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Introducing Offline Ventures
Talks about personal computing history, technological advancement and internet connectivity
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Dave Morin
Managing Partner at Offline Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Dave Morin is a highly accomplished entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Offline Ventures and Founder & Partner Emeritus at Slow Ventures, with notable achievements including co-founding Path and serving on the boards of companies like Dwell and Eventbrite.
Morin's career highlights include co-founding Path, a social networking platform, and making strategic investments in companies like Oura and Clubhouse, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and building successful startups.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2019 - Current
Our belief is that the best ideas happen offline. Far away from the everyday. Away from the complexity of modern society and it’s mores. We exist to help founders find the space to create. To think big, original, and different. Then, to ensure founders and their teams stay healthy on the journey to take that thinking and transform the world. With the hope that along the way, beautiful companies are born that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them. In the end, we believe the foundational technology breakthroughs that most benefit humanity are forged at the intersection of science, engineering, design, and art.
Offline Ventures is a venture capital and private equity principal services.
Board of Directors
2015 - 2022
Dwell is a world-class design brand and publisher of Dwell® Magazine, Dwell digital properties, including dwell.com, Dwell Store, as well as national events including modern home tours, and the Dwell on Design® events in Los Angeles and New York City. Dwell has received countless industry awards and is widely regarded as a leader in modern design. It serves an affluent audience that is idea-driven, sensitive to social and physical surroundings, and always “At Home in the Modern World.”
Dwell is an online community for architecture and home design, a magazine and the worlds best database of modern homes
Founder & Partner Emeritus
2009 - 2019
The most powerful ideas, companies, and industries aren’t created overnight. With a community built on collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.
Board Of Directors
2015 - 2018
In today’s digital world, singles are so busy matching that they’re not actually connecting, in person, where it counts. Hinge is on a mission to change that. So we built an app that’s designed to be deleted.
Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.
Raised $20,600,000.00 from Middleland Capital, CAA Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Lumia Capital, Brainchild Holdings, Shasta Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Slow Ventures and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
Board of Directors
2012 - 2018
Eventbrite is the world’s leading event technology platform. The company has processed more than $8 billion in gross ticket sales since inception and powers nearly three million events each year. Hundreds of thousands of organizers use Eventbrite to boost ticket sales, promote and manage events, handle onsite operations, and analyze results across multiple sales channels. Customers include Tribeca Film Festival, Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals, Maker Faire, Wanderlust, and many more. Eventbrite’s capabilities are enhanced by Eventbrite Spectrum, the company’s open API platform, which provides seamless access to more than 170 industry-leading technologies like Salesforce and Mailchimp. Additionally, over 50 million consumers use Eventbrite every year to discover a variety of live experiences and get tickets on a secure, easy-to-use platform. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price.
Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Raised $557,250,000.00 from Francisco Partners.
Co-Founder and CEO
2010 - 2015
Path brings people happiness. Guided by the belief that mobile technology will fundamentally change the cultural, social, and economic landscape, Path focuses on simplicity, quality, and privacy to provide the best mobile personal networking service in the world. Path was designed with the people you love, your closest friends and family, in mind. It's a trusted, intimate environment like your dinner table at home. Path brings tens of millions of people closer together around the world every month.
Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service for building personal social networks with up to 150 contacts.
Raised $66,150,000.00 from First Round Capital, Insight Partners, Redpoint, Greylock, Employee Stock Option Fund, Bakrie Global Group, Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures.
Special Partner
2011 - 2015
Partnering with the brightest entrepreneurs to turn disruptive ideas into world-changing businesses. The firm has helped build and accelerate growth at pioneering companies like Amazon, Google, Lending Club, Nest, Twitter, Uber, and Mandiant. KPCB offers entrepreneurs years of operating experience, puts them at the center of an influential network, and accelerates their companies from success to significance.
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Platform & Connect
2006 - 2010
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what's going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Product & Marketing
2003 - 2006
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
Education
BA
1999 - 2003
Investments
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