David Beisel | |
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| Alma mater | Duke University Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Occupations | Businessperson venture capitalist |
| Website | www |
David Beisel is an American businessperson and venture capitalist. [1] [2] [3] He is a co-founder and partner at NextView Ventures. [4] [5] [6]
Beisel earned a B.A. in economics from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. [4] [7]
In 2010, Beisel co-founded NextView Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage technology-driven companies. [8] [9] In 2022, NextView raised $200 million across its two most recent investment funds. [10] Beisel's investments through NextView have included companies such as Code Climate, [11] BookBub, [12] thredUP, The Nudge, [13] and TapCommerce. [14] Some of these companies have been acquired or have been listed on stock exchanges. Notable acquisitions or public listings include TapCommerce's acquisition by Twitter for $100 million, [15] Parsec's acquisition by Unity for $320 million, [16] TripleLift's acquisition by Vista Equity Partners for $1.4 billion, [17] and thredUP going public with a $1.3 billion IPO. [18]
Before co-founding NextView Ventures, Beisel founded Sombasa Media, known for its service, BargainDog, which was later acquired by About.com. [19] [4] [20] He also served as a vice president at Venrock, a venture capital firm formed to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller family. [21]
Beisel is credited with developing the concept of social commerce to denote user-generated advertorial content on e-commerce sites. [22] He is also the founder of Boston Innovators Group, formerly known as WebInno, an organization that connects the local startup and entrepreneurship communities. [23] [24]
Beisel was included in Business Insider 's The Seed 100 in 2021, [25] 2022, [26] 2023, [27] and 2024. [28] He was also ranked on the Boston Globe's list of Tech Power Players in 2023. [4]
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