David Arcara

Partner

Laconia Capital Group L.P. · Greater New York City Area

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Transparency. Collaboration. Community. As entrepreneurs cum seed-stage venture capitalists, we support founders with the only things that matter in the early days: sales acceleration, operational execution, and capital strategy. We lead investments in B2B companies that make existing markets and workflows more efficient. Laconia is a full-service venture firm, with a family of funds & a venture asset management company. • Stage: We invest in seed-stage B2B companies, defined as having an in-market product, paying customers, and signs of product-market fit. We write $250K - $750K checks, typically in rounds of $2 million - $4 million. • Sector: We invest exclusively in B2B companies with relatively light future capital requirements in most sectors. We do not invest in device & disease healthcare, biotech, agtech, energy generation or fuel extraction, cannabis, and military applications. Venture Asset Management: In addition to its early-stage funds, Laconia operates a bespoke investmen…

Board Member

LiquiDonate · San Francisco Bay Area

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LiquiDonate is an innovative inventory management software for retailers' $800 billion+ problem with excess inventory.

Board Member

Sunairio · Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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The rise of solar and wind power generation requires a fundamentally new approach to energy analytics. Intermittency and extreme events are crucial—hourly, daily, monthly, and seasonally, for both reliability and economics. Sunairio management has decades of experience managing risks in energy markets and have experienced first-hand the need for a better way to understand weather variability. That’s why we built the framework that delivers the critical insights that wind and solar developers, renewable investors, portfolio managers, and reliability planners need to confidently make decisions in the face of an uncertain and changing climate.

Mentor

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

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Board Member

Noteworth · New York City Metropolitan Area

Board Observer

TowerIQ

Serving the insurance industry, TowerIQ seamlessly brings clients from application to binding by augmenting broker expertise with a low touch technology platform that distributes ingestible data directly to any carrier. This frees brokers and agents to focus their efforts on solving the business challenges facing their clients, allowing them to win more business and improve client retention.

Board Member

ExecVision · Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Next Generation In Conversation Analysis Software: ExecVision’s conversation analysis software unlocks the value hidden inside call recordings to make coaching conversations easy and effective. Through their Performance Engagement Signals platform, Executives can now listen to the parts of calls that matter most, and accelerate team improvement in an easy-to-use, collaborative interface.

Board Observer

Content Raven

Content Raven is a cloud-based enterprise platform to securely distribute and manage any content on any device, anywhere in the world.

Member

HBS Angels

HBS Alumni Angels organization is comprised of Harvard alumni interested in investing in high-potential early stage companies.

Founder & President

Rubber Soul Ventures, LLC

Invests in early stage digital technology companies.