David Matthews
Managing Partner @ Trailblazer Capital
Dallas, United States
David Matthews is a seed investor at Trailblazer Capital in Dallas focused on Software and Analytics. David Matthews has a background as an entrepreneur, a lead investor in emerging alternative investment funds, a venture capitalist, and as a venture philanthropist.As an entrepreneur, David launched several successful start-ups including Intelecon, Green Mountain Dallas, and The Exchange. Intelecon was a Dallas-based audio-visual servicescompany that he and two co-founders grew from $0 to $22 million of annual revenue between 1991 and 1998. In addition to his oversight of the finance and administration of the business, he grew the company's system integration and outsourcing business from $0 to over $12 million of annual revenue. He achieved this growth by cultivating relationships with customers including Sterling Software, Dell, AMD, First USA, and Nortel. Beginning in 1994, the company was recognized in the "Dallas 100 Awards" for five straight years; it was also recognized in the "Inc 500" in 1996. David's exit from the business was achieved through a partial recapitalization of the company and the spin-off of its system integration and outsourcing business.Green Mountain Dallas was an affinity marketing business that was built for the benefit of Green Mountain Energy and its shareholders. David developed a marketing strategy that targeted high-credit, high-usage, and low-churn homeowners in North Texas. After reducing the customer acquisition cost from $1,000 to under $300 and growing the acquisition rate from 10 to over 600 homes monthly between 2004 and 2005, he successfully integrated the business into the parent company.As a lead investor in alternative investment funds, Matthews brought the initial capital together to back emerging managers in such funds as Red River Ventures (a private equity fund), INCAP Financial Group (a real estate development fund), Green Bull Fund (a clean energy fund), Elm Creek Partners (a private equity fund), and Trailblazer Capital (an early-stage venture fund in which Matthews is also a Managing Partner).As a venture capitalist, David has invested in a number of early-stage entrepreneurial ventures including PeopleAnswers, Urban Labs, Coquest Structured Products, Green Mountain Dallas, K12, Avvantica, Zaadz, SensorLogic, Jumpstart Innovations, SE2 Labs, Noofangle Media, and The Exchange.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries David Matthews invests in
Stages David Matthews invests in
Countries David Matthews invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (67%)
- Analytics 2 (67%)
- SaaS 1 (33%)
- Sales 1 (33%)
- Retail 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
- Funding Round 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Arcade
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Arcade is a solution for sales teams that gamifies employee goals to measurably lift performance and retention (with proven results!). The software provides an all-in-one solution for rewards, recognition, contests, communication, and staff training. Arcade is dynamic and works with customers across many industries in teams small and large acrossthe globe. It also enhances employee productivity through streamlined communication, employee recognition, and gamified incentives. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 31, 2018 | |
FINDMINE
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FindMine is the world's leading company helping iconic brands scale their editorial point of view. FindMine's Content Engine saves retailers and brands 90% of their time while dynamically generating exponentially more high-quality, "on-brand" content. FindMine enhances sell-through, and boosts gross margins and customer lifetimevalue (by over 150%!) for customers such as Rent the Runway, Revolve, Land's End, Vineyard Vines, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, and many more. FindMine's solutions power best-in-class customer experiences across ecommerce, email, chat, marketing channels, and stores. FindMine is a Gartner Cool Vendor, and LVMH Maison des Startups member, winner of VIP Award's Best SaaS/Cloud provider and is an Inc. Magazine Top 200 Most Dynamic Women Entrepreneurs company. | $1.7M / Jan 04, 2017 | |
Oculus360
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Oculus360 provides data mining and analytics solutions that transform web-scale data resources into predictive real-time intelligence. The company delivers consumer perception insights to identify emerging and latent demand using deep learning and behavioral economics. | $3.7M / Series A / Jan 22, 2016 |
Co-Investors
About Trailblazer Capital
Trailblazer Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/start-ups, early stage and growth capital. Areas of interest include: all aspects of networking and telecommunications, wireless and mobility focused on services, applications, software and hardware, data base management, storage, and manipulation, andenterprise software focused on security, social networking, cloud computing, ecommerce and digital media. The firm does not invest in life science, biotechnology, medical device, real estate, and natural resource sectors. The firm typically invests in companies based in Texas and Oklahoma. It invests between $0.1 million and $5 million in a company. Trailblazer Capital was founded in 2006 and is based in Dallas, Texas.
Trailblazer Capital Contacts
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David Matthews
Managing Partner
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John Curreri
COO/CFO
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What does David Matthews invest in?
David Matthews invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 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 Matthews last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Matthews closed in Aug 2018. Shizune tracks 3 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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