David T. ibnAle

Co-founder & Managing Partner of Advance Venture Partners

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025
VC🌍 United States
15
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Investor / Board Member
Apr 2025
Modern healthcare for your second act. Get the midlife care you deserve, the prescriptions you need, and the coverage youve worked hard for. Midi Health is the largest virtual clinic for women in midlife. Midi clinicians are expertly trained in treating symptoms of hormonal changes in all women, including those at high risk for cancer, or experiencing menopause symptoms due to surgery or cancer treatment. Personalized Care Plans are holistic and designed to meet every patient’s unique needs. Virtual visits are available in all 50 states and covered by insurance.
Investor / Board Member
May 2024
Telehealth addiction treatment on your terms and timeline - grounded in kindness, respect, and unconditional support. At Boulder Care, we help people with substance use disorders reach their goals through judgement-free recovery support and evidence-based addiction treatment, rooted in the principles of harm reduction. Patients can access their Care Team — a Clinician, a Care Advocate, and a Peer Recovery Specialist — through secure messaging, video visits, and phone support from an app on their phone. By championing low-threshold access to medications for addiction treatment, Boulder improves clinical and functional outcomes — sharing in the cost savings with health plan and employer partners under a value-based model. We are proud to offer millions of Americans access to Boulder as an affordable in-network provider and affordable self-pay options to those who need it.
Investor / Board Member
Mar 2023
AutoLeap is a cloud-based auto repair shop management software, committed to empowering auto shop owners to drive their businesses into the fast lane. Our platform is meticulously designed to modernize every facet of the auto repair shop experience, from workflow management to parts ordering, customer communication, and more. With a strong presence in the auto repair industry, AutoLeap is trusted by a growing community of over 1,000 shops across the United States and Canada. If youre interested in joining our dynamic team, explore career opportunities here: https://autoleap.com/careers/ To witness how AutoLeap can transform your shop and help it thrive, get a free demo at: https://tinyurl.com/yc88t3dk For the latest investment news and financial updates about AutoLeap, visit our Crunchbase profile: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autoleap.
Investor / Board Member
Dec 2021
Alto makes it easier for people to invest in private markets through self-directed retirement accounts. Alto removes the roadblocks from a historically complex process by providing the infrastructure to allow individuals and organizations to participate in private market investing through retirement accounts. By simplifying administration, reducing paperwork, and offering transparent, competitive pricing, Alto helps unlock retirement capital for investments that are less correlated to public markets and have the potential for differentiated returns. Today, Alto serves as the IRA custodian for nearly $2 billion in assets, supporting over 30,000 self-directed IRA investors, more than 2,500 issuers raising capital, and investment platforms throughout the private markets industry. With support for Traditional, Roth, and SEP IRAs, Alto provides a streamlined path to invest in private markets while maintaining the tax advantages of retirement accounts. At its core, Alto’s mission is to expand access to private markets and help shape the future of long-term investing.
Investor / Board Member
Aug 2020
Headspace is your lifelong guide to better mental health. We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mental health coaching in addition to mindfulness and mental health tools for everyday life, like guided meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement, and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with EAP and work-life services, as well as therapy and psychiatry services – all in a single destination. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive. To learn more, please visit headspace.com.
Investor / Board Member
Jul 2019
Morning Consult is a global decision intelligence company changing how modern leaders make smarter, faster, better decisions. The company pairs its proprietary high-frequency data with applied artificial intelligence to better inform decisions on what people think and how they will act. Stay ahead of the trends driving your industry with Morning Consult Pro: https://lnkd.in/ei2t53n9 Join our team: https://bit.ly/3w6kZ7X Our Culture: Ragan’s Top Places To Work 2023 Waters Technology’s Best Research Provider/Vendor 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018 Ad Age- Best Places to Work 2022 Inc. Best Workplaces 2022 & 2021 Inc. 5000 Americas Fastest-Growing Companies 2022 & 2021 Comparably Best Places to Work 2021, Best Company Perks & Benefits 2020, Best CEOs for Women 2018 Learn more at: www.morningconsult.com www. pro.morningconsult.com www.twitter.com/morningconsult www.facebook.com/morningconsult
Investor / Board Member
Dec 2018
Deals are won through relationships—but most CRMs werent built to track them. Affinity automates data entry, surfaces relationship insights, and gives teams the context they need to act on every opportunity. Over 3,000 organizations worldwide use Affinity, including leading private equity, venture capital, and investment banking firms. Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC, and MassMutual Ventures.
Investor / Board Member
Oct 2017
At UrbanSitter, its our mission to empower families and caregivers by reinventing the process of finding and booking trusted care. For businesses: UrbanSitter’s benefit provides your employees with easy access to reliable care, anytime they need it. Inclusive care options cover diverse employee needs including child care, backup care, pet sitters, senior care and virtual care. For parents: UrbanSitter is making it easier than ever for families to find, book and pay trusted child care, senior care, pet sitting, and household services. For caregivers: Looking for flexible, well-paid work? Top caregivers earn more than $1,000/month. Opportunities include part-time, full-time, and occasional nanny jobs, babysitting gigs, tutoring jobs, pet sitting and senior care jobs.
