David Rangel

General Partner

2021 - Current

Investor and Board Member: - Emi - https://emilabs.ai/ - iyo - https://www.iyo.dev/ - Medsien - https://medsien.com/ - Moesif - https://moesif.com/ - NeuralSpace - https://neuralspace.ai/ Investor: - Agentic - https://agentic.ai/ - Ash Wellness - https://poweredbyash.com/ - Avatour - https://avatour.co/ - ControlHub - https://controlhub.com/ - DynamoFL - https://dynamofl.com/ - Goodcall - https://goodcall.com/ - HyperArc - https://hyperarc.com - KeyWise - https://keywise.tech/ - Korbit - https://www.korbit.ai/ - Meaning - https://meaning.team/ - ModelFront - https://modelfront.com/ - Nixtla - https://www.nixtla.io/ - Plato - https://www.platohq.com/ - Resquared - https://re2.ai/ - Segments.ai - https://segments.ai/ - Sitenna - https://sitenna.com/ - Syro - https://syro.com/ - Theneo - https://theneo.io/ - Viable - https://askviable.com/

Director of Product Ops & Strategy - Google Research

2018 - 2021

I led teams developing AI-enabled products:  - Identifying promising new areas - Understanding relevant technologies and data availability - Exploring concepts and building prototypes - Analyzing strategy and go-to-market options - Partnering with teams from around Google and 3rd parties

Chief Operating Officer

2015 - 2018

Joined Iterable as the first experienced business hire (employee #6) and helped it grow to 150 employees. During my time we grew revenue over 60x. I built and managed the company’s marketing, revenue operations (combined sales ops, marketing ops and customer success ops), finance, HR, recruiting, security/compliance/legal and facilities teams.

VP Marketing / VP Operations (joined via Corona Labs acq.)

2014 - 2015

Corona Labs was acquired by Fuse Powered in November 2014. As VP Marketing (April - June), I led marketing for the combined company. Items accomplished in first 6 weeks: - Restructured Fuse Powered's positioning and messaging - Launched a brand new company website - Executed on a new content marketing strategy (blog posts, video, whitepapers, reports) - Initiated lead generation/nurturing program As VP Operations (November - June), I led all integration efforts between the two companies and ensured there was a smooth transition across product, operations, finance and HR. Throughout this time I also managed all Corona Labs operations and opened Fuse Powered's 10-person San Francisco office.

Chief Operating Officer

2011 - 2014

Led all business operations, including: - Marketing - Product management - Developer relations - Business development - Finance and fundraising During my tenure, Corona was used by over 300,000 developers to publish more than 35,000 mobile apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. We grew the customer base by more than 400%, built a large worldwide developer community and consistently ranked as one of the top 3 mobile game engines. Corona is used by all types of developers, from independents to large game studios, corporations to ad agencies. Apps and games developed with Corona have seen more than 100M DAUs. Corona Labs was acquired by Fuse Powered in November 2014. I managed and negotiated all aspects of the acquisition. The full Corona team joined Fuse and the Corona platform will continue to delight developers for years to come.

Advisor

2010 - 2011

CEO, Founder

2011 - 2011

Founded the company to bring e-commerce to specialty food, a $50B industry that has yet to go online in a substantial way. Bootstrapped the company and built a 7 person team. Generated 6-figure sales within the first few months. Sold the assets at the end of 2011.

Entrepreneur in Residence

2010 - 2011

Director of Merchant Services

2010 - 2010

Pitched C-level executives and brought on board to devise products/services that added value for merchants beyond the standard "daily deal". Investigated and proposed products in areas -- including payments, yield management and loyalty management -- that would have resulted in better/more sustainable merchant economics and loyalty to Groupon.

Principal

2008 - 2009

MK Capital is a venture capital firm with over $250M under management and offices in Chicago and Los Angeles. The firm invests in early stage digital media and software companies. Helped source and complete due diligence on several early stage investments and worked with portfolio companies on both operations and strategy. Among others, led the Series A investment in Machinima (the company's first VC round) in 2008. Machinima went on to raise a total of $92M in capital and was acquired by Warner Bros.

Group Manager, Corporate Strategy Group

2004 - 2007

The Corporate Strategy Group was an 8-person team that identified opportunities, developed business plans, and provided advice to Microsoft's C-level executives and Corporate VPs. Managed teams working on new growth and strategy projects for Microsoft's product groups. Areas of focus included: - Mobile strategy - Online and mobile payments - Cloud computing - Enterprise software Selected to spend 6 months leading business case and strategy development for Microsoft Research Asia incubations in Beijing, China.