Dave McClure is the Managing Partner at Practical Venture Capital, based in United States, North America. Dave McClure studied B.S.  Applied Mathematics & Engineering @ The Johns Hopkins University. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.

Mint

Mashery is the world's leading provider of API technology and services. We have helped over 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Hoover's, Klout, Associated Press, Rdio, and Travelocity—take advantage of APIs to build new revenue channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery's unique, holistic approach to API management encompasses working with clients to craft profitable platform strategies, ensuring fast, reliable API access, and facilitating relationships with our network of developers.

Since Mashery was founded in 2006, we have built a global API delivery network that supports 60,000 active apps built by over 200,000 developers. In May 2013, we officially became a part of Intel Corporation.

Mashery

Mill River Labs is a company founded by four former [PayPal](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paypal) employees.  Their first product, TradeVibes was purchased in September 2009 by [VentureBeat](/organization/venturebeat/).

Mill River Labs

SlideShare is an online community that allows users to upload and share PowerPoint presentations, documents, and infographics. It also provides users the ability to rate, comment on, and share the uploaded content. It's been almost 16 Years we are giving you services for making your presentations. Now we have planned to give you service in field of educational helping material. For this purpose we have collaborated with certkillers Dubai Expo 2022 and soon we will add education section in our website in collaboration with certkillers.net. You can also find educational helping material on [Certkillers.net](https://www.certkillers.net)

SlideShare

Simply Hired, a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, operates job search engines in 24 countries and 12 languages. With more than 30 million unique visitors per month, the company provides job seekers access to millions of job openings across all job categories and industries, reaching job seekers on the web, mobile devices, email, and via thousands of partner sites including The Washington Post, Fox Business, Bloomberg Businessweek, Computerworld, International Nurses Association, and Hero2Hired. Simply Hired enables employers to efficiently and cost-effectively reach candidates searching for jobs through its full-service pay-per-click (PPC) and self-service pay-per-post job advertising solutions. Simply Hired was founded in 2005 and is privately held with funding from Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures. For more information, visit www.simplyhired.com.

Simply Hired

WePay is a payment provider focused solely on meeting the needs of online platforms that need to settle money between their users. Founded in 2008, it provides everything an online marketplace or cloud software provider needs to provide integrated payments from within their app while maintaining trust and safety. This includes not just credit card processing, but also complete solutions for managing fraud risk, regulatory compliance, and customer support provided at no extra cost. WePay is venture-backed with more than $74.15 million and was named to the Inc. 500 list in 2015 as 62nd fastest-growing private company in the US.

WePay

Recurly gracefully handles all the complexities of subscription billing and revenue optimization.

Recurly, Inc. provides enterprise-class recurring billing management for thousands of subscription-based SaaS, Web 2.0, Mobile, content and publishing businesses worldwide. Since it’s launch in January of 2010, Recurly has deployed subscription billing for companies throughout North America and the European Union. 

As the leading recurring billing platform Recurly ensures setup is easy, integrations are quick and their service sales with the needs of any business.  With Recurly merchants can be ready to accept payments and focus on growing sales in days not weeks.

They improve subscriber economics
Recurly reduces subscriber churn resulting from unnecessary credit card declines.  Card recycling delivers a 10-27% improvement in recovered invoices.

They improve operational efficiency
Their dashboard helps merchant staff easily handle customer-related billing issues.  Upgrades, downgrades, voids and refunds are all handled with a few simple clicks.  No training required.

They reduce PCI compliance costs
As a level 1 PCI compliant service provider Recurly greatly reduces your costs and obligations associated with PCI compliance.

Recurly

ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices.  ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions about the products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families.

ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living.

ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless.

ecomom

LookSharp (powering InternMatch) is an online platform that connects students with amazing companies and helps companies hire amazing students.  LookSharp allows companies of all sizes to build their employment brand on campus and expand their college hiring reach to more universities.  

Founded in 2009 by Andrew Maguire and Nathan Parcells, InternMatch (now LookSharp) began as a Washington only platform.  In September of 2010 InternMatch expanded their services to the west coast.  In November of 2011 InternMatch expanded nationally and launched their Campus Hub product which stays up year-round and displays rich content about a company including, video, photos and social media streams.  The goal is help students better select where to apply and help companies find hires more likely to succeed.

In January of 2013 InternMatch expanded their Campus Hub so companies use it to not only act as a central, easy to update location for their internship programs, but also could build unique messages for underclassmen, diverse students and new grad hires.  InternMatch also launched a pared down self-service version of their Campus Hub, allowing smaller students to add rich content and helping make the internship discover process for students on InternMatch more complete.

Overall, to support it's college hiring ecosystem LookSharp focuses on three things:
First, LookSharp is looking to make the internship search and posting process incredibly simple. On the LookSharp platform both internship seekers and employers can search for a match, receive skill and location based matching recommendations, and access tools to manage the application process. Students can also search and apply to opportunities without registering.  

