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Investor profile

Dave McClure

Angel · San Francisco, United States

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75 portfolio companies Angel · $184M invested · 87 investments · Investor rank #10,762 · Last investment 6/2020
Portfolio companies 75 ↑ 14% 5y
Decacorns 2
Thoroughbreds 5
Power Law #471Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 3%
Exits

Dave McClure’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Dave McClure’s transaction record.

Twilio
$2.0B IPO · 2016
Entered SeedNow $28BMarketing
Lyft
$24B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $5.5BTransportation
Credit Karma
$7.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series AFintech
Flywire
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $1.7BFintech
Portfolio analysis

Where Dave McClure’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 75 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA66
  2. Canada3
  3. UK3
  4. Japan2
  5. Malaysia1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software19
  2. Fintech17
  3. Marketing12
  4. Media7
  5. Fashion4
  6. Event Tech3
  7. Jobs Recruitment3
  8. Real Estate3
  9. Telecom3
  10. Education2
  11. Food2
  12. Home Living2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed68
  2. Series A5
  3. Series B+2
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth52
  2. Breakout Stage18
  3. Late Growth5
Portfolio market map

Inside Dave McClure’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 75 tracked.

Stripe
Fintech · Centicorn
$159B
Lyft
Transportation · Unicorn
$5.5B
Credit Karma
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.0B
Flywire
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.7B
Twilio
Marketing · Decacorn
$28B
WePay
Fintech
$350M
Ezra
Health
$84M
Recurly
Fintech
$78M
Mashery
Enterprise Software
$40M
SimplyHired
Jobs Recruitment
$48M
Mint
Fintech
$360M
Price.com
Fashion
$48M
ViralGains
Marketing
$54M
Riskpulse
Transportation
$91M
Gengo
Education
$27M
MoBagel
Enterprise Software
$16M
Virool
Media
$48M
42Floors
Real Estate
$48M
Mattermark
Enterprise Software
$1.0M
DailyWorth
Fintech
$4.0M
CareGuide
Kids
$8.0M
Linkdex
Marketing
$13M
InternMatch
Jobs Recruitment
$16M
CapLinked
Fintech
$4.2M
Nuzzel
Media
$6.8M
RolePoint
Jobs Recruitment
$20M
Farmeron
Food
$11M
AstroPrint
Enterprise Software
$7.0M
Erply
Fintech
$8.6M
Pogoseat
Media
$9.2M
ALLDAY
Marketing
$9.2M
TeachStreet
Education
$4.8M
Stormpulse
Enterprise Software
$8.4M
CoContest
Real Estate
$7.6M
Aingel Corp.
Fintech
$4.0M
Moonfruit
Marketing
$29M
Geekatoo
Telecom
$6.8M
Loku
USA
$8.4M
Partender
Food
$8.0M
Binpress
Enterprise Software
$4.0M
Pick1
Telecom
$4.0M
Mihaibao
Fashion
$6.4M
Chirply
Home Living
$4.4M
Mill River Labs
Fintech
$3.6M
Worldly Developments
Enterprise Software
$3.2M
AwayFind
Travel
$3.2M
Rewardli
Fintech
$2.1M
CultureMap
Marketing
$3.0M
TextualAds
Marketing
$2.6M
Textingly
USA
$2.6M
Makeleaps
Fintech
$2.4M
Toshl
Fintech
$2.4M
Zappli (Acquired by Shopzilla)
Fintech
$2.0M
Manpacks
Wellness Beauty
$2.0M
EventVue
Event Tech
$1.8M
BizeeBee
Enterprise Software
$1.8M
Tech.eu
Media
$1.6M
Limk
Media
$800K
Habit Labs
Dating
$1.0M
MailLift
Marketing
$600K
Portfolio founders

Where Dave McClure’s portfolio founders come from.

79 founders across the 75 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States53
  2. Japan4
  3. Argentina3
  4. Canada2
  5. Malaysia2
  6. United Kingdom2
  7. Germany1
  8. Italy1
  9. Netherlands1
  10. Slovenia1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University6
  2. Harvard Business School5
  3. University of California, Berkeley4
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
  5. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign3
  6. University of Michigan3
  7. Cornell University2
  8. Harvard University2
  9. Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern2
  10. London School of Economics and Political Science2
Previous companyCount
  1. 500 Global3
  2. Foundation Capital2
  3. Hewlett Packard Pathfinder2
  4. HP Enterprise2
  5. Icaro Artificial Intelligence2
  6. McMaster-Carr2
  7. PayPal2
  8. Zynga2
  9. Aboutthedata.com1
  10. Acclarent1
How Dave McClure stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

500 Global
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#430 rank 2,321 companies $289B portfolio
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#108 rank 985 companies $3.7T portfolio
Sequoia
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#3 rank 1,919 companies $22T portfolio
Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $2.9T portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,187 companies $4.5T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,094 companies $1.9T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#55 rank 847 companies $1.9T portfolio
Khosla Ventures
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#53 rank 854 companies $1.9T portfolio
Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.