David Beisel

Co-Founder & Partner at NextView Ventures

🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Seed Investor
Oct 2024
The shift is already here: millions of people are getting brand recommendations from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini instead of search engines. The question isnt whether this matters — its whether youre winning those conversations or losing them. Evertune is the marketing platform that delivers complete AI search visibility, showing you exactly where your brand stands when people discover you through AI — and how to show up stronger. Were not just another analytics dashboard. Were your strategic partner for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and AI SEO in the economy thats reshaping everything. Why Leading Enterprise Marketers Choose Evertune: Brand Monitoring That Matters: We analyze over one million AI responses about your brand monthly, giving you the statistical confidence to actually bet your strategy on the data. Think election polling, not focus groups. Actionable Content Strategy, Not Just Scorecards: We dont just show you where you stand. We decode exactly what gets brands mentioned more often and ranked higher, then hand you the specific messaging and distribution moves to climb the AI recommendation leaderboard. Purpose-Built for AI, Not Retrofitted: While competitors force old search tools into new problems, we built from scratch for how AI actually thinks. Youre not just getting insights — youre getting the precise playbook to improve your performance as this new channel matures. Strategic Partnership: Youre not just buying software — youre getting partners who understand this territory. We provide ongoing training and guidance to turn AI visibility data into actual competitive advantage. Proven Leadership: Our founders helped build The Trade Desk, pioneering data-driven digital advertising. Weve shepherded an entire industry through transformation before, and we know exactly how to navigate the chaos when everything shifts overnight. The future belongs to brands that master AI-mediated discovery.
Seed Investor
May 2019
Hatch is the only customer communication platform designed for bottom-line growth. With your outreach and follow-up on autopilot, plus custom AI agents that text with your leads and customers, you can turn more leads into appointments, sales, and repeat customers without the overhead costs. Satisfy customers, alleviate employee burdens, and scale your revenue with Hatch. Combine text, email, and voicemail to enhance your speed-to-lead, sales follow-up, and customer experiences. Visit our website to learn more and start improving your ROI today.
Seed Investor
2018
The social network that helps people to get off their 🍑s and have fun in the real world.
Seed Investor
2017
We empower people to connect to their work, games, and friends from anywhere on any device. Our customers access their powerful PCs and VMs through our ultra-low latency interactive streaming technology. Artists, game developers, playtesters, animators, architects, and engineers take precise control over a 60FPS+, 4K stream of their workstations with less than one frame of latency. Parsec also connects millions of people to games on the go, and lets them play with friends & family for free by just sharing a link. Parsec is a remote first company, with team members distributed across the U.S. Now a part of Unity Technologies.
Seed Investor
2017
Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for leading brands, designed to optimize message performance through 1:1 SMS and email interactions. Infusing intelligence at every stage of the consumers purchasing journey, Attentive empowers businesses to achieve hyper-personalized communication with their customers on a large scale. Leveraging AI-powered tools, a mobile-first approach, two-way conversations, and enterprise-grade technology, Attentive drives billions in online revenue for brands around the globe. Trusted by over 8,000 leading brands such as CB2, Urban Outfitters, GUESS, and Dickey’s Barbeque Pit, Attentive is the go-to solution for delivering powerful commerce experiences for consumers with the brands they love. To learn more about Attentive or to request a demo, visit www.attentive.com
Seed Investor
2015
MealPal is changing the way lunch works. Consumers get lunch from some of the best restaurants in their city. With over 1000 restaurants to choose from, getting a delicious and affordable lunch has never been easier! Restaurants in the MealPal network reach new customers while increasing revenue during peak lunch hours. Each restaurant in the MealPal network offers one lunch option per day, enabling them to efficiently grow their lunch time operations. The MealPal team is creative, hard-working, and fun... oh, and we really like lunch! Check out the opportunities -- were excited to chat with you about joining the team.
Seed Investor
2014
Code Climate is the company behind Velocity, a Software Engineering Intelligence platform that maximizes engineering impact with trusted insights for leaders and teams at all levels — from capacity and delivery to quality, culture, and costs. Code Climate was founded in 2011 by engineering leaders who were frustrated by the lack of visibility into data that would enable them to make informed improvements. Today, we provide thousands of engineering leaders with the tools to make data-driven decisions through a flexible, scalable, and secure platform. Velocity provides visibility into the engineering team’s health, investment of resources, operational efficiency, and progress towards key goals. Backed by leading VC firms, including PSG, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and NextView Ventures, Code Climate has raised $66M in funding to date, having closed a Series C round in August 2021. Code Climate is honored to have been named one of Built In’s Best Places to Work in 2022 and 2023.
