David Thacker
Venture Partner
David invests in mission driven founders who are tackling big problems with great product experiences.
David partners with mission-driven founders who are building compelling products targeting consumers and business users. His investment focus areas include productivity and business applications, marketplaces, and gaming.
Since joining Greylock in 2020, David has led investments in startups that are improving how we work such as Magical, Instawork, and AmplifyMD; marketplaces like Curated and HeadRace; and the gaming infrastructure company Pragma. He has also led investments in Wealthsimple and several other unannounced companies.
With an extensive background in senior product leadership roles across both consumer and enterprise technology, David brings unique insights to company-building, product development and go-to-market strategy. He has built out products and new businesses for some of the most iconic companies in the world, including Google and LinkedIn. At Greylock he works closely with early-stage founders on finding product-market fit, building the right team, and creating a durable business.
Immediately prior to joining Greylock, David served as VP of Product Management & User Experience at Google. He led a team of over three hundred product managers, designers, and user researchers responsible for Google’s productivity and collaboration products (Google Workspace) including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet and several others. During David’s tenure overseeing these cloud applications, his team launched a number of innovative AI product features, scaling usage of these products to 2 billion active users. He also led targeted efforts to increase business adoption of Google Workspace which helped drive the rapid growth of the Google Cloud business.
Prior to Google, David managed products across LinkedIn’s business lines including Premium Subscriptions, Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions and Sales Solutions. These products included a mix of enterprise SaaS tools, advertising products, and consumer subscriptions — generating about $4B in annualized revenue at the time. David’s product team focused on leveraging AI combined with LinkedIn’s proprietary data to create unique product experiences for LinkedIn’s members and customers. He was also involved in pivotal company moments such as Microsoft’s 2016 acquisition of LinkedIn.
Earlier in his career, David served on the Greylock investing team from 2009-2011. His sound judgment, independent thinking and hustle were key factors in several very successful investments such as Redfin, Pandora, and TellApart.
David grew up in Austin, Texas and holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
He is the co-inventor of thirteen United States patents, including a number of AI-powered product features.
Previous Investments
Current Investments
Credit building app for everyone.
DOMAIN
Fintech & Crypto
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
Team-building platform to connect and celebrate employees.
https://www.getairspeed.com/Airspeed is a team-building platform designed to easily connect and celebrate employees. Airspeed’s suite of apps offers simple and fun solutions to celebrate employee milestones, recognize colleagues with kudos, connect hybrid or remote teams and more. Airspeed’s platform serves as a system of record for culture, and helps companies build a strong culture of engagement, recognition, and collaboration.
DOMAIN
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Doug Camplejohn, CEO & Founder
Denise Sandoval, VP Operations & Finance
Dan Chiao, Head of Engineering
HQ
Remote / Vancouver, WA
Telemedicine platform connecting medical institutions with specialists.
AmplifyMD connects medical institutions with a lack of specialty access – often in rural or small regions of the United States – to a network of leading specialists. The company provides both the clinical team as well as the software to streamline and automate virtual care delivery and billing workflows and integrates seamlessly with hospitals’ existing EHRs.
DOMAIN
Marketplace & Commerce
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Meena Mallipeddi, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Anand Nathan, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
HQ
Los Gatos, CA
Together we'll find it.
Curated is an ecommerce platform that helps consumers understand differences between products by connecting them with passionate experts who share their first-hand knowledge and expertise.
DOMAIN
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce
FIRST PARTNERED
Series B
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Eduardo Vivas, CEO
Annabel Liu, VP Engineering
Peter Ombres, COO
Alex Vauthey, CTO
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
The recruiting cloud.
Headrace operates a network for recruiting services. The company makes it easier for employers to find qualified and interested candidates to hire in addition to helping independent recruiters grow their earnings.
DOMAIN
Marketplace & Commerce, SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Laszlo Korsos (CEO)
Kevin Brinig (COO/CPO)
Amos Barreto (CTO)
HQ
Austin
Flexible staffing for today's local workforce.
Instawork is the leading flexible staffing solution for local, hourly professionals. Its digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than one million workers in the U.S., filling a critical role in local economies. Instawork helps businesses in food & beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent job opportunities in more than 25 U.S. markets.
DOMAIN
Marketplace & Commerce
FIRST PARTNERED
Series C
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Christine Kim, David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Sumir Meghani, CEO & Co-Founder
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
Ambient, user-enabled automation to eliminate tasks.
https://www.getmagical.com/With no integrations and just a simple keystroke, Magical can move data across your websites and apps, speeding up workflows like messaging, data-entry, populating spreadsheets and more. Over 10,000 businesses use Magical today with the average user eliminating approximately seven hours of work a week after integrating Magical into how they work.
DOMAIN
AI, SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Harpaul Sambhi, Founder & CEO
Zach Piepmeyer, Co-founder & Head of Design
Rosie Chopra, Co-founder & COO
Prashant Viswanathan, Co-founder & Head of Growth Engineering
HQ
San Francisco, CA
AI Drug Discovery platform
Optic Inc., an AI drug discovery company, creators of Bioptic.io — a proprietary ligand-based molecular search AI. Bioptic identifies small molecules by their activity-expressing fingerprints, assisting drug hunters in discovering a diverse set of candidates. Our pipeline includes three pre-clinical stage programs, showcasing our commitment to practical, AI-driven solutions in cancer therapy.
DOMAIN
AI, SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Andrey “Dobry” Doronichev, CEO
HQ
San Francisco
The backend game engine.
https://pragma.gg/Pragma makes it easier, more affordable, and more scalable for game developers to launch new games by providing a “backend as a service” solution.
DOMAIN
Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Eden Chen, CEO & Co-Founder
Chris Cobb, CTO & Co-Founder
HQ
Los Angeles, CA | USA
Powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money.
https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/Wealthsimple is a financial company on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by providing products and advice that are accessible and affordable. Using smart technology, Wealthsimple takes financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and makes them simple, transparent, and low-cost.
DOMAIN
Consumer, Fintech & Crypto
FIRST PARTNERED
Series E
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
David Thacker
LEADERSHIP
Michael Katchen, CEO
Brett Huneycutt, COO
Rudy Adler, CPO
HQ
Toronto | Canada
Customer-first real estate brokerage.
DOMAIN
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce
FIRST PARTNERED
Series D
CURRENT STATUS
Public
INVESTORS
James Slavet
LEADERSHIP
Glenn Kelman, President & CEO
HQ
Seattle, WA | USA
Predictive customer analytics.
DOMAIN
Consumer
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
James Slavet
LEADERSHIP
Josh McFarland, CEO & Co-Founder
HQ
Burlingame, CA | USA
Internet music and radio discovery service.
DOMAIN
Consumer
FIRST PARTNERED
Series F
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
David Sze
LEADERSHIP
Tim Westergren, Founder
HQ
Oakland, CA | USA
