# David Mandel

> David Mandel is a seed investor at Emerging Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Emerging Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerging-ventures)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mandel-/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MandelAngel
- Website: https://emerging.vc

David Mandel is a seed investor at Emerging Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Early-stage emerging technology venture capital. Built, operated, and exited 4 successful different businesses in the Insurance and Finance industries over a 28-year period. Now focusing on investing in early-stage emerging tech startups both as a very active angel investor, and through Emerging Ventures, in my role as Managing Partner.Happy touse my accumulated experience, connections, and financial resources to help the next generation of bright, energetic founders build their businesses.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Music | 1 | 20% |
| Payments | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qase | Qase is a B2B SaaS platform that reinvents how law firms and legal organizations manage legal referrals. | $785K | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2024 |  |
| Modelwise | Modelwise is a Munich-based industrial tech company that leverages AI to automate safety engineering. Their engineering software streamlines safety analysis, saving engineers valuable time and improving analysis quality. With their innovative technology, Modelwise enables engineers to design better products faster. | $2.2M | Seed | Apr 17, 2023 |  |
| Binarly | Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious codeimplantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world. | $3.6M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Binarly | Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious codeimplantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world. | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Trubify | Trubify is a livestreaming music platform that allows artists to monetize their live and recorded performances. The application is available on iOS, Android, and web. Trubify connects artists and music superfans so everyone can experience the music together. Trubify provides discrete modular revenue features with higher payouts to artists than anyother platform, and enables musicians, producers, and content creators to earn a living doing what they love – MAKING MUSIC! | $4M | Seed | Feb 27, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acrobator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrobator-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [StoneMill Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stonemill-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [WestWave Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westwave-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-caca) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cooley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooley-llp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cove Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cove-fund-ii-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Emerging Ventures

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Souther CA based venture capital fund investing in early-stage emerging tech startups.

1 contacts available at Emerging Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does David Mandel invest in?

David Mandel invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Music startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Mandel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Mandel closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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