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About Investor

Dave Samuel is co-founder and general partner at Freestyle, the San Francisco early-stage venture firm he co-founded in 2009. Freestyle describes its sweet spot as early-stage tech companies raising $1.5 million to $4 million, and TechCrunch reported the firm’s average bet at $1.5 million to $3 million while noting that it backs companies across all verticals and typically leads seed rounds. Samuel is a repeat founder: after MIT and a year at Oracle, he co-founded Spinner, which AOL acquired for $320 million, and later co-founded Crackle, which Sony acquired for $65 million.