David Garcia

CEO, Board Member, Advisor

📍 Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021
VC🌍 United States
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1
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Oct 2021
Supplier.io powers the most successful supplier diversity programs! We provide solutions that help supplier diversity managers and chief procurement officers implement effective programs that grow diversity spend, improve supply chain competitiveness, and increase brand value. 50% of the Fortune 100 use our solutions along with 50% of the Billion Dollar Round table. Our data, software and experts provide: - Data Enrichment to evaluate your current diverse spend - Supplier Explorer to easily find new diverse suppliers - Spend Reporting to analyze your spend data for opportunities - Tier 2 portal and program management - Economic Impact Assessment to quantify the impact programs have on communities they serve
Board Member
May 2019
YipitData is the market-leading data and analytics firm. We analyze billions of data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights across industries, including consumer brands, technology, software, and healthcare. Our insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze the data that many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. We raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B, further accelerating our growth and market impact. We have been recognized multiple times as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces. As a fast-growing company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners, YipitData is driven by a people-first culture rooted in mastery, ownership, and transparency.  With offices in New York, Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, Seattle, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Singapore, we continue to expand our reach and impact across global markets. YipitData is hiring. Come join the future of data-driven market research: yipitdata.com/careers
Board Member
Mar 2017
Avetta is building the connections that build the world. Avetta provides a cloud-based supply chain risk management and commercial marketplace platform. Our global solution is uniquely designed to connect the world’s leading organizations with qualified suppliers, driving sustainable growth. We build trustworthy bonds through responsive technology and human insight. Our process is collaborative. Our global reach is complemented by our local expertise. Hundreds of global organizations depend on Avetta to align their supply chains to sustainable business practices, worldwide. Discover more at avetta.com.
Board Member
Oct 2016
Verisk Marketing Solutions (formerly Jornaya, Infutor and Contact State) helps marketers create exceptional experiences for their consumers by targeting the right person, with the right message, at the right time. Our solutions are designed to help maintain a real-time view of customers and prospects as those consumer profiles and behaviors are continuously changing. We do this with the highest standards for data security and respect for the consumer’s privacy. As the consumer insights and data business unit of Verisk, VMS specializes in the critical, ongoing expense categories that every adult consumer in the United States manages day in and day out: Insurance and Loans. And we have tremendous depth, distinctive attributes, and behavioral signals for: ● Auto, Home, Life & Health Insurance ● Home Lending ● Real Estate & Home Services ● Automotive ● Higher Education Marketers and customers who engage with us experience: ● Lead generation program ROI improvement ● Better customer acquisition & retention outcomes ● Real-time insights (from 55k comparison shopping sites) ● Intelligence on cross-sell opportunities ● Improved reputation and financial risk management Having operated for the last 20 years as an OEM to other consumer insights and data providers, we have deep expertise partnering and empowering the technology platforms that brands and end users are invested in to manage, own, operate and protect consumer data.
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2021
Board Member
Oct 2021
Supplier.io powers the most successful supplier diversity programs! We provide solutions that help supplier diversity managers and chief procurement officers implement effective programs that grow diversity spend, improve supply chain competitiveness, and increase brand value. 50% of the Fortune 100 use our solutions along with 50% of the Billion Dollar Round table. Our data, software and experts provide: - Data Enrichment to evaluate your current diverse spend - Supplier Explorer to easily find new diverse suppliers - Spend Reporting to analyze your spend data for opportunities - Tier 2 portal and program management - Economic Impact Assessment to quantify the impact programs have on communities they serve
2019
Board Member
May 2019
YipitData is the market-leading data and analytics firm. We analyze billions of data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights across industries, including consumer brands, technology, software, and healthcare. Our insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze the data that many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. We raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B, further accelerating our growth and market impact. We have been recognized multiple times as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces. As a fast-growing company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners, YipitData is driven by a people-first culture rooted in mastery, ownership, and transparency.  With offices in New York, Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, Seattle, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Singapore, we continue to expand our reach and impact across global markets. YipitData is hiring. Come join the future of data-driven market research: yipitdata.com/careers
2017
Board Member
Mar 2017
Avetta is building the connections that build the world. Avetta provides a cloud-based supply chain risk management and commercial marketplace platform. Our global solution is uniquely designed to connect the world’s leading organizations with qualified suppliers, driving sustainable growth. We build trustworthy bonds through responsive technology and human insight. Our process is collaborative. Our global reach is complemented by our local expertise. Hundreds of global organizations depend on Avetta to align their supply chains to sustainable business practices, worldwide. Discover more at avetta.com.
Senior Advisor
Feb 2017
Norwest is a leading venture and growth equity investment firm that works side-by-side with the world’s top entrepreneurs, empowering them throughout their personal journey of professional growth. Managing more than $15.5 billion in capital, we have invested in over 700 early-to-late-stage companies, with more than 250 currently active. Focused primarily on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare, we provide businesses with the specialized resources, expertise, guidance, and connections to achieve their vision. Norwest has offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, with subsidiaries in India and Israel. To learn more, visit norwest.com.
2016
Board Member
Oct 2016
Verisk Marketing Solutions (formerly Jornaya, Infutor and Contact State) helps marketers create exceptional experiences for their consumers by targeting the right person, with the right message, at the right time. Our solutions are designed to help maintain a real-time view of customers and prospects as those consumer profiles and behaviors are continuously changing. We do this with the highest standards for data security and respect for the consumer’s privacy. As the consumer insights and data business unit of Verisk, VMS specializes in the critical, ongoing expense categories that every adult consumer in the United States manages day in and day out: Insurance and Loans. And we have tremendous depth, distinctive attributes, and behavioral signals for: ● Auto, Home, Life & Health Insurance ● Home Lending ● Real Estate & Home Services ● Automotive ● Higher Education Marketers and customers who engage with us experience: ● Lead generation program ROI improvement ● Better customer acquisition & retention outcomes ● Real-time insights (from 55k comparison shopping sites) ● Intelligence on cross-sell opportunities ● Improved reputation and financial risk management Having operated for the last 20 years as an OEM to other consumer insights and data providers, we have deep expertise partnering and empowering the technology platforms that brands and end users are invested in to manage, own, operate and protect consumer data.
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