David Lawee

Managing Partner at CapitalG

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

David Lawee is the Founder and Managing Partner of CapitalG, a venture capital fund, where he has invested in successful companies like Lyft and Credit Karma. With a background as a Co-Founder of Xfire and experience as Vice President at Google, Lawee has demonstrated expertise in entrepreneurship, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Lawee's career highlights include founding CapitalG and making strategic investments in companies across various sectors like FinTech and TransportationTech, contributing to their growth and success. His role involves leveraging his extensive experience in venture capital, start-ups, and monetization to drive organizational leadership and strategic partnerships.

Work Experience

CapitalG

Founder and Managing Partner, CapitalG
2013 - 2023
Alphabet's Independent Growth Equity Fund with $7B in Assets Under Management.

CapitalG is the growth capital fund financed by Alphabet that invests for profit in growth stage technology companies.

capitalg.com

Google

Vice President, Corporate Development
2008 - 2013
Led a team that completed over 100 acquisitions for the company.
Vice President Marketing (CMO)
2005 - 2008
First Global VP of Marketing for Google. Led brand, consumer and B2B marketing teams across more than 50 countries.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com

Xfire

Co-Founder
2003 - 2005
Everything....it was a startup :)

Xfire provides social gaming and networking services, shares in-game screen shots and videos, and live-streams gameplay.

Raised $19,500,000.00 from IDM Venture Capital, Kamran Pourzanjani, Michael Robertson, William Quigley, Intel Capital, Jim Armstrong and TomorrowVentures.

xfire.com