# David Tedman

> David Tedman is a seed investor at Hootsuite (Vancouver) backing Software and SaaS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hootsuite](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hootsuite)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/davidtedman
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/d1337
- Website: http://www.hootsuite.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/

David Tedman is a seed investor at Hootsuite in Vancouver focused on Software and SaaS. David Tedman first honed his digital pioneering inclinations at the Vancouver Film School, earning his degree in Interactive Media in 2002. Soon after, he founded Novare Res, a multi-disciplinary design company that later merged with Invoke and laid the foundations for his serial successes in product development. Tedman's accomplishments, todate, include incubating memelabs, a leading branded contesting and social engagement platform and co-founding HootSuite, an award-winning social media dashboard, which spun off into its own company after Invoke helped build its first one million user base.Tedman happily splits his time between Vancouver and New York, is constantly thinking of new high-performing business models, and is perpetually looking forward to the next basketball game.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $692k–$905k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Sports | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| Finance | 1 | 14% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 5 | 71% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Commit | Commit is the professional network for the world's best Startup Engineers. | $6M | Seed | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| Taloflow | Taloflow (YC W21) is a buying insights platform for the tech stack. We help CTOs at digital-native companies pick the best cloud infrastructure and API products for their specific use case, saving them weeks of soul-sucking analysis and costly mistakes for every big decision they make. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 12, 2021 |  |
| Creator.co | Creator is a SaaS powered marketplace that connects hundreds of brands with millions of Influencers to drive commerce at scale. SMBs to fortune 500's depend on Creator to scale performance focused influencer marketing campaigns. Thousands of Creators join for free every month for an opportunity to collaborate with brands and drive commercefocused campaigns. | $692.5K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Taloflow | Taloflow (YC W21) is a buying insights platform for the tech stack. We help CTOs at digital-native companies pick the best cloud infrastructure and API products for their specific use case, saving them weeks of soul-sucking analysis and costly mistakes for every big decision they make. | $905K | Pre-Seed | May 09, 2018 |  |
| Hack Capital Ventures | Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently. | $750K | Seed | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| KOHO Financial | KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day to day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations, enabling users to manage theirexpenses and banking operations on the go. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2016 |  |
| Rosterbot | The service canalso email users a summary of who's coming on game day. The service is free to users. RosterBot started in 2008 as an experiment and has evolved into a fast-growing community of athletes and other groups all over the world. RosterBot is now brought to you by a small but dedicated team of professionals with a passion for team sports. | $1M | Seed | May 07, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blockchain Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Victory Square](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victory-square-labs-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Conconi Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conconi-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders.ai](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-ai) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hootsuite

VC Fund · Vancouver, Canada

Hootsuite is a platform for managing social media. More than 15 million users, including 800+ of the Fortune 1000 companies, trust Hootsuite to manage their social media programs across multiple social networks from one integrated dashboard. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

5 contacts available at Hootsuite.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akarsha Surendar | Product Marketer (Research and Insights) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akarsha-surendar |
| Ben Cathers | Global Principal Solutions Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-cathers |
| Christoph Neut | Vice President of Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christoph-neut |
| David Tedman | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-tedman |
| Maggie Lower | Chief Marketing Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maggie-lower |

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## FAQ

### What does David Tedman invest in?

David Tedman invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Sports startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

David Tedman typically joins rounds of $750k–$6M at Seed and $692k–$905k at Pre-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 Tedman participates in.

### When did David Tedman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Tedman closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 7 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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