Dave Fachetti

Seed Stage Investor - Partner, Venture Guides

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2015
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Board Member
Feb 2015
Perfecto enables exceptional digital experiences. We help you transform your business and strengthen every digital interaction with a quality–first approach to creating web and native apps, through a cloud–based test environment called the Continuous Quality Lab™. The CQ Lab is comprised of real devices and real end–user conditions, giving you the truest test environment available. More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers, and continually attracting new users.
Board Member
Jul 2013
Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.
Board Observer
May 2013
Organizations are overspending in the cloud to avoid performance risks. This wasted spend has financial and environment costs—and doesn’t solve for continuous performance. IBM Turbonomic performance and cost optimization helps clients get maximum business value for every dollar invested in public, private, hybrid and multicloud—without sacrificing application performance.
Board Member
Jan 2013
Kaminario offers a composable data platform that includes real-time analytics, data center automation, and data access efficiently using off-the-shelf hardware to get ultra-high performance at a lower cost. Headquartered outside of Boston, Kaminario works with a network of resellers and distributors globally.
Board Member
Jan 2013
The Silk Data Virtualization Platform gives demanding workloads 10x faster performance on the cloud compared to native cloud alone. It is a virtualization layer that sits between the underlying cloud infrastructure and customers’ workloads. Without refactoring, workloads such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and industry-specific applications can move onto Google Cloud and Azure while massively improving user experience. Industry leaders in e-commerce, SaaS, FinTech, and healthcare trust Silk with their mission-critical workloads to get the ultra-fast speeds their customers demand. Silk is headquartered outside of Boston, MA. To learn more, visit silk.us.
Board Member
Jul 2008
OpenSpan (www.openspan.com), now a part of Pegasystems (www.pega.com) is an industry pioneer in automation technologies that support transformation initiatives focused on driving revenue growth, customer lifetime value and operational efficiency. OpenSpan solutions are optimizing billions of transactions within contact center, back office and critical process business units in organizations throughout the world. OpenSpan technology enables companies to leverage an iterative approach to improving processes, automating work and creating efficiencies that minimize costs and boost profits. For more information, visit www.openspan.com.
Board Member
Jul 2004
Founded in 2001, Q1 Labs is a global provider of high-value, cost-effective, risk management, security information and event management (SIEM), user/application/network activity monitors and log management products. Q1 Labs was acquired by IBM in October 2011. The growing company provides a flexible, easy-to-use family of offerings - the QRadar Security Intelligence Platform - that allows customers to meet their individual security management and compliance requirements, both in physical and virtual environments. Q1 Labs is a US based company with headquarters located in Waltham, MA with sales and support offices throughout North America and Europe. The company also has research & development and customer support centers in Waltham, MA, Belfast, Northern Ireland and in Fredericton, New Brunswick. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Board Observer
Dec 2000
OpenPages is the leading provider of integrated risk management solutions for global companies. OpenPages' solutions empower a risk-based approach to identify and manage key business risks across the enterprise. This approach enables companies to focus on what's important and to avoid unexpected outcomes while improving performance. Founded in 1996, the company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with an international office in the United Kingdom, and regional offices throughout North America.
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2026
Partner
Apr 2026
Venture Guides is an early-stage infrastructure software investment firm with a unique team based approach that has resulted in over 80% of portfolio companies generating positive returns and 45% ultimately achieving unicorn status. The Venture Guides team has been recognized on the Forbes’ Midas List of the World’s Top Investors and the Inc5000 fastest growing private companies 6 times each. During this time, as operators and investors, the team has created and/or invested in such durable companies as dynaTrace, Docusign, LinkedIn, Rapid7, Solarwinds, Sysdig, Turbonomic, Archer Technologies, and many others. Venture Guides’ deep domain expertise, industry relationships and strategic introductions provide a significant advantage for founders building their companies. Venture Guides’ concentrated portfolio strategy ensures all entrepreneurs receive the right guidance at the right time to enhance and sustain their growth. https://www.ventureguides.com/guided-companies
2016
SVP of Strategic Partnerships
May 2016
Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.
2015
Board Member
Feb 2015
Perfecto enables exceptional digital experiences. We help you transform your business and strengthen every digital interaction with a quality–first approach to creating web and native apps, through a cloud–based test environment called the Continuous Quality Lab™. The CQ Lab is comprised of real devices and real end–user conditions, giving you the truest test environment available. More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers, and continually attracting new users.
Perfecto Mobile (acquired by Perforce)
Board Member
Feb 2015
2013
Board Member
Jul 2013
Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.
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