About

David is Managing Partner of F-Prime Capital’s Tech Fund. He loves investing at the intersection of fintech and enterprise software, and has led investments in Flywire (NASDAQ: FLYW), Toast (NYSE: TOST), Snapdocs, Kensho (acquired by S&P Global), FutureAdvisor (acquired by BlackRock), Quovo (acquired by Plaid), EVEN Financial (acquired by MoneyLion), Vendr, 1upHealth, Notabene, TradeBlock (acquired by CoinDesk), Papaya Payments, Unison, Tradier, Axoni, Parrot Software, Canoe Intelligence, and Cloudant (acquired by IBM). David was co-founder of Sensoria and VP of Product Strategy at Into Networks, an F-Prime Capital-backed company. David was also a senior executive at Cisco Systems and held early positions with J.P. Morgan and BCG.

David graduated from Harvard Law School and earned degrees in economics and accounting from Indiana University. David is passionate about FinTech Sandbox, a nonprofit he co-founded in 2015 to serve fintech entrepreneurs by aggregating data and infrastructure for free during a startup’s development phase. FinTech Sandbox has supported 200+ startups and fostered a vibrant organization with more than 5,000 community members. He also serves on the Boards of Artists for Humanity and the Mass Fintech Hub. He is the father of two lovely teens with whom he shares the inspiration that comes from living with his wife Cindy and her poetry, stories, and pursuit of social justice.

  • 1upHealth provides data interoperability between healthcare systems at a very low cost, fractions of a cent per API call, utilizing the latest FHIR® standards, and patient-authorized access, to ensure the best insights at the lowest costs across healthcare providers for low-income, diverse, and vulnerable populations. Learn more at https://1up.health.

  • Argyle provides a single global access point to employment data. From that access point, any business can process verifications, gain real-time transparency into earnings as well as view and update worker profile details. By removing the barriers between a worker, the companies they make money from, and the business they buy services and products from Argyle has reimagined how employment data can be used. Argyle was founded in 2018 and operates out of New York. Learn more at www.argyle.io.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      New York, NY

    • Year Invested

      2020

    • Team

  • Axoni is a New York-based technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure with clients that include many of the world’s largest financial institutions and capital markets infrastructure companies. Founded in 2013 by a team of distributed ledger technology experts, the company offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools. Learn more at www.axoni.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      New York, NY

    • Year Invested

      2016

    • Team

  • Canoe’s mission is to unlock efficiencies in alternative investment processes by introducing purpose-built automation into the workflows of institutional investors, asset servicers, capital allocators and wealth managers. Learn more at canoeintelligence.com.

  • Cloudant offered a distributed NoSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for developers creating web and mobile applications. Cloudant was acquired by IBM in 2014.

  • Codeship operates a cloud-based platform that helps software developers test and deploy their code more efficiently through continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD). Codeship was acquired by Cloudbees in 2018. Learn more at codeship.com.

  • Eris Exchange is an interest rate swaps trading venue that provides the flexibility of OTC swaps within a futures contract, helping institutions manage the complexities of Dodd Frank derivatives regulations. Learn more at www.erisfutures.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Chicago, IL

    • Year Invested

      2012

    • Team

  • Even Financial is an NYC based FinTech company focused on evolving how financial institutions connect with consumers and provide them with the best product recommendations at the right moment, facilitating an on-demand and personalized customer acquisition experience across the entire financial services ecosystem. The Even platform serves as a trusted intermediary for financial institutions – including Prosper, Lending Club and Marcus by Goldman Sachs – that helps find consumers and distribute their products digitally. Even’s industry-leading search, comparison and recommendation API is an infrastructure layer that enables hundreds of diverse partners – including Credit.com, Transunion, Money Under 30, Credit Sesame and The Penny Hoarder – to power comprehensive personal finance websites, mobile apps and other offerings with a modern platform that is proven to accelerate customer acquisition through optimal product recommendations, lowering cost of acquisition and maximizing monetization. Even Financial was acquired by MoneyLion in 2021.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      New York, NY

    • Year Invested

      2015

    • Team

  • Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) solves complex payment problems for businesses and institutions to empower new opportunities globally and locally. Its full-service billing, payment and receivables solutions connect all the entities involved to make those transactions faster, more secure, less expensive, and more transparent. Clients in a variety of industry verticals use Flywire’s platform to tailor the payment experience for their customers and to create a single point of visibility and control for payer engagement and receivables management – from invoicing and payment through reconciliation. Learn more at www.flywire.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Public
    • Location

      Boston, MA

    • Year Invested

      2013

    • Team

  • FutureAdvisor is an online Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) that provides mass affluent investors with low cost, personalized portfolios through an easy-to-use and intuitive user experience. FutureAdvisor was acquired by BlackRock in 2015.  Learn more at www.futureadvisor.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2014

    • Team

  • Guros is a digital insurance marketplace in Mexico that’s transforming the entire insurance experience, from purchasing to managing vehicle insurance. We’re on a mission to democratize insurance in Latin America; both for end-customers and neobanks/fintechs who want to embed insurance into their platform, but need to do so in a much simpler, faster, and reliable way. Learn more at www.guros.com.