Second, LookSharp has built and continues to construct an evolving library of resources and tools. Students can access tools for resume creation, internship preparation, and more. Organizations can access resources that help with intern management, program development and advice on compensation. 

Third, LookSharp has built the infrastructure to help interested students connect with socially responsible positions especially at nonprofit organizations. Rather than volunteer, students recognize the value in experiential learning that combines positive social impact with career building which is a key tenet for LookSharp.

LookSharp

Founded in 2010 in San Francisco, Zappli Inc. was a provider of mobile-centric shopping solutions. and was acquired by Shopzilla in 2013. 

Zappli was the creator of InstaBuy, a universal 2-click check-out solution, designed to remove the massive friction associated with online/mobile checkouts. It enabled consumers to buy from hundreds of the largest online merchants in two clicks and just seconds. Some of the unique aspects of InstaBuy included the facts that users didn't have to visit the retailers' sites/apps to complete their purchases and that merchants were not required to perform any implementation on their side. In addition, Zappli developed one of the first universal shopping cart technologies, allowing consumers to add millions of products from hundreds of retailers to a single cart and to check out once.

Zappli (Acquired by Shopzilla)

Moonfruit is a London-based team of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about great design, great products, and supporting small businesses, startups, and design communities. 

90% of Moonfruit's customers are small businesses who want to build sites, their way. They expect a higher level of design tools to help build better designed sites for their customers. It is the no.1 hosted website builder in the UK and is growing rapidly in the rest of the world. A third of its users are in the US.  Over 3.4 million sites have been built using their software.  

The software allows users, with no previous web design experience, to design and build sites optimized for web and mobile. Users customize the style and layout of their site so that it reflects their personal brand without having to understand any coding, HTML or CSS providing total design control for everyone.

The software features unique drag and drop tools allow literal design by users. Website features, like forums, shopping basket or social media integration, can be added from internal libraries or external sources. Moonfruit provides a variety of packages to suit users including free, standard and business premium subscriptions.

Moonfruit

Hipster is creating a real-time, visual public record of the world’s locations.

Using their iPhones and Android devices, people share where they are and what they are doing by sending their friends a photographic postcard.  The postcards become permanently attached to the locations they were sent from, and are forever accessible to all those who come later.


Based in SOMA, San Francisco, and founded in 2010 by Doug Ludlow, Ethan Czahor, and Steffen Hoffman.

Hipster

simplehoney's mobile product, I Want Wish Lists, is the evolution of wish list shopping.

Everyone has a wish list, whether it is places you want to go or things you want to buy. But none of our lists ever help make our dreams come true.

simplehoney's goal is to make your wish lists help you. With I Want Wish Lists, you simply create a list of the products you want to buy and they let you know when it is the right time to buy and where. 

simplehoney was founded by [Eric Nakagawa](/person/eric-nakagawa) and [Joyce Kim](/person/joyce-kim). Eric is a web developer who previously co-founded [icanhascheezburger.com](/organization/cheezburger-network) and has developed iOS apps focused on Hawaii travel and tourism. Joyce is a recovering corporate attorney and was previously CEO of [soompi.com](/organization/soompi) (acquired by a Korean media company in early 2011).

simplehoney is funded by several successful entrepreneurs-turned-angels: Tim Young (Socialcast and about.me), Jameson Hsu and Bob Ippolito (Mochi Media), Ryan Scott (Causecast and NetCreations), Ed Roman (The Middleware Company), Dave McClure (500 Startups) and its own founders, Joyce Kim and Eric Nakagawa. Hiten Shah, Daniel Burka and Jason Hoffman are advisors to the company.

SimpleHoney

ToutApp builds software to empower sales teams so they can become revenue generating machines. Companies like Citrix, ProCore, XO Group uses ToutApp to generate more pipeline, close deals faster, and forecast more accurately.

ToutApp

Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance.

Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine.

Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, Lowercase Capital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin.

Nuzzel

Virool was acquired by Turgo in October 2017. In its history, Virool has raised over $20M from renowned investors including Y-Combinator, Draper Fisher Juvertson, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups and Yahoo! Japan. 

More than 30,000 global advertisers used Virool platform to promote their video messages, engage their audience and elevate their brand. More than 100,000 online and mobile publisher properties have run video content from Virool via programmatic partnerships, native placements and direct integrations. Virool was trusted by some of the biggest brands in the world including Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Disney, Sony, Anheuser-Busch, Turkish Airlines, Intel, and Levi's. 

Virool was founded in 2012 and raised $6.62M in seed funding from a collection of top VC firms and angel investors. It was the biggest seed investment that any Y-Combinator graduate has ever received.

Virool

Originally known as ViewMarket, CultureMap is a local digital lifestyle brand leveraging various technologies to engage with more than 2.5 million users each month. Co-founded by experienced entrepreneurs Alexander Muse and Robert Bennett, the company has raised approximately $1M in seed capital from prominent investors including 500 Startups and Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate (the last valuation was $7.5M pre-money).  

