# David Thevenon

> David Thevenon is a seed investor at SoftBank Vision Fund (London) backing Software and SaaS. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SoftBank Vision Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-vision-fund)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dthevenon
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thevenon
- Website: https://x.com/thevenon

David Thevenon is a seed investor at SoftBank Vision Fund in London focused on Software and SaaS. Before joining SoftBank in 2014, David had a 10-year tenure at Google, where he last led global partnerships for the Android platform and was in charge of product related partnerships and business development activities across Asia, Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Latin America. Prior to Google, David was leading strategic partnerships at T-MobileInternational, and worked as a finance executive at Dell, ICL-Fujitsu and Elf-Atochem. David received a Master in Management from ESCEM.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $30M–$158M |
| Series C | $100M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |
| Ride Sharing | 2 | 13% |
| Developer APIs | 2 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 2 | 13% |
| Series E | 1 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 20% |
| India | 1 | 7% |
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Exploration Company | The Exploration Company develops, manufactures, and operates modular and reusable spaceships called Nyx, designed for space stations near Earth and the Moon. Nyx can be refueled in orbit and utilizes green propellants. The company also provides an open-source operating system for these spaceships. | $158M | Series B | Nov 17, 2024 |  |
| Brigad | Brigad is a staffing and recruiting company that provides staff and workforce on demand for hospitality and retail businesses. Its digital expertise allows a matching technology to staff vetted and available workforce on a record time. Embrace flexibility, save time & money by getting rid off HR and organisational management. | $29.9M | Series B | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Makini | Makini is One API for All industrial enterprise integrations. Industrial tech companies use Makini to support out-of-box customer-facing integrations with >100 enterprise software systems in EAM, CMMS, ERP, and WMS. All at once, via one integration. Makini handles authentication, data unification, and enables web-hooks, workflow automation, andcustomizations required for complex workflows at scale. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Lemonade | Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificialintelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States. | $300M | Series D | Apr 11, 2019 |  |
| Grab | Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines,Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam. | $1.5B | Series H | Mar 06, 2019 |  |
| Ola | Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India. | $79.4M | Series J | Jan 10, 2019 |  |
| Lemonade | Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificialintelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States. | $120M | Series C | Dec 19, 2017 |  |
| Ola | Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India. | $1.1B | Private Equity | Oct 02, 2017 |  |
| Grab | Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines,Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam. | $2B | Series G | Jul 24, 2017 |  |
| Ola | Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India. | $330M | Private Equity | Feb 26, 2017 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Allianz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allianz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RNT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rnt-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SoftBank Vision Fund

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of Softbank Group that specializes in growth capital and social impact investments. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internetbusinesses, financial technology, and mobile apps. The Fund is designed to be a catalyst for technology progress in anticipation that it will expand SoftBank's capabilities, accelerating progress towards SoftBank 2.0.It aims to invest in businesses and foundational platforms that SoftBank believes to revolutionize and innovate the world tomorrow.

5 contacts available at SoftBank Vision Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Thevenon | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-thevenon |
| Javier Villamizar | Partner, Joint Ventures and Portfolio Synergies | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/javier-villamizar |
| Sumer Juneja | Partner and Head of India | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumer-juneja |
| Akshay Naheta | Partner, EMEA | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akshay-naheta |
| Andrew Kovacs | Partner, Marketing and Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-kovacs |

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## FAQ

### What does David Thevenon invest in?

David Thevenon invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 15 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 Thevenon's check size?

David Thevenon typically joins rounds of $30M–$158M at Series B and $100M–$120M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Thevenon participates in.

### When did David Thevenon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Thevenon closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 15 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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