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Dave Mcclure is listed as Founder: Practical Venture Capital, 500 Startups at Practical Venture Capital, based in Los Altos, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at 500startups.com, phone signal with area code 650, 415, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Dave Mcclure.
Dave Mcclure previously worked as Founder, Managing Partner at Practical Venture Capital and Co-Founder at 42Geeks. Dave Mcclure holds Bs Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science. from The Johns Hopkins University.
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I've been an engineer, entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley for 30 years. I founded Practical Venture Capital and 500 Startups, and worked at Founders Fund and PayPal. I’ve invested in hundreds of startups around the world, including 40+ unicorns and 10+ IPOs. I made the Forbes Midas List of top 100 global VCs in 2016 and 2017. I have a BS in Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. I'm a nerd.[Practical Venture Capital]In 2019 I founded Practical Venture Capital, a VC secondary firm that provides liquidity solutions for LPs and GPs in early-stage VC funds. We specialize in buying LP & GP fund interests in microVC funds at years 5-10 (“skip the J-curve”), as well as direct secondary in breakout companies within those portfolios. [500 Startups]In 2010 I founded 500 Startups, a Silicon Valley VC firm with over $2B AUM that has invested in 3,000 companies and 5,000 founders across 80 countries. Investments include 35+ unicorns and 10+ IPOs: TWLO (IPO 2016), SEND (IPO 2017), REAL (IPO 2019), Credit Karma (acq INTU $8B 2020), FLYW (IPO 2021), BARK (IPO 2021), GRAB (IPO 2021), GTLB (IPO 2021), UDMY (IPO 2021), Paidy (acq PYPL $2.7B 2022), Canva, TalkDesk, Lucid, Intercom, Innovacer, Algolia, Solana. We created 20 VC funds under the 500 brand, and invested in 20 other VC funds globally.[Founders Fund, Facebook fbFund]From 2008-10 I was a VC at Founders Fund with Peter Thiel and Sean Parker. I made seed-stage investments in 42 companies resulting in 5 unicorns / 4 IPOs (TWLO, SEND, LYFT, Credit Karma, Life 360), and I led the seed round in Credit Karma (acq INTU, >400X return). The $3M portfolio I managed returned >$180M (~60X, fully realized).[PayPal, Aslan, Johns Hopkins]In 2001 I joined PayPal as Director of Marketing. Before PayPal I was founder/CEO of Aslan Computing (acq by Servinet, 1998). I graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics, and played lots of ultimate frisbee with other engineers and CS nerds. I was born in Morgantown, WV and also grew up in Columbia, MD. I’m a fan of Dr. Seuss, Sesame Street, Schoolhouse Rock, and Free to Be You & Me.
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Palo Alto, CA, US
Practical Venture Capital is a microVC secondary firm that provides liquidity for LPs and GPs in early-stage VC funds. We specialize in LP/GP fund interests in microVC funds at years 5-10 (“skip the J-curve”), as well as direct secondary in breakout companies in those portfolios.
New York, New York, US
Along with Chok Ooi, I co-founded 42 Geeks in 2022 to help connect entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley and New York with other people around the world who are interested in startups, technology, and investing. Our goals are to help spread curiosity and innovation, and encourage people all over the planet to get more involved in startups and.
Los Gatos, California, US
I’m an investor and owner in the Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA), the professional sports league for ultimate frisbee in the US and Canada. I’m also part of the ownership group for the Oakland Spiders and Los Angeles Aviators. I’ve been a player and fan of ultimate frisbee for over 30 years, and I started playing in college at Johns Hopkins in 1985.
San Francisco, California, US
I founded 500 Startups, a global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley with >$2B AUM and 100+ employees in 20 countries around the world. 500 has made investments in over 2,500 companies across 75 countries resulting in over 40 unicorns and 10+ IPOs, including Twilio (TWLO), SendGrid (SEND), Credit Karma (acq INTU $8B), Grab (GRAB), GitLab.
I started GeeksOnaPlane back in 2009 when I was working at Founders Fund, and we did our first trip to East Asia with Christine Lu. Over the next 8 years, as I was building the 500 Startups platform, we took hundreds of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors on more than 20 GeeksOnaPlane trips around the world. We visited 30+ countries / 50+ cities and.
San Francisco, CA, US
I invested and managed $3M (returned >$180M) in two early-stage portfolios: the FF Angel seed fund (part of Founders Fund II) and the Facebook fbFund, an incubator for Facebook-related startups. I made 42 seed-stage investments resulting in 4 unicorns / IPOs: Twilio (TWLO), SendGrid (SEND), Lyft (LYFT), and Credit Karma ($8B acq by INTU).
I was an investor and/or advisor in ~15 internet startups including: Mint.com (acq INTU), oDesk (NASDAQ:UPWK), Mashery (acq INTC), TeachStreet (acq AMZN), KissMetrics, Jambool (acq GOOG), Twilio (NYSE:TWLO), WePay (acq JPM) and SlideShare (acq LNKD).
Sebastopol, CA, US
Web 2.0 Expo (2006-2008): I helped create & co-chair the Web 2.0 tech conference. I organized 60 talks with 100+ speakers, and helped market the event to 10,000 attendees.Graphing Social Patterns (2007-2008): I created a tech conference for O'Reilly on Facebook and social platforms. We produced 3 events attended by >1,000 developers & investors.
Stanford, CA, US
I was a visiting lecturer and instructor at Stanford with Prof. BJ Fogg for CS377W, Creating Engaging Facebook Applications. We created and taught the first-ever course on building Facebook applications, and received national news coverage. In 3 months our students created 50 Facebook apps resulting in 20M installs and 1M users. 5 teams had >1M installs, 3.
US
I led the marketing team responsible for launch, PR, content, search marketing, metrics, and community. I helped create the Simply Hired brand and voice, and led strategic partnerships with LinkedIn and O'Reilly. I was an angel investor in the Series B round in 2005. The company was acquired by Recruit in 2016.
San Jose, CA, US
I started and led the PayPal Developer Network program, a community of ~300,000 web and e-commerce developers using PayPal. I managed a team of tech evangelists to deliver education, solutions, content and marketing. I joined PayPal prior to IPO, and stayed for 3 years through the subsequent acquisition by eBay.
I founded and bootstrapped an internet & ecommerce company to $2M revenue and 20 employees in 3 years. Clients included Intel, Microsoft, Netscape, Stanford, and Intuit. The company won Microsoft Partner of the Year, Northern California in 1997, and was acquired by Servinet in January 1998. I continued to manage the business unit profitably.
I developed client/server apps and SQL database systems for corporate clients in Silicon Valley. I worked as a consultant with Microsoft developing mission-critical capacity planning and scheduling systems for Intel.
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Dave Mcclure works for Practical Venture Capital.
Dave Mcclure is listed as Founder: Practical Venture Capital, 500 Startups at Practical Venture Capital.
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Dave Mcclure is based in Los Altos, California, United States while working with Practical Venture Capital.
Dave Mcclure has worked for Practical Venture Capital, 42Geeks, Ufa, 500 Startups, and Geeksonaplane.
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Dave Mcclure holds Bs Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science. from The Johns Hopkins University.
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