David Frankel (entrepreneur)

David Frankel is Managing Partner and co-founder of Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund with offices in New York and Boston. The fund was co-founded with Eric Paley (founder of Brontes Technologies).[1] Founder Collective counts Uber,[2] Makerbot and Cruise amongst its seed stage portfolio companies.[3] Frankel is the lead investor for Founder Collective in companies such as PillPack (sold to Amazon)[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], SeatGeek [10], Buzzfeed and Coupang [11]. He previously provided the first term sheet or capital for companies such as olo, OPower (NYSE: OPWR) and Volaris (NYSE: VLRS).

David Frankel
Born	Johannesburg, South Africa
Alma mater	Harvard University, University of the Witwatersrand
Occupation	Managing Partner of Founder Collective
Years active	1993–present

Frankel was co-founder & CEO of Internet Solutions (IS), the largest ISP and private data carrier in Africa. Frankel served as an Executive Director on the board of London Listed Dimension Data plc which was subsequently acquired by NTT Japan for $3.2bn.[12] Frankel serves on the boards of Rand Merchant Holdings[13] and Rand Merchant Investments[14]. He previously served on the board of directors of Rand Merchant Bank from 2007 to 2018.

In 2000, Frankel was voted the South African Technology Achiever of the Century, by the Financial Mail. The World Economic Forum later selected him for the GLT (Global Leader of Tomorrow) program in Davos, Switzerland. Frankel is an Electrical Engineer (Wits) and post selection for the Fulbright Scholarship Program earned an MBA,[15] with distinction, from Harvard Business School. Frankel is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the HBS Rock Center[16] and he serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations including The Rashi School in Boston, Foundation 2000, the King David Schools Foundation and Endeavor South Africa.

Among his investments are:

• AdHawk [17]
• Coupang[18]
• Firebase (Acquired by Google)[19]
• SeatGeek[20]
• PillPack (Acquired by Amazon) [21][22]
• Bluebox (Acquired by IBM)[23]
• Volaris (NYSE: VLRS)
• OPower (NYSE: OPWR)
• MediaRadar (Acquired by Frontier Capital)[24]
• OLO (online ordering)[25]
• Big Think
• Hunch (Acquired by eBay)[26]
• New Dawn Satellite (Acquired by Intelsat)[27]
• Getmein! (Acquired by Ticketmaster)[28]
• Brontes (Acquired by 3M)[29]
• SiteAdvisor (Acquired by McAfee)[30]
• Context Optional (Acquired by Adobe)[31]
• TrialPay (Acquired by Visa)[32]
• Visual Risk (Acquired by GTreasury)[33]