# David Samuel

> David Samuel is a seed investor at Toi Labs backing Software and Information Technology. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Toi Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toi-labs)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thedjdave
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dsamuel
- Website: https://about.me/dsamuel
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedjdave

David Samuel is a seed investor at Toi Labs in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. David Samuel is the Founding General Partner of Freestyle Capital. He previously worked at Brondell Inc. as a Founder Chairman. David Samuel attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 14% |
| Internet | 5 | 12% |
| SaaS | 4 | 9% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 63% |
| Series A | 6 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 72% |
| Canada | 3 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stackpack | Stackpack is AI platform help companies to manage the accelerating costs, risks, and complexity of third-party vendors. | $6.3M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Mercator AI | Our mission is to give business developers more time to do what they do best, and support them with the insights they need to have informed and productive conversations. We mine and analyze millions of construction data points across the project lifecycle so that our customers can confidently find and qualify projects and partners faster.Mercator is used by Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Manufacturing companies to inform strategic and tactical decision making.Mercator AI is a privately held company that has recently closed a pre-seed round. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| Bach | Bach solves the myriad pain points behind coordinating group travel, allowing groups to discover, decide, and plan in one place, complete with a marketplace for bookable experiences and critical features including group chat, expense splitting, polling, and itinerary creation. | $9M | Series A | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Glow | Glow is an insurance company that aims to transform insurance to better protect people. The company is working toward holistic coverage for work, life and everything in between. Glow was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California. | $24M | Series A | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| Spot | Spot is the virtual hub for the organization– bringing the spirit and utility of being in the same physical office to a digital experience. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 02, 2022 |  |
| Scenery | Scenery is a collaborative video editor on the web for teams creating videos together. The company was founded in 2020 by the team behind Jumpcut and SnappyTV. | $14.6M | Series A | Jun 17, 2022 |  |
| Bach | Bach solves the myriad pain points behind coordinating group travel, allowing groups to discover, decide, and plan in one place, complete with a marketplace for bookable experiences and critical features including group chat, expense splitting, polling, and itinerary creation. | $8M | Seed | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| Chipper | Chipper is a student loan app that lower payments, qualify for forgiveness, and chip away debt faster. Chipper's mission is to build modern financial products for a generation that is drowning in student debt. Founded in 2018, Chipper is based in Austin, Texas, United States. | $5.6M | Seed | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Myplace | MyPlace is a social networking site that lets users display their private spaces to their network. The platform is currently running a quick-paced private beta for its international user base. Their platform features the ability to let users list their properties and share them with people they trust, enabling users to host and stay with friends. | $5.8M | Seed | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Scarf | Scarf is an AI Platform for Open Source usage analytics and enterprise technographics. Scarf provides intelligence for sales, marketing, security, and more based on how companies and governments around the world are using open source software. |  | Seed | Dec 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Propel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/propel-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blue Fog Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-fog-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Concrete Rose Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concrete-rose-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Corazon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corazon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Toi Labs

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

AI, Digital Health, Telehealth

3 contacts available at Toi Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alejandro Vallejo | Principal Mechanical Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alejandro-vallejo |
| David Samuel | Co-Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-samuel |
| Vik Kashyap | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vikram-kashyap |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does David Samuel invest in?

David Samuel invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 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 Samuel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Samuel closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 43 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co