# David Rodriguez

> David Rodriguez is a seed investor at Draft Ventures backing Blockchain and Financial Services. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Draft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draft-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjrodriguez
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/davidjrodriguez
- Website: http://davidjrodriguez.tumblr.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidjosephrodriguez

David Rodriguez is a seed investor at Draft Ventures in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Financial Services. David is a Managing Partner at Draft Ventures, a seed stage investment fund focused on early stage companies. Draft Ventures has invested in over 75 companies, of which 8 have become unicorns - Notion, FabFitFun, Side Inc, Protocol Labs, Thrive Market, Dfinity, Wintermute, and Cosmos - all of which we invested in at the seed stage. David wasformerly COO at Side Inc., a real estate technology company, and COO of Livefyre, as marketing software company. After selling Livefyre to Adobe, David led the integration of Livefyre and focused on Adobe’s AI and emerging technologies strategy. David was previously on the venture investment team at Greycroft Partners. David’s background is in engineering, and he has designed and programmed microprocessors at Medtronic and IBM. David is also passionate about social initiatives focused on economic development and has lived in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Mozambique working for Engineering World Health and TechnoServe. David graduated magna cum laude and with distinction from Duke University with a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 2 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 100% |
| Banking | 1 | 50% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Finance | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jia | Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Solid World | The carbon markets are predicted to be 50x in size up to $50B by 2030. The majority of this market is going to be created through forward investments. One of the big things holding back the forward market today is carbon projects underperforming and the illiquid nature of the carbon investment market. Investing in a project gives you a forwardcontract for future credits. These forward contracts often underdeliver, and you can't do anything with this illiquid future promise for credits in 5+ years.
Solid World DAO accelerates carbon project development through fair, transparent and liquid markets. We de-risk carbon investments and make them liquid. The added safety of investing in carbon space will result in accelerated capital deployment and expansion cycles for carbon projects. They´ve partnered with the top companies in this space like SCB, Vlinder, Emsurge, Arbol, SustGlobal, Toucan, Flowcarbon, OFP.

Since they started in October 2021, they designed special-purpose blockchain infrastructure, have $4M forwards committed for the liquidity pools, and have built a one-of-a-kind world-class team with deep industry knowledge(ACT Commodities, BeZero, eAgronom) and blockchain knowledge(Toucan, Mercado Bitcoin, KlimaDAO) with serial-entrepreneur founders(Glia, eAgronom) who have been featured in Time, sourced tens of millions of forward credits, and are in late-stage talks with multiple trading houses for them to become LP-s on their automated market maker. Their protocol will serve as a financial primitive to build derivatives, collateralised loans, on-chain insurance and other innovations. They have a first-mover advantage in building forward carbon credit infrastructure. | $2.7M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Awesome People Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/awesome-people-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flori Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flori-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Taavet+Sten](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taavet-sten) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Allegory Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegory-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Basecamp Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basecamp-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlockTower Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blocktower-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Draft Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Draft Ventures is a technology-based investment fund that specializes in early-stage investments primarily in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. It also provides operational advice and support to its portfolio companies.Draft Ventures was founded by David Rodriguez and Artia Moghbel in 2015. It is headquartered in San Francisco,California.

2 contacts available at Draft Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artia Moghbel | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artia-moghbel |
| David Rodriguez | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-rodriguez-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does David Rodriguez invest in?

David Rodriguez invests primarily in Blockchain, Financial Services and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Estonia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Rodriguez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Rodriguez closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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