Over the past two years the company has developed various web, mobile, video and iBeacon technology platforms to scale a digital lifestyle brand. To that end the company acquired two existing brands including CultureMap and RSVP for stock. By integrating our technology the company is now generating approximately $360K per month in revenue and operating on a breakeven basis. Presently the company has rolled out in Houston, Dallas and Austin (adding San Antonio and Fort Worth in Q4). Our footprint includes a local digital media presence as well as a targeted iBeacon deployment in retail through each market. 

The company has begun raising a $5M Series A to expand its digital and iBeacon footprint into New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. Based on current projections the company expects to generate approximately $100M in annual revenue within 36 months following the expansion.

CultureMap

Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups.

Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world's leading dealmakers - venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to deal sourcing and due diligence.

The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups.

Mattermark

Tech.eu is the premier online publication dedicated to the growing European technology ecosystem(s), delivering a range of editorial products with a clear focus on curated news, actionable information and educational interviews with movers and shakers from across Europe, combined with insightful market intelligence reports based on our proprietary database, events, a jobs platform and a variety of other services.

Tech.eu

Postling is a tool that helps small businesses face the daunting task of social media marketing. Brought to you by the founders of Etsy.com, Postling lets users publish content simultaneously to the major social media platforms, including blogs, Twitter, and Facebook.  In addition, users can read and respond to comments left by readers.
 
Small business owners told the Postling team that they would be willing to pay for a social media marketing tool that saves them time and spares them from learning how to navigate yet another website. They listened and created Postling.

Postling

Binpress helps developers build a profitable business from working on open-source projects. It brings the business model of open-source giants such as MySQL and Red-Hat to the long-tail of open-source projects with dual and commercial licensing, and through providing customization, integration and support services. At the same time, Binpress reduces risk and friction for businesses to adopt open-source, with permissive commercial licensing and with guaranteed support.

The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Binpress

Geekatoo.com offers at-home tech support at prices up to 75% off of Geek Squad. They offer a range of fix-priced services and an auction model for custom jobs.

They work with 6,000+ providers across the US ready to provide service and troubleshoot issues such as smart home product installation, computer repair, virus removal, camera and printer repair, building websites, and home theater installation. 

Providers are ranked on Geektitude score, which affects their ability to get work. This score is based on previous job satisfaction, certifications and education.

Geekatoo

MakeLeaps is online invoicing software for freelancers and businesses in Japan. Create beautiful invoices and optionally include your company logo and hanko. We can even print and send your invoice anywhere in Japan for only ¥199. Create a free account today.

MakeLeaps

RolePoint's mission is to rethink the way organizations access and retain the highest quality talent by driving the shift in how enterprises use data to hire.

RolePoint

Social Tables is a web-based event planning platform for hospitality, meeting, and event professionals. 

They wanted to make event planning less stressful so they built software using cutting-edge technology that consolidates every part of your event planning process. Social Tables eases designing a floorplan, streamlines the arduous seating process, saves you a ton of time, and makes event planning fun again. 
Specialties such as Attendee Information Management, Floor Plan Design, Seating Chart Creation, Guest Engagement, Social Seating, Event Planning

Social Tables

Versus offer over 45 million natural language text comparisons ranging from smartphones to universities in 18 languages. With such a huge amount of valuable data at hand, Versus aim to be the go-to wikipedia-scale information source for comparisons.  Since their launch in 2011, traffic has increased on average by 35% each month and is now attracting 3 million unique monthly visitors. Versus raised $3.8 million from Earlybird Venture Capital, Dave McClure, Dario Suter, Lars Dittrich, JMES and HTGF. Versus are based in the heart of Berlin with 30 employees headed by CEO Ramin G. Far.

Versus

Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Presto’s enterprise-grade voice, vision, and touch technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests. With over 250,000 systems shipped, Presto is one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry. Founded at M.I.T. in 2008, Presto is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif. with customers including many of the top 20 restaurant chains in the U.S.

Presto

Dave McClure

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Apr 23, 2015	Headout	Seed Round - Headout	1.8M
Aug 24, 2015	MoBagel	Seed Round - MoBagel	0
Jul 01, 2019	Tribal	Seed Round - Tribal	1.2M
Sep 14, 2021	Terraformation	Equity Crowdfunding - Terraformation	5.0M

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
Nov 16, 2012	42Floors	Series A - 42Floors	500 Global	5.0M
Mar 08, 2017	-	Series A - Goldbelly	500 Global	10.0M
Oct 08, 2018	-	Series B - Goldbelly	500 Global	20.0M
Jul 10, 2023	Exits.me	Pre Seed Round - Exits.me	Practical Venture Capital	1.3M

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Dave McClure has made 49 investments. Their Latest investment was Equity Crowdfunding - Terraformation on Sep 14, 2021

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