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David Shen Ventures
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David Shen Ventures is an advisory firm that works with entrepreneurs and startups on visual and interaction design, user research, product strategy and development, and online advertising. It focuses mainly on early stage internet and internet-related businesses, helping them bring products to market cheaply and validate them in the marketplace.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment
In its own wordsinternetconsumerproduct designonline advertisinguser experience
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Or find every investor that fitsDavid Shen Ventures lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (18%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Media & Entertainment (18%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside LaunchCapital, LocalGlobe and RRE Ventures.
No funding round on record names David Shen Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 18% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Media & Entertainment | 18% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 18% | 6% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers788%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company113%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 10th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare David Shen Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerin Medical develops and provides non-invasive treatments for nasal airway obstruction and chronic rhinitis | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Betaworks invests in and works with creators and makers. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Bitly provides a platform for shortening URLs, generating QR codes, and tracking links and content for social media profiles and other business needs. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
E-commerce & MarketplacesHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides ecommerce solutions for hardware and building materials businesses. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
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| UserVoice captures and analyzes customer feedback and ties it to customer and revenue data to help enterprises make informed decisions | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- davidshenventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 8
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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