# David Williams

> David Williams is a seed investor at 2020 Ventures (San Francisco) backing Mobile and Apps. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [2020 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2020-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddouglaswilliams
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dwtalker
- Website: http://2020.co
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/daviddwilliams

David Williams is a seed investor at 2020 Ventures in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Apps. Investor in real-time web companies in the US & China via 2020 Ventures, LLCPreviously:- Managing Partner at Alacon Ventures, LLC (San Francisco)- Co-founder & Partner at Mandarin Ventures Ltd. (Beijing)- Founder & President of GoodWork International, LLC (Beijing)- Co-founder & SVP Sales & Marketing of Work.com(Redwood City)- Director of E-commerce and Financial Content at Excite.com (Redwood City)- Director of Games Publishing, Powerhouse Entertainment (Dallas)- GM of Consumer Software at Micrografx (Dallas)- Associate M&A at Charterhouse plc (New York)- Analyst, Kidder, Peabody & Co. (New York)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$1.5M |
| Angel | $400k–$600k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 4 | 40% |
| Apps | 2 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Network Security | 2 | 20% |
| Art | 1 | 10% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Angel | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 70% |
| Canada | 3 | 30% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Artory | Artory prepares collectible, real-world assets for the rapidly developing digital, financial ecosystem. The Artory team’s deep experience in the art industry, combined with our network of partners and technology, allows Artory to accelerate the liquidity and investment opportunities for the most trusted physical artworks. With our unique DueDiligence Tool, Artory secures trusted information from expert partners to tokenize physical artworks and real-world assets. This process prepares these objects to be incorporated in traditional financial instruments, next-gen digital-first financial products, and other Web3 opportunities.Artory’s database, which contains over 44 million transaction records from auction houses across the globe, is a core dataset for the annual UBS + Art Basel Global Art Market Report, published by renowned economist Dr. Clare McAndrew. The database is essential to asset valuation when artworks or collectibles participate in digital primary or secondary markets, or other financial products.Artory was founded in 2016 by Nanne Dekking to accumulate and secure trusted data about artworks and collectibles. In 2018, The Artory Registry was the first platform to immutably record artwork information on the blockchain when Artory partnered with Christie’s to exclusively register each piece of art sold from the $323M Barney A. Ebsworth Collection. Through the partnership, Christie’s became the first auction house to record artwork transactions on the blockchain. Artory was launched for public use in late 2019 in partnership with Winston Art Group–the world’s leading independent appraisal firm. The collaboration with Winston Art Group allows individual collectors to register validated information about their personal artworks on the blockchain, giving collectors unprecedented access to the benefits of blockchain security.Since then, Artory has verified, secured on blockchain, and tokenized over $1.5B worth art and collectibles. Starting in 2021, Artory began leveraging the trusted artwork information to tokenize physical artworks to prepare them for safe and efficient trade in the digital financial markets. Artory also owns, maintains, and develops one of the largest databases of art market data. These data are used for sophisticated data insights and data-driven valuations and solutions. Artory’s investors include Hasso Plattner Capital, Knickerbocker Capital LP, Borderless Capital, and Jsquare. | $15.9M | Series A | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Pathful | Pathful shows marketing decision makers precisely how their conversion funnel performs against their competitors and automated insights to improve it. All without any setup, data sifting or overhead typically associated with analytics or conversion optimization solutions. | $400K | Angel | Jun 01, 2014 |  |
| U Grok It | U Grok It is the missing piece to the exploding world of the Internet of Things. Our passive technology that uniquely identifies objects is a key component to digitizing and connecting the physical world. Based on standard UHF RFID U Grok It provides the easy to use way to identify, locate, track and inventory just about anything using yoursmartphone. U Grok It is a complete solution built on our proprietary reader that attaches to any iOS and Android device via the audio port and including vertical applications, a could-based backend that provides recurring revenues and a robust and open software development kit that allows developers tin integrate the features of RFID into their apps. U Grok It makes RFID affordable and accessible. | $600K | Angel | May 05, 2014 |  |
| Optix | Optix, a SaaS platform for coworking and flex workplaces, is a mobile-first solution that puts users at the centre of the workplace experience while giving workplace managers the tools and insights to run and optimize their flexible workplaces. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 19, 2014 |  |
| Prompt.ly | Prompt.ly is the only mobile-first, scheduling, promotion and payment platform for soloprenuers, who in the US alone account for over 1 trillion dollars of economic activity each year.Solopreneurs (including chiropractors, tutors, psychologists, wedding photographers, personal trainers, and babysitters to name a few) use the platform to improvescheduling, promotion & payments. Prompt.ly allows soloprenuers to instantly market available time to existing clients & their friends via social promotion — while clients reduce the pain of scheduling and gain access to discounts for recommending their soloprenuers.The platform is mobile-first like the soloprenuers themselves, integrating the key features they need to run their business entirely on-the-go. Prompt.ly finally brings modern technology to the Invisible Economy. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 25, 2013 |  |
| Osito | Osito (formerly Sherpa) is a predictive intelligence iOS app and platform that gets you the information you need so you can stay one step ahead every day. By combining the power of location data with updates from your calendar, email and daily routine, Osito manages the details of everything from work travel to your weekly meetings and commute.Unlike other applications, services or even personal assistants out there, Osito is proactive, not reactive – and location, not calendar based. It learns what you need to know based on the information you provide, including your location as well as your day-to-day routine – making every day just a little easier.Osito was part of ** | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 25, 2013 |  |
| BRIKA | BRIKA offers a curated assortment of beautiful and unique crafted products from the most talented, authentic artisans and designers. At BRIKA, we believe it is about more than just the products we sell. We tell the stories of the talented and inspiring artisans and makers we partner with. Our vision is to inspire individuals everywhere to discoverthe beauty of a “well-crafted life” through these stories. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2013 |  |
| Everpix | Everpix is the smart photo platform that gives you an effortless way to enjoy your life photo collection. Snap more pictures, stay organized, and have all of your photos on-the-go. Everpix dusts off your memories and lets you see them in a brand new lightEverpix is an online platform that enables its users to store, share, and organizephotographs. It enables its users to take images and organize pictures into folders.Everpix was founded on August 26, 2011 by Wayne Fan, Kevin Quennesson, and Pierre-Olivier Latour. It is based in San Francisco, California. | $1M | Seed | Jul 19, 2012 |  |
| AllTrails | AllTrails is the most trusted and used outdoors platform in the world, reaching 45 million people a year through alltrails.com, the AppStore and Play Store. We help people explore the outdoors with hand-curated trail maps along with photos, reviews, and user recordings crowdsourced from a community of 10 million registered hikers, mountain bikersand trail runners in 102 countries. The iOS and Android apps are often ranked in the top-10 in Health and Fitness in multiple countries and have been downloaded by over 12 million people worldwide. | $400K | Seed | Nov 13, 2011 |  |
| Foodspotting | Foodspotting is visual guide to good food and where to find it: Instead of reading and writing restaurant reviews, you can find and share great dishes. | $750K | Seed | Aug 25, 2010 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ethos Family Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almanack-family-office) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FG Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fg-angels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [2020 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2020-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AngelPad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelpad) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 2020 Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

2020 Ventures is a private fund investing in social mobile web companies at all stages.

1 contacts available at 2020 Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Williams | Founder, CIO & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-williams-5 |

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## FAQ

### What does David Williams invest in?

David Williams invests primarily in Mobile, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 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 Williams's check size?

David Williams typically joins rounds of $400k–$1.5M at Seed and $400k–$600k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Williams participates in.

### When did David Williams last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Williams closed in Apr 2019. Shizune tracks 10 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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