Dave Crowder
General Partner
Private Equity
Dave is a General Partner of Thomas Weisel Venture Partners. He co-founded TWVP in 2000 and focuses on investments in software and Internet services companies. While at TWVP, Dave has led the firm's investments in Aligo (acquired by Corrigo), Arbor Networks, Exit41, Medsphere, Pivia (acquired by Swan Labs, then F5) and Reactrix.
Prior to founding TWVP, Dave was a Partner in Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco, working with emerging technology companies. Before joining TWP, he was a Senior Managing Director and head of the Software and Internet Group in Investment Banking at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities. While an investment banker, Dave's clients included, among others, Hotels.com, InfoSpace, Open Text, Overture Services, Preview Travel (Travelocity), Real Networks, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch and Yahoo! Prior to Montgomery, he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co.
Dave holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Finance from the University of Utah. In addition to his board positions for TWVP portfolio companies, Dave sits on the advisory board of vSpring Capital and on the board of the Menlo-Atherton Little League.
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