# David E. Weekly

> David E. Weekly is a seed investor at Capital One (Redwood City) backing Drones and Robotics. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Capital One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-one)
- Location: Redwood City, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dweekly
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- Website: https://david.weekly.org/
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David E. Weekly is a seed investor at Capital One in Redwood City focused on Drones and Robotics. David E. Weekly is the Head of The Capital One Lab of Capital One. He previously worked at Medcorder as a Founder and CEO. David E. Weekly attended Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $33k–$1.1M |
| Angel | $1M–$1M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$120k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Drones | 6 | 50% |
| Robotics | 6 | 50% |
| Aerospace | 3 | 25% |
| Health Care | 3 | 25% |
| Forestry | 2 | 17% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Angel | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 83% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sugarlogix | Sugarlogix is creating prebiotic sugars with functional benefits for your gut health. Found naturally in human breast milk, their functional sugars restore balance to the gut microbiome, thus enhancing the immune system and reducing inflammation. |  | Seed | May 03, 2017 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | DroneSeed is making reforestation scalable--to make a dent in carbon emissions. It is paid per acre to plant tree seed vessels with DroneSwarms. It is one of the most advanced drone companies in the US as it has obtained three precedent setting FAA approvals. It is the 1st and only company allowed to operate heavy-lift drone swarms each carrying a57lb payload. It is also the first to be able to operate heavy lift swarms BVLOS (Beyond visual line of sight). Its customers include timber companies, non-profits such as The Nature Conservancy, and government agencies. It was founded by Grant Canary in 2015 and went through Techstars Seattle in 2016. | $1M | Seed | Jul 15, 2016 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | DroneSeed is making reforestation scalable--to make a dent in carbon emissions. It is paid per acre to plant tree seed vessels with DroneSwarms. It is one of the most advanced drone companies in the US as it has obtained three precedent setting FAA approvals. It is the 1st and only company allowed to operate heavy-lift drone swarms each carrying a57lb payload. It is also the first to be able to operate heavy lift swarms BVLOS (Beyond visual line of sight). Its customers include timber companies, non-profits such as The Nature Conservancy, and government agencies. It was founded by Grant Canary in 2015 and went through Techstars Seattle in 2016. | $1M | Angel | Jul 15, 2016 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | Mast Reforestation built the only vertically integrated solution to reforest the growing pool of millions of acres that have been damaged by wildfire. The company removes the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done, which led to a large and growing project pipeline. It recentlyacquired two legacy businesses to become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the West, which is the primary bottleneck to reforestation. Mast is now executing on the project backlog by leveraging project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits for corporate buyers. | $1M | Angel | Jul 15, 2016 |  |
| Magentiq Eye Ltd | Magentiq Eye Ltd. was established in 2014 with the aim to harness the most cutting edge computer vision and deep learning techniques to aid doctors in endoscopic procedures. Doctors today spend hours during Endoscopic Procedures looking at the LCD screens in order to explore, examine and treat various conditions. At Magentiq Eye we put the growingpower of Deep Learning, Image and Video Processing to the help of doctors, so they can be more accurate and effective- ultimately saving millions of lives and billions of dollars. Our first product is APDS: Automatic Polyp Detection System, developed to be used in online and offline colonoscopies. Our APDS (Automatic Polyp Detection System) can point out the suspicious locations of polyps in the videos, increasing the attentiveness of doctors during procedures, thus helping them to reduce their polyp miss-rates. Given the large population that annually undergoes colonoscopy, even a modest decrease in polyp miss-rate can save a lot of lives! The APDS- RT runs on the video feed from the endoscopic camera used by the physician in real time during the endoscopic procedure (currently only on Colonoscopy Procedure). The APDS-OFL is a software that runs in off-line mode on pre-Recorded Colonoscopy Videos. It is estimated that 40 million colonoscopy procedures are performed every year (almost 40% in the US alone). The ability of colonoscopy procedures to decrease the number of colon cancer cases has been proven without a doubt and their number expected to grow. However, researches have shown that there is about 25% of misses (undetected polyps) in those procedures, misses which can, unfortunately, cause interval cancer. Within this context The APDS can be sold as an add-on to the colonoscopy system or as a service (license per exam), paid by the clinic or hospital. Once the APDS system would be formally proven, during the next year, to improve polyp detection rate, it could be sold either jointly with the endoscopic equipment providers or it can be integrated in the colonoscopy devices. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2016 |  |
| Skyfront | Skyfront builds extreme endurance, autonomous aircraft for commercial and public safety applications. The company's drones fly for hours and carry large sensors to monitor, detect, and explore for a fraction of the cost of manned aircraft. Skyfront's mission is to replace manned helicopters for aerial data collection. |  | Seed | Jan 28, 2016 |  |
