David Spreng

Founder & CEO at Runway Growth Capital | Author of All Money is Not Created Equal

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 28 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2013𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
16
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Board Member
Jun 2013
Chapter 24 Vineyards is a wine and spirits company based out of 602 E 1st St, Newberg, Oregon, United States.
Board Member
Mar 2011
Were an SEC-registered investment advisor managing a range of strategies that invest in the fastest growing, most powerful businesses in the world. GSV stands for Global Silicon Valley, and GSV embodies this powerful ideology. We aim to redefine growth investing, just as “the Valley” has transformed the world of business. Our stock selection and portfolio management is led by Michael Moe — "one of the best stock pickers in the country" (Business Week).
Board Member
May 2010
TinyMCE is the world’s most trusted WYSIWYG component that enables rich text editing capabilities within an application. Scalable, adaptable and reusable, it powers 100M+ projects worldwide and more than 1.5M+ developers use it to add velocity to their tech stacks, so they can build and ship their projects faster. Globally, there’s tens of thousands of market-leading applications powered by TinyMCE. It’s helped SaaS companies, large enterprises, content creators and publishers to launch, grow and scale their businesses, reduce their development and technical debt burdens, minimize ongoing support tickets and boost the productivity of their users. Out-of-the-box: select the features you want from the plugin list (free or Premium), and add them to the Core open source editor. Then assemble the components – either through APIs or coding – customize parts (if you desire) and draw on the decades-long experience of its builders in rich text editing. The editor and its 50+ feature plugins integrate with 12+ frameworks and there’s full access to the underlying code. Use case specific starter configs and demos making it easier to get started – from CMS and email builders, through DMS, LMS and CRM to Workflow systems – along with detailed documentation and support. Companies like Atlassian, IBM, Zendesk, Hubspot, Salesforce, Constant Contact and Blackboard rely on TinyMCE to help their users create rich content, documents and messages within their software and platforms.
Board Member
2005
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Board Member
2004
Gale Technologies, now a part of Dell, is a leading pioneer of infrastructure automation software that allows organizations to streamline the deployment of on-premise and hybrid clouds for self-service access to infrastructure. With the Gale acquisition, Dell has taken significant steps to expand its enterprise solutions portfolio to help IT organizations respond rapidly to business demands, improve efficiency and strengthen IT services quality with management solutions for converged infrastructure. To learn more about the Active Infrastructure family Gale is complementing, go to Dell.com/galetechnologies. Follow the Dell LinkedIn page for future updates in this area.
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2004
Venture capitalists are committed to funding America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, working closely with them to transform breakthrough ideas into emerging growth companies that drive U.S. job creation and economic growth. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital community, the National Venture Capital Association empowers its members and the entrepreneurs they fund by advocating for policies that encourage innovation and reward long-term investment. The NVCA also serves as the definitive resource for venture capital data and unites its members through a full range of professional services.
Board Member
2003
About eSilicon eSilicon provides complex FinFET ASICs, market-specific IP platforms and advanced 2.5D packaging solutions. Our ASIC-proven, differentiating IP includes highly configurable 7nm 56G/112G SerDes plus networking-optimized 16/14/7nm FinFET IP platforms featuring HBM2 PHY, TCAM, specialized memory compilers and I/O libraries. Our neuASIC™ platform provides AI-specific IP and a modular design methodology to create adaptable, highly efficient AI ASICs. eSilicon serves the high-bandwidth networking, high-performance computing, AI and 5G infrastructure markets
Board Member
2003
Envivio makes the world's video content universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any network, at any time. Our advanced software-based solutions, available on Intel-based appliances or IT blade servers, perform IP-based video encoding/transcoding, processing, packaging, ad insertion and delivery for broadcast TV, HTTP streaming and mobile video services. Envivio products are used by more than 300 of the world's leading telecom, cable and satellite service providers, content owners, terrestrial broadcasters and mobile service operators to deliver high quality video streams to TVs, mobile phones, tablets, gaming systems and PCs serving tens of millions of viewers. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has offices worldwide including France, China, Singapore and Japan. Envivio is now part of Ericsson. Together, we become the market number one in media processing software and hardware solutions.’
Board Member
2001
CallidusCloud is now SAP Sales Cloud, part of the SAP Customer Experience division of SAP. We help sales teams sell faster and perform better, using AI-driven software that transforms your company’s lead-to-cash process. Our full suite of sales process tools includes sales automation, incentive management, Configure Price, Quote (CPQ), coaching and sales enablement.
Board Member
2000
Experience · 21 entries
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Investments (16)
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2015
CEO, CIO & Founder
Aug 2015
Runway Growth Capital is an experienced, reliable source of debt financing for dynamic, late-stage growth companies.
Founder, CEO & CIO
Aug 2015
Runway Growth Capital is an experienced, reliable source of debt financing for dynamic, late-stage growth companies.
2013
Board Member
Jun 2013
Chapter 24 Vineyards is a wine and spirits company based out of 602 E 1st St, Newberg, Oregon, United States.
2012
Managing Director
Jan 2012
Decathlon Capital Partners specializes in providing revenue-based funding solutions to businesses seeking a smarter, lower-cost alternative to traditional equity financing approaches. By offering companies a dramatically better solution to their funding needs, Decathlon’s revenue-based financing provides businesses with access to flexible, long-term capital without any dilution, extra operational overhead or loss of control. Decathlon is focused on providing highly customized revenue-based funding solutions to established companies across a wide range of industry segments and U.S. geographies. As a leading provider of equity-replacement funding, the Decathlon team has worked with hundreds of growth-focused businesses during the last decade to help them create and realize value. To learn more about how Decathlon can help your company achieve its objectives with flexible revenue-based financing, visit www.decathloncapital.com.
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1998–2013 · 16 investments
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