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Collaboration for Creatives: An Introduction
Talks about collaboration, creative projects and collaborative process
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David Bill
CTO at Freestyle Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
David Bill is a seasoned technology leader and advisor with a strong background in start-ups, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. Currently serving as the CTO at Freestyle Capital, he has also held key roles at companies like Virta Health and Burning Man Project, and has made impactful investments in companies like GoInstant at the seed stage.
Work Experience
CTO
2009 - Current
Freestyle is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies.
Expert in Residence
2023
Mentor
2018 - 2023
First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.
Advisor
2018
Head of Engineering
2015 - 2018
Virta delivers a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases.
Raised $373,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management.
Advisor
2019
Evernow develops an online teleconsultation platform that focuses on women's long-term health.
Raised $28,500,000.00 from Refactor, Abby Wambach, Othman Laraki, Coelius Capital, Cameron Diaz, New Enterprise Associates, Gwyneth Paltrow, Carla Harris, Drew Barrymore and Gwynne Shotwell.
Strategic Technology Advisor & CTO
2018 - 2020
Facilitating and extending the culture that has issued from the Burning Man event into the larger world.
Advisor
2014 - 2017
Acquired by PVH, March 2017.
Advisor
2010 - 2016
Acquired by Adobe, April 2016
Livefyre helps companies engage consumers through a combination of real-time content, conversation and social curation.
Raised $52,300,000.00 from Adobe, U.S. Venture Partners, Greycroft, Salesforce Ventures, Hillsven Capital and Cue Ball.
Advisor
2009 - 2014
Acquired by Lithium, March 2014
Klout is an application that measures and ranks its users according to online social influence by using social media analytics.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from ff Venture Capital, DNX Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Idealab, Tuesday Capital, Zelkova Ventures, ff Venture Capital, IVP, Paige Craig and Venrock.
Advisor
2012 - 2012
Acquired by Salesforce, September 2012
Vice President, Technology
2010 - 2012
IPO, March 2012 Acquired by Salesforce, June 2013
ExactTarget provides on-demand one-to-one email marketing software applications.
Raised $188,210,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Greenspring Associates, TCV and TCV.