# David Young

> David Young is a seed investor at Federated Computer (La Jolla) backing Apps and Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Federated Computer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/federated-computer)
- Location: La Jolla, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2005
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpaulyoung
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/davidpaulyoung

David Young is a seed investor at Federated Computer in La Jolla focused on Apps and Software. David Young is the CEO and Founder of Joyent. David founded Joyent in 2004 to provide a comprehensive suite of internet-delivered software and on-demand infrastructure for small to medium organizations. Prior to Joyent, David worked at Moody’s Investor Service (1989-1999) in the Structured Finance,International, and Digital Media groups asGeneral Manager and corporate Vice President and was co-founder and CTO of manageStar (2000-2004), an enterprise services management software company whose customers included TimeWarner, Sodexho, and Global Signal. David was the principal architect of manageStar’s Harmony platform for service delivery and managed a team of 80+ developers in San Francisco and Bangalore, India. via:

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Automotive | 1 | 100% |
| Open Source | 1 | 100% |
| Web Hosting | 1 | 100% |

9 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joyent | Joyent, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung, helps its customers build and operate modern cloud native applications across multiple clouds. With Joyent, users can experience a new level of operational dexterity and control by leveraging a single infrastructure for managed private cloud, on-premise cloud, or managed hardware cloud, or acombination. It is the cloud infrastructure that delivers bare-metal performance from a virtual machine, enabling applications to run faster and more reliably than on traditional public or private cloud infrastructure. In addition, as the corporate steward of Node.js, Joyent offers exclusive debugging and performance tools for Node.js applications. These capabilities, combined with its expertise and global support, transform companies’ ability to manage and scale cloud applications.Joyent was founded in 2004 by Dean Allen, Jason Hoffman, & David Young. It is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2005 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Federated Computer

VC Fund · Colorado Springs, United States

Federated Computer provides open-source storage services using node.js technology. The company is located in Colorado Springs.

2 contacts available at Federated Computer.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dalton Wright | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dalton-justin-wright |
| David Young | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-young |

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## FAQ

### What does David Young invest in?

David Young invests primarily in Apps, Software and Automotive startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Young last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Young closed in Jan 2005. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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