David Shapiro Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Blue Ivy Ventures is a community of Yale alums: investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts with a connection to Yale. At our core, we are a venture capital firm focused on Yale alumni. We raise capital from Yale alums and then invest that capital in seed, growth, and later stage companies. We build a 20-30 company annual portfolio for our investors that is diverse across industry, stage and geography. The fund seeks to co-invest alongside of top-tier venture capital lead investors. We are bringing the school's entrepreneurial DNA to our global, engaged community of Yale alumni. Blue Ivy Ventures is part of the Alumni Ventures family of venture funds.

Manchester, Nh, Us

Alumni Ventures is one of the most active VC firms in the U.S., and operates nearly two dozen venture funds serving all accredited investors, including Blue Ivy Ventures for alumni and friends of Yale.We have a rapidly growing portfolio of over 1300+ companies, have raised over $1.2B in capital from our investors, and our community is comprised of 600,000+ alumni, entrepreneurs, and subscribers.

Boston, Ma, Us

Head of a team that managed all corporate development and business development activity globally. Corporate Development included: M&A strategy and activity, capital raising, investment banking and investor relations, and company strategic initiatives. Global Business Development included all strategic partnership activity and ecosystem relationships across a global supply chain of digital media, data, verification partners, and publishers.Specialties: Growth strategies and execution. Deal origination, negotiation, complex structuring and integration. Business model assessment, and all forms of partnership activity.Domain experience: Software (SaaS and cloud-based services), more specifically digital media, programmatic technologies, adtech, and marketing software.

Great Point Capital Advisors was formed in 2008 to manage the east coast venture capital portfolio spun out from 3i Venture Capital. While with Great Point Capital and 3i, I was involved in both early and later stage growth companies serving as a Board of Director for >10 companies including Carbonite, Crystal IS, First Light Biosciences, and Pedestal Software, as well as for later stage growth companies including Brainshark, ImpactRx, Swissray, and Wellpartner.

London, Gb

Part of the team that managed all venture capital and growth equity investment activity on a ~$500 million U.S. portfolio. My focus was on enterprise software (SaaS and cloud-based services), consumer/digital media, and healthcare-IT related investment opportunities.

Co-founded a wireless company that leveraged GPS technology for use in fitness tracking / wellness and personalized marketing.

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

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