  • Kensho is a cloud-based financial data platform for event-driven and macro analysis, targeting buy-side and sell-side financial professionals that need to quickly and efficiently backtest new trading ideas. Kensho was acquired by S&P Global in 2018 for $550M.  Learn more at www.kensho.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      Cambridge, MA

    • Year Invested

      2013

    • Team

  • Notabene is a reg-tech compliance SaaS solution that connects the traditional financial industry and crypto industry. The company works to make crypto transactions a part of the everyday economy by providing software, tools, and comprehensive data to manage regulatory and counterparty risks in crypto transactions. To learn more, visit www.notabene.id.

  • Papaya Payments is a free and easy way to pay your bills. Just snap a photo of a paper bill and Papaya will automatically validate it and facilitate your payment. Learn more at www.papayapayments.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
      • Health IT/Services
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Los Angeles, CA

    • Year Invested

      2018

    • Team

  • Parrot is a Mexican food tech startup that helps the country’s restaurants to digitize and optimize their operations through technology. Its ParrotConnect solution is an all-in-one platform for today’s restaurants: multi-brand and multi-channel, which allows the user to manage all business tasks from one device. Integrate orders from delivery apps, table service and take-away orders on the same screen, configuration of personnel permissions, menu editor, kitchen areas, types of payment, cashier operations, and real-time reports from a single management portal. Learn more at pos.parrotsoftware.io.

  • Quovo is a data platform providing connectivity to consumer financial accounts. Quovo centralizes, organizes, and enriches data from millions of accounts across more than 14,000 institutions to provide businesses with a comprehensive picture of each customers’ financial identity. With industry-specific solutions, clients from emerging fintech startups to Fortune 500 companies rely on Quovo for its seamless technology and rich data insights to deliver more personalized and frictionless customer experiences. Quovo’s unparalleled coverage of the financial ecosystem, powerful data analytics, and flexible deployment options propel businesses in uncovering opportunities to grow their relationships with customers. Quovo was acquired by Plaid in 2019. Learn more at www.quovo.com.

  • Seis is banking for the 44 million native Spanish speakers living in the US. Their mission is to build the most delightful, full-service banking experience for anyone who wants to bank in their native Spanish. Their goal is to make such an amazing banking experience that people will wish they spoke Spanish so they could bank with Seis. They’ll treat Spanish speakers as first-class citizens & end “dial 2 for Español”. Learn more at seis.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Salt Lake City, UT

    • Year Invested

      2022

    • Team

  • Founded in 2013, Snapdocs is the industry’s leading digital closing platform. With its patented AI technology, Snapdocs is on a mission to perfect mortgage closings and transform a $2 trillion pillar of the U.S. economy. Powering over 750,000 closings a year, Snapdocs is leading the charge to modernize, streamline, and improve the mortgage process for lenders, borrowers, and settlement. Snapdocs is the only solution with a proven track record of creating a single, scalable process for every closing, whether wet, hybrid, or digital. Every day, over 50,000 mortgage professionals rely on Snapdocs’ technology to automate manual work and digitize paper processes that plague the industry. Snapdocs is a rapidly growing San Francisco based real estate technology company backed by prestigious Silicon Valley blue-chip venture capital funds, like Y Combinator, SV Angel, Sequoia Capital, and F-Prime Capital. Learn more at www.snapdocs.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team

  • Launched in 2013, Toast powers successful restaurants of all sizes with a technology platform that combines restaurant POS, front of house, back of house and guest-facing technology with a diverse marketplace of third-party applications. By pairing technology with an unrivaled commitment to customer success, Toast helps restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue and deliver amazing guest experiences. Toast was named to the 2018 Forbes Cloud 100 and recognized as the third fastest-growing technology company in North America on the 2017 Deloitte Fast 500. Toast went public in 2021 (NYSE:TOST). Learn more at www.toasttab.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Public
    • Location

      Boston, MA

    • Year Invested

      2016

    • Team

  • Toku is a Chile-based payment orchestration company that offers a solution for collecting recurring payments in LatAm. It has three main value propositions: 1) increase payment acceptance rate via dynamic routing; 2) incur the lowest possible cost by using account-to-account payment; 3) have the best-automated payment experience. Learn more at trytoku.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Santiago, Chile

    • Year Invested

      2021

    • Team

  • TradeBlock serves financial institutions with execution and analysis tools that capitalize on the incredible potential of block chain technologies. TradeBlock was acquired by CoinDesk in 2021.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Acquired
    • Location

      New York, NY

    • Year Invested

      2014

    • Team

  • Unison is the leading provider of home ownership investments, modernizing home financing through long-term partnerships. Unison works with lenders, regulators and institutional investors to integrate home ownership investing into the U.S. housing finance system. Unison HomeBuyer helps purchasers buy the home they want with less debt and risk, typically by doubling the down payment. The larger down payment makes it easier to qualify for a loan, increases buying power, lowers the monthly payment and/or allows a buyer to reserve cash. Unison HomeOwner provides current homeowners with cash to eliminate debt, remodel, pay for school, invest or use as a cash cushion, without the added debt or payments of a home equity loan or HELOC. Learn more at www.unison.com.

    • Category

      • FinTech
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      San Francisco, CA

    • Year Invested

      2018

    • Team

  • Vendr is an end-to-end SaaS purchasing & renewal management platform. They manage your software purchases and renewals, so you can manage your business. Learn more at www.vendr.com.

    • Category

      • Enterprise IT
    • Status

      • Private
    • Location

      Boston, MA

    • Year Invested

      2019

    • Team