David Marquardt

Dave Marquardt is a 20-year veteran of the venture capital business and his commitment to entrepreneurs and their market vision is reflected by his long-standing board relationships. He has served on more than 25 boards of directors during his career including Microsoft, Sun, Seagate, Adaptec and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco).

Prior to co-founding August Capital in 1995, Dave was a co-founder of Technology Venture Investors (TVI) in 1980 where he was involved in four highly successful funds. TVI's early investments included Microsoft, where TVI was the sole investor and where Dave has been on the board of directors since 1981.

Dave began his venture career at Institutional Venture Associates, where he spent a year after graduating from business school. Previously, Dave was a design engineer and development manager at Diablo Systems (acquired by Xerox) where he collaborated on and led various disk drive and printer programs.

Dave received a BSME from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.