David Roux
Co-Founder & Senior Director @ Silver Lake
Upperville, United States
David Roux is a seed investor at Silver Lake in Upperville focused on Mobile and Software. Dave Roux is a co-founder and Senior Director of Silver Lake, where he previously served as co-CEO. He was formerly Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, Executive Vice President at Oracle Corporation, and Senior Vice President at Lotus Development. Dave Roux began his technology career as co-founder and CEO of Datext. Previously, Dave Rouxwas a board member of Avaya Inc., Business Objects S.A., Gartner, Inc., Intelsat S.A., Symantec, Thomson, UGS Corp., and was the Chairman of the Board of Seagate Technology and Serena Software. David serves on the boards of Boston Scientific, Bristol Seafoods, The National Audubon Society, Jackson Laboratory, Bowdoin College, and The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Dave Roux holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M. Phil. from King’s College, Cambridge University. He is a graduate of Harvard College.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries David Roux invests in
Stages David Roux invests in
Countries David Roux invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 3 (38%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Health Care 2 (25%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- iOS 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Funding Round 2 (25%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 7 (88%)
- Israel 1 (13%)
Investments
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DACLab
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DACLab is a climate technology company specializing in scalable, cost-effective direct air capture (DAC) solutions for carbon dioxide removal. | $3M / Seed / Sep 18, 2025 | |
Kate Farms
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Kate Farms offers nutritionally advanced, plant-based tube feeding, and enteral formulas that are well-tolerated by patients. Free of common allergens, including soy, dairy, and corn, clinicians report patients have experienced decreased symptoms of GI intolerance, improved weight or linear growth, and overall improved nutritional status. KateFarms is now the #1 plant-based enteral formula on the market. They’re gaining a better understanding of the role nutrition has on health, both in the management of care and direct therapeutic impact. Ingredients matter and our formulas are designed to deliver outcomes that matter. They pair leading-edge science and technologies with ingredients from nature in unique formulations that work with the bodies. This combination offers the potential for significant improvements to health and to the practice of healthcare. Today doctors, dietitians, parents, caregivers, and those with medical and dietary needs are empowered with the choice of a new formula. It’s the nourishment that makes them feel good because everyone deserves nothing less. | $23M / Series A / Apr 09, 2020 | |
Airobotics
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Airobotics has developed a pilotless drone solution, the first of its kind in the global market.Airobotics provides an end-to-end, fully automatic solution for collecting aerial data and gaining invaluable insights. The industrial grade platform is available on-site and on-demand, enabling industrial facilities to access premium aerial data ina faster, safer, more efficient way.The team at Airobotics fuses expertise in aerospace hardware design, robust electronic systems, leading software engineering, and years of experience in commercial drone operations. This varied experience has allowed them to design a solution suited to address the needs of the world’s most complex industrial environments.To learn more, visit: www.airobotics.co.il | $32.5M / Series C / Sep 07, 2017 | |
Yobongo
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Yobongo is a mobile communication startup currently in private beta testing. They keys to the service are location, realtime, and identity. Yobongo is a new way for people to communicate with people nearby. We believe connecting with people in the real world is much harder than it should be. That by giving people the opportunity to connect withother like minded people we can help foster authentic communications about everything and anything.Mobile devices are more powerful than ever before, but the way we communicate on them hasn't kept pace. Always connected and location aware devices demand new approaches to make communicating more efficient and fun. Yobongo aims to re-imagine the way we communicate on mobile devices. Yobongo is available on iPhone and iPod Touch.The world is filled with places where people can pretend to be someone they're not. Yobongo isn't one of them. Yobongo is about authentic conversations with real people. That is why we require real photos and real names. Because when you are being yourself you can forge real connections and friendships. | $1.4M / Seed / Mar 23, 2011 | |
WordWalla
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WordWalla is the leader in providing solutions to empower enterprises and end-users to communicate, conduct business and create content in any language. Their services will enable seamless global communication across any platform. They currently serve over 30,000 individual subscribers and Their roster of enterprise customers is growing everyday.WordWalla multilingual services are currently available in over 50 languages.WordWalla makes all online communication, commerce and content creation available in multiple languages, revolutionizing every form of web interaction from e-mail to web-based publishing to e-commerce. WordWalla’s multilingual online text processor (patent filed July 1999) allows users to create and view content online in all major languages (including Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, Thai, Vietnamese, Russian, Greek, and the major European languages). In order to facilitate communications in unfamiliar languages, WordWalla also offers translation services. | $2.2M / Jul 11, 2000 | |
PrefTech
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PrefTech's is a computer software company that specializes in healthcare technology, supply chain technology, and surgical preference card optimization. Its platform provides the decision analytics and workflow governance necessary to correct, maintain, and optimize surgical preference cards. The company was founded in 2015 and headquarteredin Virginia, United States. | $1M / Seed | |
Pluto Media
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Pluto Media is building Koala Band: the first Educational Social World for the next generation of kids on tablets. With education, user-generated content, and real-life friendship connections, Koala Band is quickly becoming the Social Network of kids 5+ where kids play and learn together.Get the free iPad App here:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/koala-band-play-your-friends/id597380332?mt=8At Pluto Media we integrate brilliant technology with world-class creative talent to develop products that foster children's creativity, curiosity, and knowledge of the world around them.We are very excited about the huge opportunity in the kids' social fun learning space created by tablets and smartphones with intuitive interfaces. We are well-funded, incredibly well-advised, and perfectly positioned to capture this space.Pluto Media was founded in YouWeb Incubator, birthplace of wildly successful gaming companies such as OpenFeint (recently acquired for $104M by GREE), CrowdStar, iSwifter and Sibblingz Spaceport. The company was also an inaugural member of co.lab, an accelerator focused on educational gaming companies with very high-growth potential. | $500K / Seed | |
Xoriant
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Xoriant Corporation (www.xoriant.com) is a Product Development/Engineering and Product Consulting Services company, providing full life cycle software development and engineering services to technology companies and product implementation and integration services to the customers of our technology clients from its global delivery centers.Xoriant's technology clients include independent software vendors, systems companies, web companies (including social networking and social media) and mobile applications companies. Using our global delivery centers, Xoriant's Product Development & Engineering services offer our clients a seamless extension to their Research and Development teams and help in reducing the time to market as well as enhancing the overall productivity and cost-effectiveness. | $30M |
Co-Investors
About Silver Lake
Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in leading technology companies.They are partners to world-class management teams that seek to use their capital and expertise to build and extend their market leadership. seeks to formulate its investments to enable growth and frequently employsconservative capital structures designed to drive aggressive investment in new initiatives, innovation, and business expansion.Their core investment thesis is that the technology industries represent an extraordinary yet under-exploited target for large-scale private investments. The firm also seeks to cultivate proprietary or specialized investment opportunities not typically available to generalist investors. It devotes its full scope of talent and intellectual capital to the singular mission of investing in the world’s technology, technology-enabled businesses, and related growth businesses.Silver Lake was established in 1999 by David Roux, Glenn Hutchins, Jim Davidson, and Roger McNamee and is based in Menlo Park, California.
Silver Lake Contacts
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Ajay Shah
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Christian Lucas
Managing Director
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David Roux
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David Zhang
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Karen King
Managing Director
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What does David Roux invest in?
David Roux invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 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 Roux last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Roux closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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