Investing Profile

David Lam

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Managing Director and Head of U.S. Office at WI Harper Group
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Current Investing Position
WI Harper Group Managing Director
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
30
Current Fund Size
$174.3M

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David Lam's Investments On Record (16)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
SweGaN
Series AOct 2022$12M
$25M
Co-investors: David Sonnek (Navigare Ventures)
Syntiant
Series DMar 2022$56M
Series CAug 2020$35M
$110M
Co-investors: Anthony Lin (Intel Capital), David Beazley (Alumni Ventures ), Michael Stewart (M12), Wendell Brooks (Snowcloud Capital), Yvonne Lutsch (Robert Bosch Venture Capital), Dovey Wan (Primitive Ventures), Samir Kumar, Tuff Yen
Aside
Series AFeb 2022$17M
$18M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Meyer "Micky" Malka (Ribbit Capital), John Lilly (Greylock), James Tamplin (Founder Collective), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Liza Wang (Silicon Ventures), Neil Sirni (Proximity Ventures), Curtis Lee (Primary Venture Partners), Hunter Horsley (Bitwise Asset Management), Eric Wu (Resolute Ventures), Joshua Browder (Wander), Minnie Ingersoll (TenOneTen Ventures), Craig Hunter (Operator Ventures), Ronnie Lott (Bennu), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Leonard Speiser (Horizon 3 Venture Studio), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Joshua Reeves, Scott Kleper, Dylan Field, Harris Barton, Aaron Levie, Gina Bianchini, Elliot Shmukler, Matias Woloski, Amy Chang, Eric Wei, Mark Pincus
AtScale
Series DDec 2018$50M
Series COct 2017$25M
$93M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Ryan Floyd (Storm Ventures)
Swrve
Series DSep 2017$25M
Series CNov 2015$30M
Series BSep 2014$10M
Series ANov 2012$6M
$74M
Co-investors: Patrick Walsh (National Grid Partners), Rami Elkhatib
3D Robotics
Series DApr 2017$53M
Series CApr 2015$14M
Series CFeb 2015$50M
$150M
Co-investors: Jon Callaghan (True Ventures), Dovey Wan (Primitive Ventures), Gareth Keane (Promus Ventures)
Nexenta Systems
Series GDec 2016$8M
Series DFeb 2013$24M
$140M
Co-investors: Tim Guleri (Sierra Ventures), Noah Doyle (Javelin Venture Partners), Pravin Vazirani (Blue Owl Capital)
Pilot AI
SeedNov 2015
$2M
Co-investors: Rick Yang (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Forest Baskett (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Dovey Wan (Primitive Ventures), Arash Ferdowsi, Emmett Shear

David Lam's Experience

Marketing Associate Proxim WirelessPresent
Executive Fellow, Governor's Office State of CaliforniaPresent
M&A Analyst Robertson StephensPresent
Market Development Analyst CiscoPresent
Senior Manager, Partner Marketing & Business Development CIENAPresent
Director, Business Development VDURAPresent
Vice President - U.S. Growth The Carlyle GroupPresent
Board Observer and Investor mGage (now Kaleyra)Present
Board Observer and Investor Alere eScreenPresent
Board Observer and Investor VDURAPresent
Managing Director and Head of U.S. Office WI Harper GroupPresent
Board Member, Audit Committee Chair and Investor Actelis NetworksPresent
Investor and former Board Observer MirantisPresent
Board Member and Investor MovidiusPresent
Investor Chirp Microsystems, Inc.Present
Board Member and Investor Nexenta by DDNPresent
Board Observer and Investor 3D RoboticsPresent
Board Member and Investor Accuris NetworksPresent
Board Observer and Investor Decawave is now QorvoPresent
Board Member and Investor Swrve (a MessageGears company)Present
Investor MatTek Life SciencesPresent
Investor Cirrus LogicPresent
Investor and former Board Observer Navitas SemiconductorPresent
Board Member and Investor GPS InsightPresent
Board Member and Investor SEMSYSCO GmbHPresent
Board Observer and Investor Caption CarePresent
General Partner Atlantic BridgePresent
Board Observer and Investor Syntiant Corp.Present
Senior Advisor Atlantic BridgePresent
Chairman of the Board SweGaN ABPresent
Board Member Bullis-Purissima Elementary School FoundationPresent
Board Member and former Board Chair Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA)Present
Board of Directors AAAIMPresent
Investor WellAirPresent
Investor and former Board Member AtScalePresent
Investor Vectra AIPresent
Investor SambaNovaPresent
Investor ElisityPresent
Investor ArinePresent
Seed Investor DaffyPresent
Advisor and Investor Multibeam CorporationPresent
Investor TetraMem - Accelerate The WorldPresent
Board Member and investor SweGaN ABPresent
Senior Advisor BRV Capital ManagementPresent
Seed Investor Corvic AIPresent
Seed Investor TensorWavePresent
Seed Investor Density AIPresent
Investor CreatorDBPresent
Executive Board Member Multibeam CorporationPresent
Advisor Syntiant Corp.Present
Advisor TetraMem - Accelerate The WorldPresent
Board Member and Investor Living OpticsPresent
Seed Investor Persimmons, Inc.Present
Board Observer and Investor Ooma, Inc.Present
Board Observer and Investor Penske Media CorporationPresent
Board Member and Investor QuixeyPresent
Board Observer and Investor TwitchPresent
Board Observer and Investor Maginatics, IncPresent
Managing Director and Head of US Office WestSummit CapitalPresent

David Lam's Education

Stanford University BS Industrial Engineering
Stanford University Master’s Degree Organizational Sociology
MIT Sloan School of Management MBA New Product & Venture Development
Stanford University masters, master of arts sociology
Stanford University bachelors, bachelor of science industrial engineering