in wealth creation, and preservation services. The Company offers investment consulting and management services, as well as manages client investment portfolios on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis. Intellectus has a unique focus on Entrepreneurs and has a focus onVenture & Entrepreneurial Advisory. The firm is a very active investor in disruptive technologies with a particular focus on Fintech-specifically focused on the convergence of Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain, AI at large and New Space.It helps their clients address key issues of creating and preserving self-made wealth, spanning a lifecycle of needs, from formation through impact investing to address the needs of entrepreneurs and executives. |  |  | Jun 30, 2015 |  |
| Jukely | Jukely is a club that grants its members daily guestlist access to hundreds of concerts, parties, and DJ sets every month. It analyzes music taste data across the social graph, and for every show, it magically matches with different friends and even friends of friends who'd be good to go with. It then makes it very easy to ping that group, tostart a conversation around the show.It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $8M | Seed | Apr 28, 2015 |  |
| Orbital Insight | Orbital Insight is a geospatial analytics company, used by data-driven organizations that need to understand the changing physical world. Our SaaS technology unlocks global insights, anywhere and anytime, revealing hidden infrastructure, supply chain, socio-economic and geopolitical trends. That’s because our cloud solutions use AI, computer visionand data science to ingest, analyze and transform billions of geospatial data points (including satellite, cell phone “pings”, AIS, SAR, aerial, connected devices, etc) into actionable intelligence used to make superior business and policy decisions.Orbital Insight was established in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California. |  | Series A | Mar 16, 2015 |  |
| Navdy | The creator of the world’s first device for your car to let you Look Forward© while Staying Connected©, Navdy’s mission is to reinvent the driving experience. At Navdy, we set out to solve a complex problem with a beautifully simple solution. To create the type of product you get and immediately forget how you ever lived without it. We believeyou should be able to do all the things you do everyday simply and easily from the driver’s seat. So we set out to make driving something you Look Forward© to again. Navdy is more than a piece of hardware and more than an app—it’s an experience, and one we hope you enjoy every time you get behind the wheel. To learn more, visit www.navdy.com. | $20.3M | Series A | Jan 16, 2015 |  |
| Navdy | The creator of the world’s first device for your car to let you Look Forward© while Staying Connected©, Navdy’s mission is to reinvent the driving experience. At Navdy, we set out to solve a complex problem with a beautifully simple solution. To create the type of product you get and immediately forget how you ever lived without it. We believeyou should be able to do all the things you do everyday simply and easily from the driver’s seat. So we set out to make driving something you Look Forward© to again. Navdy is more than a piece of hardware and more than an app—it’s an experience, and one we hope you enjoy every time you get behind the wheel. To learn more, visit www.navdy.com. | $6.5M | Seed | Oct 02, 2014 |  |
| HintBox.ai | A confluence of top thinkers in Machine learning, AI, Trading and Wealth Management. We are in the midst of creating the first truly disruptive model in Finance. We solve the one problem in investing that has not yet been addressed. Stay tuned.... |  | Debt Financing | Jun 01, 2014 |  |
| Bretelon | Bretelon is a company developing the leading edge IoT system |  | Seed | May 01, 2014 |  |
| Orbital Insight | Orbital Insight is a geospatial analytics company, used by data-driven organizations that need to understand the changing physical world. Our SaaS technology unlocks global insights, anywhere and anytime, revealing hidden infrastructure, supply chain, socio-economic and geopolitical trends. That’s because our cloud solutions use AI, computer visionand data science to ingest, analyze and transform billions of geospatial data points (including satellite, cell phone “pings”, AIS, SAR, aerial, connected devices, etc) into actionable intelligence used to make superior business and policy decisions.Orbital Insight was established in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California. |  | Seed | Feb 21, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightbank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Promus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/promus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Upfront Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upfront-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [14W](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/14-w) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlueYard Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blueyard-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Forbes San Francisco Business Council

VC Fund



2 contacts available at Forbes San Francisco Business Council.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David La Placa | Official Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-laplaca |
| Sam Hickmann | Council Member and Contributor | — |

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## FAQ

### What does David La Placa invest in?

David La Placa invests primarily in FinTech, iOS and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 La Placa invest in?

David La Placa typically joins rounds of $550k–$8M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not David La Placa's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds David La Placa took part in.

### How do I contact David La Placa?

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### When did David La Placa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David La Placa closed in Aug 2017. Shizune tracks 11 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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