David Martirano
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ PJC
Boston, United States
David Martirano is a Series B investor at PJC in Boston focused on Software and Education. David Martirano is the Managing Partner of PJC. David has extensive experience investing broadly in B2B SaaS, Consumer and Tech Enabled Service companies.In 2001, David partnered with Governor Gina Raimondo, and together they founded Point Judith Capital in Rhode Island. Point Judith Capital subsequently relocated to Boston in 2011 and laterrebranded to PJC. Prior to PJC, David Co-founded Rex Capital Ventures, which was a venture division of a family office that invested in early stage technology companies around the world. Before embarking on his 20-year venture capital experience, he worked on Wall street and was a member of the Investment Banking Group at Cowen & Company. David sits on the Board of Trustees at the University of Rhode Island and the Investment Committee of Lifespan and has been actively involved with Year Up Rhode Island.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
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Industries David Martirano invests in
Stages David Martirano invests in
Countries David Martirano invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (33%)
- Education 3 (17%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (17%)
- SaaS 2 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (33%)
- Series A 5 (28%)
- Seed 4 (22%)
- Series C 2 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
Investments
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| AceUp is the leading global provider of Human-Centered Leadership™ development solutions for individuals and teams.AceUp helps global, innovative, and purpose-driven organizations build high-performing teams at scale. upskilling leaders at all levels to lead transformation in a VUCA world.We combine 1-on-1 and team coaching, AI-poweredmicro-learning, and prescriptive analytics to maximize team alignment, engagement, and performance at scale.Are you unlocking your teams full potential? Learn more about how to fuel the success of your teams at all levels. | $22.5M / Series A / Sep 12, 2024 | ||
| Diligent Pharma is a platform that streamlines the selection and qualification of clinical trial service providers. It simplifies and accelerates the process for identification, selection, and qualification of clinical trial service providers.Trial sponsors can access standardized Vendor Qualification Assessment (VQA) reports and Request forInformation (RFI) information from Diligent. As a result, they will require significantly less time and money to qualify a GCP vendor before beginning a clinical investigation. | $8.3M / Series A / May 15, 2023 | ||
| The Best Proprietary Academic AI Model for Education | Pre-Seed / Nov 20, 2022 | ||
| Dianthus is the only AI-first E-commerce company – built from the ground up to help small to medium E-commerce brands. | $11.5M / Seed / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| For companies looking for high-quality, flexible specialists, Pangea unlocks a network of vetted, fractional talent - primarily marketers, designers, and operators. Pangea has helped more than 6,000 companies connect with top fractional talent. Our tech-powered process enables us to connect you with talent in 24 hours or less. | $2M / Seed / Jul 29, 2021 | ||
| ICX Media is a data-as-a-service company providing breakthrough data, analytics and intelligence to brands, media and entertainment companies and agencies. The ICX platform leverages machine learning and data science to analyze billions of district data points to best predict what type of video content is most likely to engage specific targetaudiences. Leading media companies, particularly CTV and streaming focused companies, use ICX to more effectively create and market content that resonates with their target audiences. Brands and agencies use ICX to better create and target highly engaging content for target consumers. Clients include numerous large media and entertainment companies, brands and agencies around the world. | $6.6M / Series B / Aug 07, 2019 | ||
| ICX Media is a data-as-a-service company providing breakthrough data, analytics and intelligence to brands, media and entertainment companies and agencies. The ICX platform leverages machine learning and data science to analyze billions of district data points to best predict what type of video content is most likely to engage specific targetaudiences. Leading media companies, particularly CTV and streaming focused companies, use ICX to more effectively create and market content that resonates with their target audiences. Brands and agencies use ICX to better create and target highly engaging content for target consumers. Clients include numerous large media and entertainment companies, brands and agencies around the world. | $6.6M / Series A / Oct 12, 2017 | ||
| Only Evergage’s real-time personalization platform delivers The Power of 1, enabling digital marketers to transform the dream of 1:1 customer engagement into reality.Combining in-depth behavioral analytics with customer data, Evergage provides the one platform you need to systematically understand and interact with each person that visits yoursite or uses your app – one at a time, “in the moment” and at scale – to deliver a maximally relevant, individualized experience.Personalization is the future of digital marketing, and we believe it should be easy for marketers – without the need for developers or IT – to understand their audiences and respond in real time with the most engaging experiences and the most relevant recommendations. Our customers delight their visitors, prospects and customers every day, building valuable relationships that lead to greater revenues and customer loyalty.Evergage has delivered personalized experiences to more than 2 billion web visitors and users of over 150 organizations, including Academy Sports+Outdoors, Endurance International Group, Intuit, Publishers Clearing House, Rue La La, Zumiez and more.Founded in 2010 and based in Somerville, MA, Evergage is a two-time winner in the Golden Bridge Awards, Stevie American Business Awards, Best in Biz Awards and MITX Awards; a two-time BostInno “50 on Fire” finalist; and a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. | $10M / Series C / Aug 09, 2017 | ||
| ICX Media is a data-as-a-service company providing breakthrough data, analytics and intelligence to brands, media and entertainment companies and agencies. The ICX platform leverages machine learning and data science to analyze billions of district data points to best predict what type of video content is most likely to engage specific targetaudiences. Leading media companies, particularly CTV and streaming focused companies, use ICX to more effectively create and market content that resonates with their target audiences. Brands and agencies use ICX to better create and target highly engaging content for target consumers. Clients include numerous large media and entertainment companies, brands and agencies around the world. | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 03, 2016 | ||
| Only Evergage’s real-time personalization platform delivers The Power of 1, enabling digital marketers to transform the dream of 1:1 customer engagement into reality.Combining in-depth behavioral analytics with customer data, Evergage provides the one platform you need to systematically understand and interact with each person that visits yoursite or uses your app – one at a time, “in the moment” and at scale – to deliver a maximally relevant, individualized experience.Personalization is the future of digital marketing, and we believe it should be easy for marketers – without the need for developers or IT – to understand their audiences and respond in real time with the most engaging experiences and the most relevant recommendations. Our customers delight their visitors, prospects and customers every day, building valuable relationships that lead to greater revenues and customer loyalty.Evergage has delivered personalized experiences to more than 2 billion web visitors and users of over 150 organizations, including Academy Sports+Outdoors, Endurance International Group, Intuit, Publishers Clearing House, Rue La La, Zumiez and more.Founded in 2010 and based in Somerville, MA, Evergage is a two-time winner in the Golden Bridge Awards, Stevie American Business Awards, Best in Biz Awards and MITX Awards; a two-time BostInno “50 on Fire” finalist; and a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. | $10M / Series B / Jan 12, 2016 | ||
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About PJC
PJC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. The firm has invested in over 100 companies across North America including notable companies like Expensify, Nest, BlockFi, GetWell Network and Nexamp. PJC was founded in 2001 and is based inBoston, Massachusetts.
PJC Contacts
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David Martirano
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Matthew Hayes
General Partner
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Alok Deshpande
Venture Partner
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Arun Saigal
Venture Partner
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Gaurav Bhogale
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What does David Martirano invest in?
David Martirano invests primarily in Software, Education and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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