A Conversation with David Frankel

Monday, February 3
6:00 PM

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David is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Founder Collective, a seed-stage VC fund based in Boston and New York. David is the lead investor for Founder Collective in companies such as Suno, Coupang, SeatGeek and PillPack (sold to Amazon for ~$1B). He previously provided the first term sheet or significant initial capital for companies such as Olo (NYSE: OLO), OPower (NYSE: OPWR), and Volaris (NYSE: VLRS). Previously, David was Co-Founder and CEO of Internet Solutions (IS), the largest ISP in Africa, ultimately acquired by NTT Japan. David and his wife, Tracey, are the founders of the NextUp youth accelerator in South Africa. In 2000, David was voted the South African Technology Achiever of the Century. The World Economic Forum later selected him for the Global Leader of Tomorrow (GLT) program. Frankel has been named to the Midas List six times. In 2023, he was #11 and in 2024, he appeared at #15 on the Midas List of the world’s best venture capital investors and at #2 on the Midas list of seed investors. David is an Electrical Engineer and, post selection for the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program, earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard.

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