# David Parker

> David Parker is a seed investor at Imperial Innovations backing Dental. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Imperial Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imperial-innovations)
- Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

David Parker is a seed investor at Imperial Innovations in Southampton focused on Dental and Hospital. David joined Imperial Innovations in 2014 as a Venture Partner in the Technology Ventures Team. He has extensive experience in building companies from early stage through to private and public exits, along with a long career in senior management in technology corporates. Notable companies include HP, Agilent Technologies, Marconi, SPI and TRUMPF.He is currently a board member at several technology companies including Perpetuum where he serves as the Chairman, and OPS Innovations. David holds a PhD from Imperial College, is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dental | 1 | 100% |
| Hospital | 1 | 100% |
| Health Care | 1 | 100% |
| Data Center Automation | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Newton AI | Newton is an AI-powered dental workflow platform based in San Francisco that helps practices modernize patient engagement, reduce front desk burden, and drive revenue. Newton combines inbound and outbound voice AI for scheduling, AI-powered analytics for executive reporting, revenue cycle tools, and patient communication into one seamless platform.Newton drives revenue, streamlines operations, and delivers a patient-first experience.Newton was founded by Rohit Chaparala, CEO, and Sam Detjen, CTO. They are joined by Amsal Naseem, Founding Engineer; Cole Shaffer, Founding Operations Lead; Joe Olive, Founding Account Executive; and Rhea Phatak Nawaz, Product Designer. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 22, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Phosphor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phosphor-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ti-platform-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TwentyTwo VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/twentytwo-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Imperial Innovations

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Imperial Innovations is a technology commercialization and venture capital investor that focuses on technology. Imperial Innovations no longer invests in startups and now functions as the technology-transfer office of Imperial College.Imperial Innovations is focused on commercialising leading UK academic research sourced from the 'goldentriangle' formed between Cambridge, Oxford and London. We are a technology commercialisation company that combines the activities of technology transfer, intellectual property protection and licensing, company incubation and investment. Innovations is focused on commercialising the most promising UK academic research across a broad range of technology sectors, and has developed particular expertise in: therapeutics, medtech, engineering and materials and information communication technology.

5 contacts available at Imperial Innovations.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Parker | Venture Partner | — |
| Graham Hewson | Incubator Manager | — |
| Jon Edington | Partner | — |
| Laura Guida | Head Of Patent And Licence Management | — |
| William Rayner | Company Secretary, General Counsel | — |

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## FAQ

### What does David Parker invest in?

David Parker invests primarily in Dental, Hospital and Health Care startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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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