David Willox

Strategic Advisor / Cyber Security / National Security / Innovation / Broadcast Media / Journalism

📍 Dallas, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 28 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2024
Angel investor🌍 United States
8
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2
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1
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1
Late stage
28y
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Portfolio

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Advisor / Investor
May 2018
Modernizing Cancer Treatments For Pets
Partner, Investor, Mentor
Nov 2017
Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas, the number one startup state in the U.S. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2010.
Advisor / Investor
Jul 2016
With a focus on cutting-edge cryptography and user-centric design, SENTRIQS empowers organizations to protect their most sensitive information into the quantum age.
Investor
Jul 2016
Mercury Workspace allows users to host fully end-to-end encrypted HD video conferences, make secured VOIP calls, send secured messages, and securely share files of unlimited size seamlessly, all within a single application interface in confidence with confidence, every time using messaging layer security (MLS) and post quantum encryption (PQE). Secured Communications views its clients as partners and offers first class personalized support in addition to providing customization services and integrations to help them manage their most sensitive communications and stay in control of vital information. For more information visit: securedcommunications.com.
Adisor / Investor
Oct 2015
ClearForce is a people risk technology company that builds safe and secure organizations. Resolve™ provides security and risk leaders with a centralized platform to identify, manage, and resolve potential threats before they become a problem. ClearForce unifies data, analytics, machine learning, workflow, and compliance in a secure environment for all stakeholders. Our continuous evaluation solutions power critical programs for insider threat, workplace safety, cyber security, Safety Act, trusted workforce, and suicide prevention.
Investigative Producer, Dateline NBC / Today Show
1998
A leading source of global news and information for more than 75 years. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in New York Citys Rockefeller Center, with bureaus and staff in the U.S. and around the world.
Investigative Producer
1998
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2024
Advisor / Investor
Aug 2024
The capabilities of recent AI models are truly astounding and transformative. Everyone who wants a piece of this AI pie is in for another equally astounding fact: the cost of AI. Even if you want to just put together a single server with consumer grade GPUs, you are looking at over 100K in US Dollars. Plus, you need to call your utility to upgrade your power supply lines to 240 volts or higher. The cost of cloud GPUs are even worse. If you want a decent (not top of the line), dedicated GPU server, you are looking at 50K to 100K in US Dollars per month. Yet you feel you can’t lag behind the others in your market segment and you are not alone. The projected cumulative effect of all the demands for AI, at the national scale, in the foreseeable future is staggering and unprecedented. Over the past few years companies and researchers have brought to the market many innovations in hardware and AI algorithm designs to bring down the power requirements of AI. Innovations such as data and model sharding, tensor parallelism, lower precision arithmetic, etc., enable the training of much larger models than otherwise possible on a given set of GPUs. Model-specific techniques such as flash attention bring additional boost in performance. However, all these gains are constrained by an empirical scaling law which says larger models learn better than smaller models. That is where EKS technologies become relevant to bring down your total cost of compute. We offer flexible and favorable PoC options, including money-back guarantees. Contact us right away!
2018
Advisor / Investor
May 2018
Modernizing Cancer Treatments For Pets
2017
Partner, Investor, Mentor
Nov 2017
Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas, the number one startup state in the U.S. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2010.
2016
Advisor / Investor
Jul 2016
With a focus on cutting-edge cryptography and user-centric design, SENTRIQS empowers organizations to protect their most sensitive information into the quantum age.
Investor
Jul 2016
Mercury Workspace allows users to host fully end-to-end encrypted HD video conferences, make secured VOIP calls, send secured messages, and securely share files of unlimited size seamlessly, all within a single application interface in confidence with confidence, every time using messaging layer security (MLS) and post quantum encryption (PQE). Secured Communications views its clients as partners and offers first class personalized support in addition to providing customization services and integrations to help them manage their most sensitive communications and stay in control of vital information. For more information visit: securedcommunications.com.
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