David Wu

David Wu is a partner at Maveron. He joined Maveron in 2012 to help identify new investments in emerging consumer Internet companies. He has served on the board of directors of Darby Smart. He is a successful entrepreneur, technology executive and angel investor who began his two-decade career in the computer and Internet industry by writing several hundred thousand lines of C++ code at Scitor and Synopsys. He subsequently spent 10 years at Homestead.com, where he was chief product officer, chief financial officer and chief operating officer, helping grow the company to more than 400,000 paying subscribers and eventually being acquired by Intuit for $170 million in 2007. After acquiring Homestead, Wu led various divisions of Intuit as vice president in the small business group, including QuickBooks Online and Intuit.com. At Intuit and Homestead, Wu worked with Homestead board member, Intuit chairman and Maveron senior advisor Bill Campbell, who recommended Wu to Maveron. Wu led Maveron V’s investments in Darby Smart and Aria Innovations and serves on the board of directors of each company. He organized and led Maveron IV’s investment in August Home, where he was a board member, as well as several Maveron seed investments. Wu has close ties to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community. Before joining Maveron, he invested in 22 startups, including SeatMe, Practice Fusion, Sociable Labs, Postmates, Beautylish and Taulia (as of June 30, 2014, that portfolio was valued at 4.4 times the price). He can often be found coaching and mentoring entrepreneurs at Stanford Business School and leading Bay Area incubators such as Y-Combinator, AngelPad, 500Startups and Stanford’s StartX. He recently served on the board of directors of Maveron IV’s portfolio company, SeatMe, which was acquired by Yelp (NASDAQ: YELP), and was also chairman of the Internet Committee on the deal selection committee of Band of Angels, the oldest seed funding organization in Silicon Valley. Wu, a Bay Area native, holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University. He is a board member and advisor to Instamotor.