# David Shim

> David Shim is a seed investor at Venture Capital (Seattle) backing Brand Marketing and Apps. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-capital-spa)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidshim
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/davidshim
- Website: https://x.com/davidshim

David Shim is a seed investor at Venture Capital in Seattle focused on Brand Marketing and Apps. David Shim is based out of Seattle, Washington, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Read AI. David previously worked at Foursquare as a Chief Executive Officer. David Shim attended the University of Washington.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$4.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brand Marketing | 2 | 40% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Video | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Mexico | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orgspace | Orgspace provides a people management platform for software organizations to meet the needs of operational leaders. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Hola Cash | Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience. | $4.6M | Seed | May 23, 2021 |  |
| SparkPlug | SparkPlug solves the trillion-dollar problem of influence at the point of sale, enabling retailers and the brands they carry to seamlessly incentivize influential retail salespeople with gamified commissions, contests, and goals. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 11, 2021 |  |
| MikMak | MikMak helps brands better understand consumers by connecting digital investments to online retailer insights. It offers a dashboard that aggregates the eCommerce customer journey across any number of digital channels and retailers. Brands get standardized reporting and benchmarks, so users can act on unbiased insights in real-time.It was foundedin 2014 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $10M | Series A | Aug 03, 2020 |  |
| Hola Cash | Hola Cash is the first checkout solution in LatAm that combines and orchestrates all the different payment methods, prevents fraud, and powers one-click checkout with a single integration, making it easier and cheaper for merchants to connect to all the different providers and more accessible for final users to pay through a fast and standardcheckout experience. | $3M | Seed | Feb 26, 2020 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [focal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/focal-4f67) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pioneer Square Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-square-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Trilogy Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trilogy-equity-partnership) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Venture Capital

VC Fund · Las Condes, Chile

Venture Capital is provides legal and financial consulting, investment projects designing, and brokerage services to finance such projects.

1 contacts available at Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Shim | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-shim |

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## FAQ

### What does David Shim invest in?

David Shim invests primarily in Brand Marketing, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is David Shim's check size?

David Shim typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$4.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Shim participates in.

### When did David Shim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Shim closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 5 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.

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