David Lieb

Group Partner

2024 - Current

Visiting Group Partner

2022 - 2024

Startup Helper / Investor

2013

Investments include: Flexport, Rippling, Zip, Honor, Tally, eero (acq Amazon), Rewind.ai, Granola, Retro, Skydio, Fi, Canary Technologies, Rutter, Maven, Physera (acq Omada Health), Matician, The Nudge, Clutch, Convex.dev, Moxie, rift, Electric Air. I'm also a member of Sequoia's Scouts program.

Member, Board of Directors

2021 - 2024

I've been an investor in Tally since its seed round in 2015, and I joined the board in 2021. Tally is a consumer tech company pioneering full-service financial automation. Founded in 2015, we built the first automated debt manager to help people overcome credit card debt and put billions of dollars back in people’s pockets. Tally’s vision is to automate people’s entire financial lives, so they can stress less about money and do more of what they love. Tally is backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Shasta, and Cowboy Ventures.

Senior Director, Google Photos

2013 - 2022

Google acquired Bump in September 2013. Our unreleased Photoroll app formed the basis for the design of Google Photos, which we launched in May 2015. https://twitter.com/dflieb/status/1050990383058939905

Co-founder and CEO

2008 - 2013

Bump was acquired by Google in September 2013. Helping more than 150 million people interact in the real world: Bump http://bu.mp Share photos, files, contacts, and more between mobile devices and between phones and computers by just bumping. Flock http://theflockapp.com Flock knows which family and friends you are with when photos are taken and brings everyone's photos into a single shared album. Flock is one of the first "inference-based" apps that require zero user intent post-install. Our design philosophy: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/irreducible/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/cognitive-overhead/ Bump was funded by Y Combinator, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Sequoia, and Andreessen-Horowitz (Marc Andreessen).

Technology Strategist

2007 - 2008

Explored new opportunities for TI's MEMS technologies in a cross-disciplinary skunkworks team of 10. Built prototypes for new products including: - 3D imaging via structured light - Motion-adaptive handheld projectors - Heads-up displays

Algorithm Engineer

2001 - 2007

I helped make DLP display systems brighter, sharper, more colorful, and thinner. Matlab was my best friend. I built prototypes out of cardboard over Christmas break, filed more than a dozen patent applications, and killed it on the TI softball team. My major projects included: - algorithms for solid state illumination systems - laser TVs - cell phone projectors Full-time at TI from June 2005 through August 2008 following 4 summer internships in various groups at TI, including two summers in the Kilby Fab advanced R&D center.