David Aronoff

Climate venture investor

Chairman and Managing Partner
2020 - Current
MCJ comprises three core pillars seeking to accelerate solutions to the climate change crisis: Community, Media and Capital. The MCJ Community gather like-minded people from a wide range of backgrounds looking to maximize their impact on addressing the problem of climate change. The My Climate Journey Podcast has interviewed hundreds of climate change makers from around the world and has a strong and loyal following. And in October 2020, MCJ launched the MCJ Collective, an early-stage climate tech fund, investing in early-stage climate tech startups (primarily pre-seed, seed, and A) across a wide range of sectors. Each of the three pillars of MCJ support one another as we seek to do all we can to promote an inclusive community striving to create effective solutions for the myriad climate challenges the earth faces.

Director Board Of Directors
2015
Since 2015, I have been a director on the board of Draper Laboratories - a defense, aerospace and commercial research contractor. Draper is a recognized leader in positioning, guidance systems, and analytics for imaging and data. Draper’s customers and partners include the US Air Force and Navy, NASA, Blue Origin, Bristol-Myers Squib among many others. I chair Draper’s Finance Committee and am a member of the Audit and Human Resources Committees. From May to September 2020, I chaired the CEO Search Committee and successfully recruited Draper's new CEO.

Board Member
2019
Aliro is a spinout of the NarangLab at Harvard University and makes software that facilitates user access to present day quantum computers.I helped take Aliro out from Harvard, recruited the founding CEO and helped develop product and company strategy.

Board Member
2011
In 2011, BitSight pioneered the security ratings market, founding the company with the mission to transform how organizations evaluate risk and security performance by employing the outside-in model used by credit rating agencies. I was the founding investor in the company and assembled the initial management team and led the successful search for Bitsight's newest CEO in 2019.

Board Member, Investor, Co-Founder
2018 - 2023
Minim is an AI-driven WiFi management and security SaaS platform. I co-founded Minim with Jeremy Hitchcock, Nicole Hayward and Alec Rooney and serve as Chief Strategy Officer, driving product and corporate strategy, financing and M&A.

Board Member
2012 - 2022
BetterCloud is the leader in SaaS Operations Management (SaaSOps), enabling companies to discover, manage, and secure their cloud applications in a best-of-breed world. Their platform ensures organizations get the transformative value and benefits of adopting SaaS applications, while ensuring IT has complete control over their environment and can serve as an enabler for the business. BetterCloud counts 1,700 companies across 60+ countries as customers.

General Partner
2005 - 2019
Early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC and Boston - focused on pre-seed, seed and series A investments in technology companies. Over $700m under management across five funds and three pre-seed funds since inception. Portfolio companies include BetterCloud, BitSight, Chief, Codecademy, Crashlytics (acq: TWTR), DataXu, Firebase (acq: GOOG), Imperfect Produce, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), NS1 and Splice.

Member Board of Directors
2013 - 2017
Apiary developed a SaaS for software API development, testing and management. They were acquired by Oracle in 2017

Board of Directors
2009 - 2017
Immedia, d/b/a Blink, developed the industry's first low-cost fully battery operated home Internet security camera. Blink was acquired by Amazon in 2017.