Full Name
Dave Yuan
Job Title
Partner
Company
Tidemark Capital
Speaker Bio
Dave has been investing, advising, and building technology companies for over 20 years. Before Tidemark, Dave spent 15 years as a general partner at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), where he was fortunate to invest in and help 25 companies scale and win. Twelve companies have gone public, and eight have been acquired. He has been recognized twice by Forbes’ Midas List as one of the top 100 Global Technology Investors*.
Dave’s Tidemark investments include Contentful, Dutchie, Freshworks, Kajabi, Karbon, Onestream, and ServiceTitan. He currently is a board director at Toast (NYSE: TOST) and Karbon, and a board observer at Kajabi. While at TCV, Dave served on the boards of Act-On, AppNexus (acquired by AT&T), Avetta, CCC (NASDAQ: CCCS), ExactTarget (NYSE: ET, acquired by Salesforce), Grupa Pracuj (WSE: GPP), LegalZoom (NASDAQ: LZ), Merkle (acquired by Dentsu), Toast (NYSE: TOST), Seismic Micro-Technology (acquired by IHS), Sitecore (acquired by EQT), SiteMinder (SDR.ASX), and Wealthsimple. He was a board observer at Global360 (acquired by OpenText), Klook, Renren (NYSE: RENN), Rover (NASDAQ: ROVR), and Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterfly). Dave was also involved in TCV’s investments in ByteDance, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Hashicorp (NASDAQ: HCP), LinkedIn (public investment; acquired by Microsoft), Nubank (NYSE: NU), OSIsoft (interest acquired by SoftBank), Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK), and Xero (ASX: XRO). Prior to TCV, Dave was an investor at Chase Capital Partners (now known as Panorama Capital and CCMP), an early executive at a startup, and a strategy consultant with Bain Consulting.
Dave is an Edmund Hillary Global Impact Fellow and on the Advisory Board of SustainableSurf.org. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Dave’s Tidemark investments include Contentful, Dutchie, Freshworks, Kajabi, Karbon, Onestream, and ServiceTitan. He currently is a board director at Toast (NYSE: TOST) and Karbon, and a board observer at Kajabi. While at TCV, Dave served on the boards of Act-On, AppNexus (acquired by AT&T), Avetta, CCC (NASDAQ: CCCS), ExactTarget (NYSE: ET, acquired by Salesforce), Grupa Pracuj (WSE: GPP), LegalZoom (NASDAQ: LZ), Merkle (acquired by Dentsu), Toast (NYSE: TOST), Seismic Micro-Technology (acquired by IHS), Sitecore (acquired by EQT), SiteMinder (SDR.ASX), and Wealthsimple. He was a board observer at Global360 (acquired by OpenText), Klook, Renren (NYSE: RENN), Rover (NASDAQ: ROVR), and Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterfly). Dave was also involved in TCV’s investments in ByteDance, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Hashicorp (NASDAQ: HCP), LinkedIn (public investment; acquired by Microsoft), Nubank (NYSE: NU), OSIsoft (interest acquired by SoftBank), Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK), and Xero (ASX: XRO). Prior to TCV, Dave was an investor at Chase Capital Partners (now known as Panorama Capital and CCMP), an early executive at a startup, and a strategy consultant with Bain Consulting.
Dave is an Edmund Hillary Global Impact Fellow and on the Advisory Board of SustainableSurf.org. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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