David Beisel

David Beisel is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm with offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco. The NextView Ventures team are high conviction, hands-on seed investors, championing founders who want to redesign the Everyday Economy. David's investments include Attentive, TripleLift, Code Climate, Parsec, BookBub, thredUP, Hatch, and TapCommerce (acquired by Twitter for $100M). Prior to NextView, David served as a Vice President at Venrock (early stage VC firm originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family). Previously, David co-founded Sombasa Media, an e-mail marketing company best known for its flagship property BargainDog.com, which he grew to 5M registered members. Sombasa was successfully acquired by About.com, which was soon after acquired by Primedia (NYSE: PRM), where he was Vice President of Marketing. David's educational background includes an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB in Economics, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Duke University.