David Wieland

Founder and Managing Partner at Motivate VC | Top Venture Capital Voice

📍 DuPage County, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
6
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2
Early stage
2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
14y
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Board Member
Sep 2021
Valiot is an AI and software company that transforms the way manufacturers work, providing technological solutions to drastically optimize the production process and the complete value chain. Valiot easily connects to any data source, admin system or shop-floor technology to create an amazing digital experience, empowering companies to achieve a truly connected and smart operation.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
At Path, we are your trusted partner in navigating the dynamic world of digital assets. As a registered investment adviser, we specialize in providing exposure to the rapidly growing digital asset class. Our mission is to empower individuals and institutions with professional and compliant crypto investments. What sets us apart is our commitment to comprehensive portfolio management, ensuring risk-adjusted strategies that align with your investment objectives. With decades of combined experience managing traditional assets at prestigious institutions, our investment team brings expertise to the world of digital assets. At Path, we believe in proactive risk management, utilizing qualified custody solutions, and employing active management for balanced returns in a market with historically outsized potential. Our dedication to transparency and compliance ensures that your digital asset journey is both secure and compliant. Join us on the path to secure and rewarding crypto investments. Partner with Path and unlock the full potential of digital assets for your portfolio.
Board Member
Sep 2020
Fulcrum is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ERP, MRP, and MES platform allowing small and mid-sized manufacturers to improve efficiency through workflow optimization and automated data collection. Fulcrum delivers value through a fully digital, paperless workflow leveraging machine learning, automation, predictive analytics, and advanced heuristics to drive throughput and profitability. Software doesnt have to be complicated. The software you use in your personal life (Facebook, Uber, Amazon, etc.) is intuitive and you dont need training to understand how it works. Why should your business software be any different? Were helping manufacturers transition to cutting edge, future-proof software that lowers the stress of everyday operations, gets more out of good employees that are difficult to hire, automates tedious tasks, and operates more efficiently than competitors.
(Acquired) Founder, Founding Investor, Board Member
Mar 2019
RIVS Interviewing Technologies slashes the time to hire while improving quality by bringing a human element to the forefront of hiring. Our innovative digital interviewing platform enhances the recruitment and hiring process by improving the time required to qualify and screen candidates. By creating a customizable online, on-demand interviewing environment using a combination of video and voice tools, RIVS helps companies replace outdated hiring methods that cause recruiter and candidate frustration. Our patented one-way video and voice interviews help provide insights into verbal and visual communication skills. Candidates answer pre-recorded questions on their own time, and employers can review the responses when convenient. In addition to the asynchronous feature, our live voice and video interview technology allows one or several people to live interview a candidate anywhere in the world, requiring no software to be downloaded. RIVS helps create efficiencies that expedite the hiring process by eliminating time constraints associated with scheduling and sequential interviews (versus simultaneous interviews) - the ease and convenience of the system ensures that scheduling is no longer an issue! Imagine convenience. Imagine engaged candidates. Imagine less paperwork. Isn’t it time you imagined the future of talent acquisition with RIVS Digital Interviews?
Founding Investor
Oct 2018
Are looking to gain a better understanding of how experienced software buyers perceive your sales process, messaging, product or pricing? SaaS Research can help. We have a large group of advisors who have one thing in common: they purchase software products. Our advisors are interested in engaging in a sales discussion followed by providing detailed feedback on your offering. You may even pick up a few customers throughout the process. If you are interested in receiving more details as to how we can directly impact to your organization, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us directly at ks@saasresearch.com or 773-536-9512. Thank you, The SaaS Research Team
early stageMarket Research
(Acquired) Founder, Founding Investor, Board Member
Jan 2012
RIVS Interviewing Technologies slashes the time to hire while improving quality by bringing a human element to the forefront of hiring. Our innovative digital interviewing platform enhances the recruitment and hiring process by improving the time required to qualify and screen candidates. By creating a customizable online, on-demand interviewing environment using a combination of video and voice tools, RIVS helps companies replace outdated hiring methods that cause recruiter and candidate frustration. Our patented one-way video and voice interviews help provide insights into verbal and visual communication skills. Candidates answer pre-recorded questions on their own time, and employers can review the responses when convenient. In addition to the asynchronous feature, our live voice and video interview technology allows one or several people to live interview a candidate anywhere in the world, requiring no software to be downloaded. RIVS helps create efficiencies that expedite the hiring process by eliminating time constraints associated with scheduling and sequential interviews (versus simultaneous interviews) - the ease and convenience of the system ensures that scheduling is no longer an issue! Imagine convenience. Imagine engaged candidates. Imagine less paperwork. Isn’t it time you imagined the future of talent acquisition with RIVS Digital Interviews?
Experience · 16 entries
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2022
Chairman and Primary Owner
Mar 2022
Interviewing.com provides tools to job seekers to help them practice interviewing and improve skills needed to help them present the best versions of themselves in order to find the best fit with employers.
2021
Board Member
Sep 2021
Valiot is an AI and software company that transforms the way manufacturers work, providing technological solutions to drastically optimize the production process and the complete value chain. Valiot easily connects to any data source, admin system or shop-floor technology to create an amazing digital experience, empowering companies to achieve a truly connected and smart operation.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
At Path, we are your trusted partner in navigating the dynamic world of digital assets. As a registered investment adviser, we specialize in providing exposure to the rapidly growing digital asset class. Our mission is to empower individuals and institutions with professional and compliant crypto investments. What sets us apart is our commitment to comprehensive portfolio management, ensuring risk-adjusted strategies that align with your investment objectives. With decades of combined experience managing traditional assets at prestigious institutions, our investment team brings expertise to the world of digital assets. At Path, we believe in proactive risk management, utilizing qualified custody solutions, and employing active management for balanced returns in a market with historically outsized potential. Our dedication to transparency and compliance ensures that your digital asset journey is both secure and compliant. Join us on the path to secure and rewarding crypto investments. Partner with Path and unlock the full potential of digital assets for your portfolio.
2020
Board Member
Sep 2020
Fulcrum is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ERP, MRP, and MES platform allowing small and mid-sized manufacturers to improve efficiency through workflow optimization and automated data collection. Fulcrum delivers value through a fully digital, paperless workflow leveraging machine learning, automation, predictive analytics, and advanced heuristics to drive throughput and profitability. Software doesnt have to be complicated. The software you use in your personal life (Facebook, Uber, Amazon, etc.) is intuitive and you dont need training to understand how it works. Why should your business software be any different? Were helping manufacturers transition to cutting edge, future-proof software that lowers the stress of everyday operations, gets more out of good employees that are difficult to hire, automates tedious tasks, and operates more efficiently than competitors.
2019
Founder and Managing Partner
May 2019
Motivate Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups. Target first check size is $500k-$2mm and ours is typically the first professional capital in a business. We target 15%+ ownership and 10x+ returns on each of our investments. Warm email intros from other professional investors are best or entrepreneurs can reach out and tell us more about their startup and its funding needs here: www.motivate.vc/funding We haven’t mastered any of the social media platforms messaging systems yet so heads up that we dont usually check those messages.
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