David Marquardt

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Mr. David Marquardt is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at August Capital. His commitment to entrepreneurs and their market vision is reflected by his long-standing board relationships. He has served on more than 40 boards of directors over his long venture capital career commencing in 1979. He has been involved in every phase of the entrepreneurial process from seed investments to classic venture financings, mergers & acquisitions, public offerings, and restructurings & privatizations. Prior to founding August Capital, he co-founded Technology Venture Investors (TVI) in 1980 where he was involved in four highly successful funds that invested in over 100 start-up and emerging growth companies. Among these early investments was Microsoft, where TVI was the sole investor. He served on the Microsoft board of directors from 1981 until 2014. He began his venture career at Institutional Venture Associates and prior to business school, he was a design engineer and development manager at Diablo Systems (acquired by Xerox) where he collaborated on and led disk drive and printer programs. He received a BSME (1973) from Columbia University and an MBA (1979) from Stanford University. He also completed coursework for an MSEE at Stanford while attending business school. He has served as president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and is a past director of the National Venture Capital Association.