Investor / Board Member
Jul 2017
Entrust fights fraud and cyber threats with identity-centric security that protects people, devices, and data. Our comprehensive solutions help organizations secure every step of the identity lifecycle, from verifying identity at onboarding to securing connections and fighting fraud in everyday transactions. Ongoing monitoring supports compliance and safeguards keys, secrets, and certificates. With a foundation of identity-centric security, our customers can transact and grow with confidence. Entrust has a global partner network and supports customers in over 150 countries. Learn more at entrust.com
Investor / Board Member
Aug 2016
At Curology, we understand that accessibility to clear skin can transform lives. That’s why we provide personalized prescription medications, custom-formulated to address each patients unique skin concerns, conveniently delivered right to their doorstep. Our expertise in acne and anti-aging solutions enables us to offer highly effective and affordable care tailored to our patients specific needs. We are driven by a mission to inspire confidence that goes deeper than skin. Our dedicated team of dermatology providers is committed to making professional acne care accessible to millions of individuals. We facilitate 1:1 interactions with real dermatology providers, fostering a supportive environment where patients can evolve alongside their skincare journeys. In addition to our prescription services, we offer an extensive portfolio of dermatologist-designed, developed, and tested cosmetic and over-the-counter (OTC) products. This comprehensive range ensures our patients have access to holistic skincare solutions that cater to their individual requirements. Together, we celebrate milestones and uplift one another on our skincare journeys. Join us in our mission to transform skin health and enhance lives, one patient at a time. Check out our careers page here - https://apply.workable.com/curology/
Investor / Board Member
Aug 2016
Whip Media is the leading SaaS company powering the global media and entertainment industry. Our AI-native platform, Helix, delivers data and actionable intelligence that power the content supply chain, improve operational efficiency, and enable profitable decision-making at scale. It’s transforming how the business of content gets done.
Investor / Board Member
Jun 2015
Nativo empowers brands and publishers with the most advanced platform for premium ad experiences—built to connect advertisers more effectively and help publishers grow. Nativo’s innovative technology delivers better advertising through better technology, enabling advertisers to engage audiences with premium, relevant content, while helping publishers unlock new revenue streams through non-disruptive, high-quality ad experiences. For more information, visit www.nativo.com .
Investor / Board Member
Jan 2015
Gigya is now the SAP Customer Data Cloud, part of the SAP C/4HANA Suite of Customer Experience (CX) solutions. SAP Customer Data Cloud provides the foundation for building trusted customer relationships. Our solutions can help your business securely identify and engage consumers across devices and channels; build trust with customers through increased transparency and control of their profile, preference and consent data, and; transform data into unified, permission-based customer profiles that are governed, orchestrated and analyzed from a central and secure environment. We help our clients drive trusted, personalized digital experiences with a start fast – stay fast Cloud implementation that saves development and maintenance resources.
Investor / Board Member
Jan 2015
Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara & Montecito, San Diego, Seattle & Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin & Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. Learn more and find your place at www.compass.com and www.compass.com/careers. Compass only reaches out to applicants from a @compass.com domain and does not prompt applicants to download software or files as part of its application process.
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2025
Investor / Board Member
Apr 2025
Modern healthcare for your second act. Get the midlife care you deserve, the prescriptions you need, and the coverage youve worked hard for. Midi Health is the largest virtual clinic for women in midlife. Midi clinicians are expertly trained in treating symptoms of hormonal changes in all women, including those at high risk for cancer, or experiencing menopause symptoms due to surgery or cancer treatment. Personalized Care Plans are holistic and designed to meet every patient’s unique needs. Virtual visits are available in all 50 states and covered by insurance.
2024
Investor / Board Member
May 2024
Telehealth addiction treatment on your terms and timeline - grounded in kindness, respect, and unconditional support. At Boulder Care, we help people with substance use disorders reach their goals through judgement-free recovery support and evidence-based addiction treatment, rooted in the principles of harm reduction. Patients can access their Care Team — a Clinician, a Care Advocate, and a Peer Recovery Specialist — through secure messaging, video visits, and phone support from an app on their phone. By championing low-threshold access to medications for addiction treatment, Boulder improves clinical and functional outcomes — sharing in the cost savings with health plan and employer partners under a value-based model. We are proud to offer millions of Americans access to Boulder as an affordable in-network provider and affordable self-pay options to those who need it.
2023
Investor / Board Member
Mar 2023
AutoLeap is a cloud-based auto repair shop management software, committed to empowering auto shop owners to drive their businesses into the fast lane. Our platform is meticulously designed to modernize every facet of the auto repair shop experience, from workflow management to parts ordering, customer communication, and more. With a strong presence in the auto repair industry, AutoLeap is trusted by a growing community of over 1,000 shops across the United States and Canada. If youre interested in joining our dynamic team, explore career opportunities here: https://autoleap.com/careers/ To witness how AutoLeap can transform your shop and help it thrive, get a free demo at: https://tinyurl.com/yc88t3dk For the latest investment news and financial updates about AutoLeap, visit our Crunchbase profile: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autoleap.
2021
Investor / Board Member
Dec 2021
Alto makes it easier for people to invest in private markets through self-directed retirement accounts. Alto removes the roadblocks from a historically complex process by providing the infrastructure to allow individuals and organizations to participate in private market investing through retirement accounts. By simplifying administration, reducing paperwork, and offering transparent, competitive pricing, Alto helps unlock retirement capital for investments that are less correlated to public markets and have the potential for differentiated returns. Today, Alto serves as the IRA custodian for nearly $2 billion in assets, supporting over 30,000 self-directed IRA investors, more than 2,500 issuers raising capital, and investment platforms throughout the private markets industry. With support for Traditional, Roth, and SEP IRAs, Alto provides a streamlined path to invest in private markets while maintaining the tax advantages of retirement accounts. At its core, Alto’s mission is to expand access to private markets and help shape the future of long-term investing.
Advisor
Jun 2021
Founded in 2015, SWAT Equity Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth consumer brands that are disrupting their categories with a differentiated product or service. We believe strong brands and communities are as important to success as operational and financial performance. And, we leverage our partners’ 80+ combined years of expertise in marketing, traditional private equity, and entrepreneurship to identify and support our portfolio, which we believe paves the way to prudently accelerated growth.
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