David Wieland
Founder of Firesale.ai
Greater Chicago Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2019 - Current
Motivate Ventures is a ~$200M AUM investment firm that primarily invests its flagship VC funds into high growth potential startups. Our target first check size is $500K-$3M and ours is typically the first professional capital in a business. We invest at the pre-seed and seed stage and lean toward Fintech and B2B SaaS. Entrepreneurs: warm email intros from other professional investors are best or you can reach out and tell us more about your startup and its funding needs here: www.motivate.vc/funding
Motivate Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in Pre-seed and Seed-stage companies across the US and Canada.
Founder
2023
Firesale connects buyers and sellers of technology company assets that need to sell quickly.
Chairman and Primary Owner
2022
Interviewing is an online resource that provides content for job seekers, hiring authorities, recruiters, and small business owners.
Board Member
2021
Valiot is an AI company with products to optimize manufacturing and supply chain operations.
Raised $7,600,000.00 from Stage Venture Partners.
Board Member
2020
www.fulcrumpro.com
Atlas Solutions is a software development company for enterprises.
Owner
2015
Our family office that primarily invests directly in early stage ventures, venture and private equity funds, commercial real estate, and other alternative investments. www.cardigan.com
Co-Founder and former Chairman
2012
www.irishangels.com
Founder, Managing Director
2007
iEstates is a holding company focused on small cap digital assets. We acquire and operate a portfolio of high margin digital businesses and assets. Portfolio companies and assets include: Austin.com, Bourbon.com, Employer.com, Interviewing.com, MBAs.com, LTE.com, Auditioning.com, eStores.com, TheCrowd.com, SalesPitch.com, Previewed.com, iDeveloper.com, Veneer.com, Improve.org, Smart.org, Volunteer.org, Create.org
(Acquired) Founder, Founding Investor, Board Member
2012 - 2022
Nearly 1000 companies like AT&T, Dell, CareerBuilder, and Monster.com utilize the RIVS video hiring and interview scheduling platforms to increase quality of candidates and improve the speed at which they're hired. www.rivs.com
RIVS is web software facilitating voice and video interviews, job application management, and efficient hiring.
Raised $4,087,999.00 from Delancey Street Partners and Clovis Point Capital.
(Acquired) Founder, Director of the Board
2011 - 2015
Transitioned from CEO to Director at Innflux, a company I co-founded in 2003 after selling a majority stake in 2011 to private equity and then again in 2015 to Cloud5. Cloud5 owns and operates public-use WiFi and VOIP networks in over 5000 hotels, hospitals, and MDU/MTUs.