Seed Investor
2013
We believe that discovering, buying, marketing, and selling books online should always be an easy, joyful experience. We lean into two key concepts – expert curation and unmatched value – to build innovative products and tools that get the right books into the right hands. Our teams at BookBub and Chirp have helped the publishing industry drive hundreds of millions of dollars in ebook and audiobook sales worldwide – and every day, millions of readers turn to us for help finding books they’ll love. Learn more at bookbub.com and chirpbooks.com.
Seed Investor
2012
TapCommerce is now part of Twitter! Learn more about how to drive app installs and re-engagement with mobile app promotion from @TwitterAds: https://business.twitter.com/en/advertising/campaign-types/promote-an-app.html
Seed Investor
2012
Were TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the worlds leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance. As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com.
Seed Investor
2010
ThredUp is transforming resale with technology and a mission to inspire the world to think secondhand first. By making it easy to buy and sell secondhand, ThredUp has become one of the worlds largest online resale platforms for apparel, shoes and accessories. Sellers love ThredUp because we make it easy to clean out their closets and unlock value for themselves or for the charity of their choice while doing good for the planet. Buyers love shopping value, premium and luxury brands all in one place, at up to 90% off estimated retail price. Our proprietary operating platform is the foundation for our managed marketplace and consists of distributed processing infrastructure, proprietary software and systems and data science expertise. With ThredUp’s Resale-as-a-Service, some of the worlds leading brands and retailers are leveraging our platform to deliver customizable, scalable resale experiences to their customers. ThredUp has processed over 172 million unique secondhand items from 55,000 brands across 100 categories. By extending the life cycle of clothing, ThredUp is changing the way consumers shop and ushering in a more sustainable future for the fashion industry.
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2024
Seed Investor
Oct 2024
The shift is already here: millions of people are getting brand recommendations from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini instead of search engines. The question isnt whether this matters — its whether youre winning those conversations or losing them. Evertune is the marketing platform that delivers complete AI search visibility, showing you exactly where your brand stands when people discover you through AI — and how to show up stronger. Were not just another analytics dashboard. Were your strategic partner for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and AI SEO in the economy thats reshaping everything. Why Leading Enterprise Marketers Choose Evertune: Brand Monitoring That Matters: We analyze over one million AI responses about your brand monthly, giving you the statistical confidence to actually bet your strategy on the data. Think election polling, not focus groups. Actionable Content Strategy, Not Just Scorecards: We dont just show you where you stand. We decode exactly what gets brands mentioned more often and ranked higher, then hand you the specific messaging and distribution moves to climb the AI recommendation leaderboard. Purpose-Built for AI, Not Retrofitted: While competitors force old search tools into new problems, we built from scratch for how AI actually thinks. Youre not just getting insights — youre getting the precise playbook to improve your performance as this new channel matures. Strategic Partnership: Youre not just buying software — youre getting partners who understand this territory. We provide ongoing training and guidance to turn AI visibility data into actual competitive advantage. Proven Leadership: Our founders helped build The Trade Desk, pioneering data-driven digital advertising. Weve shepherded an entire industry through transformation before, and we know exactly how to navigate the chaos when everything shifts overnight. The future belongs to brands that master AI-mediated discovery.
2023
Investment Committee Chair, Advisor, and Limited Partner
May 2023
Critical Venture Partners is an inception stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional students tackling major crises.
2019
Seed Investor
May 2019
Hatch is the only customer communication platform designed for bottom-line growth. With your outreach and follow-up on autopilot, plus custom AI agents that text with your leads and customers, you can turn more leads into appointments, sales, and repeat customers without the overhead costs. Satisfy customers, alleviate employee burdens, and scale your revenue with Hatch. Combine text, email, and voicemail to enhance your speed-to-lead, sales follow-up, and customer experiences. Visit our website to learn more and start improving your ROI today.
2018
Seed Investor
2018
The social network that helps people to get off their 🍑s and have fun in the real world.
2017
Seed Investor
2017
We empower people to connect to their work, games, and friends from anywhere on any device. Our customers access their powerful PCs and VMs through our ultra-low latency interactive streaming technology. Artists, game developers, playtesters, animators, architects, and engineers take precise control over a 60FPS+, 4K stream of their workstations with less than one frame of latency. Parsec also connects millions of people to games on the go, and lets them play with friends & family for free by just sharing a link. Parsec is a remote first company, with team members distributed across the U.S. Now a part of Unity Technologies.
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