| LakeHawk Technologies | LakeHawk Technologies is to bring autonomous and unmanned surface vehicles (USV's) to a wide range of commercial, local, state and federal, non-militarized markets for scientific study, data collection / management, aqua/agriculture, transportation, surveillance and search and rescue. This will ultimately lead to becoming one of thelargest USV distributors in the United States and beyond. LakeHawk Technologies is the first company to take on the challenges in a specific unique market that currently has few competitors. LakeHawk Tech was started in 2014 by Michael Fiscus. While most groups trying to bring autonomous devices to market are focusing on aerial drones and all of the FAA regulation that comes with it, they are focused on “earth-based” devices initially in the water. Unmanned surface vehicles or USV’s have an $11 Billion market potential by 2020* *MIG Market Info Group 2013 – Year 2020 USV Estimates Their systems have been tested thoroughly for the last 2 + years with 100% satisfaction attested by several of their potential customers where they demonstrated the devices. There are both written and verbal commitments for utilizing their services at 15-20 locations as soon as they are able to deliver the devices, which would be quickly, within months. Their production line is set and ready to go. They have developed a two-stage system utilizing small 45-50” unmanned surface vehicles (USV) to provide a variety of services initially in the Nevada, California and Arizona marketplaces. Their devices are high-speed, quick maneuvering devices utilizing water-cooled, high-torque electronic motors, high power long-life Lithium batteries, stainless steel, aircraft grade aluminum, solid brass propellers which are all CNC machined for high performance and maximum life of the product. The Company is currently in development of a small solar array to be mounted on the top of the drone to provide additional mission time. They have capabilities to build them up to 9'. | $33K | Seed | Dec 06, 2015 |  |
| Dronesmith Technologies | Dronesmith Technologies creates development tools that allow businesses to integrate drone applications into existing workflows. Our software-first solution allows developers to design, test, and iterate their applications in a simulated environment prior to deploying on drone hardware.We help businesses who want to adopt drone technologies goto market faster by lowering the barrier for entry to robotics. Our technologies are being used to incorporate commercial solutions such as hazardous material detection, swarming, precision agriculture, entertainment, and much more. Our aim is to provide a breakthrough platform to power an entire ecosystem of next-generation drone solutions. | $320K | Seed | Jun 12, 2015 |  |
| Numerion Labs | Atomwise is a preclinical pharma company revolutionizing how drugs are discovered with AI. We invented the use of deep learning for structure-based drug discovery, today developing a pipeline of small-molecule drug candidates advancing into preclinical studies. Our AtomNet® technology has been used to unlock more undruggable targets than any otherAI drug discovery platform. We are tackling over 600 unique disease targets with more than 250 partners around the world, including leading pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and emerging biotechnology companies. Atomwise has raised over $174 million from leading venture capital firms to advance our mission to make better medicines, faster. Learn more at atomwise.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Mar 23, 2015 |  |
| PreNav | PRENAV was founded in October 2013 with a goal of solving autonomous flight in complex environments. Since then, they’ve assembled one of the top robotics teams in the world, with experts in computer vision, mechanical engineering, aeronautics, embedded systems, and software. In their short history, they’ve taken their technology to largeindustrial sites, inspected wind turbines, designed playful light shows, filmed music videos, and traveled around the world for their customers. And they’re only just getting started.At PRENAV, they’re solving fundamental challenges in robotics around localization, materials, planning, and computer vision in order to build autonomous systems that are ready for the real world. | $753K | Seed | Aug 06, 2014 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alliance of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-of-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Drone.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drone-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Social Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chaac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chaac-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grape Arbor VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grape-arbor-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Capital One

VC Fund · Mclean, United States

Capital One Financial Corporation, incorporated in July 21, 1994, is a diversified banking company focused primarily on consumer and commercial lending and deposit origination.

5 contacts available at Capital One.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Lambdin | Senior Manager, AI Design & UX/UI | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-lambdin |
| David McCarthy | Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Credit Risk Officer, and Market and Liquidity Oversight | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-mccarthy-2 |
| Erik Mueller | Senior Director of Machine Learning Engineering and Senior Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-mueller |
| Eslam Khalil | Director of Retail Design and Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eslam-khalil |
| Jennifer Jackson | President, Capital One Canada | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-jackson-12e8 |

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## FAQ

### What does David E. Weekly invest in?

David E. Weekly invests primarily in Drones, Robotics and Aerospace startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 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 E. Weekly's check size?

David E. Weekly typically joins rounds of $33k–$1.1M at Seed, $1M–$1M at Angel and $100k–$120k 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 E. Weekly participates in.

### When did David E. Weekly last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David E. Weekly closed in May 2017. Shizune tracks 12 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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