David Helgason

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Convertible Note,Early stage Venture,Seed,Venture

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.

David's background is in programming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
4
David Helgason has made 4 investments. Their most recent investment was on May 5, 2020, when Dazzle Rocks raised $6.80M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
May 5, 2020 Dazzle Rocks Series A $6.80M MMO Games Detail
Sep 3, 2019 Dreamdata Pre-seed $535K Analytics Detail
Jul 18, 2018 FRVR Seed $3M Android Detail
Oct 7, 2017 Lix Technologies Series A $5.40M E-Learning Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
2
David Helgason has 2 current jobs including Founder at Unity , Board Member at Unity and .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Unity Founder Jan 1, 2003 Detail
Unity Board Member Jan 1, 2003 Detail