David Fleck

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Biography

Mr. David Fleck is the Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Freeflow Ventures. He served as Board Member at Mandal Space Ventures and Continuum. He also serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Disqus. He also served as Advisor at SignalFire. He leads Freeflow with a focus on investing in and supporting the leading science-based companies that fuel our strategy. Combining his background in finance, deal-making, business development and fundraising, he brings a unique perspective and skill set that drive the growth of Freeflow. With a particular expertise in fundraising, David is a sought after guide for the often uncharted territory of fundraising, especially for early stage deep tech companies. David began his career as a CPA at PwC and a Consultant at Bain & Company, working on both the buy and sell side advising companies and private equity firms on investments in venture capital and leveraged buyouts, mergers, and acquisitions. During this time he learned the best practices of deal-making, including sourcing, diligence, negotiation, and execution. He then was an early product manager at Google and a senior executive at several startups, including his last, Disqus, which had a successful exit. It was during this time that he experienced firsthand the disruptive force of computer science, particularly machine learning and artificial intelligence, and saw how it could be utilized to solve challenging technical and business problems. David is also a member of the Information Science & Technology (IST) Council at Caltech. The Information Science and Technology (IST) initiative is an institute-wide effort that seeks to provide a new intellectual framework enabling ideas from computation to integrate into and transform disciplines across Caltech, e.g. physics, chemistry, biology and planetary sciences.