San Francisco, California, United States
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  • Taproot Foundation Graphic

    Account Director

    Taproot Foundation

    - Present 20 years

    Education

    Serve as a Account Director for Taproot, a nonprofit focused on social venture, providing technical services to community nonprofit organizations. http://www.taprootfoundation.org.

    Board Development Strategy:
    * 826 National (parent org of 826 Valencia)

    Delivered advanced Web sites to:
    * Slide Ranch
    * Breast Cancer Emergency Fund
    * Volunteer Center of San Francisco
    * Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

    Delivered Annual Reports to:
    * San Mateo County…

    Serve as a Account Director for Taproot, a nonprofit focused on social venture, providing technical services to community nonprofit organizations. http://www.taprootfoundation.org.

    Board Development Strategy:
    * 826 National (parent org of 826 Valencia)

    Delivered advanced Web sites to:
    * Slide Ranch
    * Breast Cancer Emergency Fund
    * Volunteer Center of San Francisco
    * Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

    Delivered Annual Reports to:
    * San Mateo County Hospital
    * Vida Verde

  • Omnidawn Publishing Graphic

    Chairman 2014-2021, Board ongoing

    Omnidawn Publishing

    - Present 11 years 1 month

    Arts and Culture

    Not-for-profit literary press focused on arts and culture, fiction and poetry. Serve as Chair, recruiting board members, organizing quarterly meetings, establishing a development and fundraising committee, and governance structure.

    Lead the Omnidawn Online Workshop Fundraiser, entitled Prosody & Revision, Fall 2014-present. Focused on Prosody teachings of Donald Justice. Guest poets included: Sally Wen Mao, Joseph Rios, Kazim Ali, Victoria Chang, Robert Hass, Sherwin Bitsui, Gillian…

    Not-for-profit literary press focused on arts and culture, fiction and poetry. Serve as Chair, recruiting board members, organizing quarterly meetings, establishing a development and fundraising committee, and governance structure.

    Lead the Omnidawn Online Workshop Fundraiser, entitled Prosody & Revision, Fall 2014-present. Focused on Prosody teachings of Donald Justice. Guest poets included: Sally Wen Mao, Joseph Rios, Kazim Ali, Victoria Chang, Robert Hass, Sherwin Bitsui, Gillian Conoley, Cody Walker, Arthur Sze, Matthew Zapruder, Norma Cole, Maxine Chernoff, Brian Teare, William Logan, Donald Revell, Tyrone Williams, Craig Santos Perez, Jim Daniels, Myung Mi Kim, Cole Swensen, Ewa Chrusciel, Daniel Poppick, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Elena Karina Byrne, Annie Finch, Carmen Gimenez Smith, & Rusty Morrison.

    Also lead the Omnidawn Breaking the Bowl Workshop 2020-present. Guest poets include Maria Nazos, Kazi Ali, Norma Cole, David Yezzi, Annie Finch, and more...

Patents

Projects

  • IASV - Investor Advsior Seed Ventures

    Investing in early deals that demonstrate the right mix of traction and return potential. We harness our GP’s collective entrepreneurial and seed-stage expertise in a uniquely swift and effective process. Additionally, we leverage the Batchery Investor Advisor Network, a community of 30+ active accredited investors to highlight opportunities that might otherwise be lost to individual investors.
    Investing in early deals that demonstrate the right mix of traction and return potential. We…

    Investing in early deals that demonstrate the right mix of traction and return potential. We harness our GP’s collective entrepreneurial and seed-stage expertise in a uniquely swift and effective process. Additionally, we leverage the Batchery Investor Advisor Network, a community of 30+ active accredited investors to highlight opportunities that might otherwise be lost to individual investors.
    Investing in early deals that demonstrate the right mix of traction and return potential. We harness our GP’s collective entrepreneurial and seed-stage expertise in a uniquely swift and effective process. Additionally, we leverage the Batchery Investor Advisor Network, a community of 30+ active accredited investors to highlight opportunities that might otherwise be lost to individual investors.

  • Sisters Project Peru

    Sisters Project Peru is a nonprofit initiative co-founded in 2020 by sisters Maya and Natalie Koehn-Wu. The project aims to enhance healthcare access for the residents of Huacahuasi, a rural village in Peru’s Sacred Valley. In collaboration with local organizations like Yanapana Peru and FNE International, the initiative focuses on constructing a Level 1 medical clinic in Huacahuasi. This clinic will provide essential healthcare services to the community and surrounding areas, addressing…

    Sisters Project Peru is a nonprofit initiative co-founded in 2020 by sisters Maya and Natalie Koehn-Wu. The project aims to enhance healthcare access for the residents of Huacahuasi, a rural village in Peru’s Sacred Valley. In collaboration with local organizations like Yanapana Peru and FNE International, the initiative focuses on constructing a Level 1 medical clinic in Huacahuasi. This clinic will provide essential healthcare services to the community and surrounding areas, addressing challenges such as malnutrition, anemia, diabetes, and maternal health issues. 

    The founders’ connection to Huacahuasi began during a 2019 visit, where they observed both the village’s cultural richness and its healthcare challenges. Motivated by this experience, they established Sisters Project Peru to support the community’s self-determined efforts to improve healthcare accessibility. 

    In August 2024, the organization conducted a service trip that included anemia screenings, organizing greenhouse cooperatives, and dental hygiene programs. These activities reflect their ongoing commitment to addressing the community’s healthcare needs. 

    Sisters Project Peru also engages with educational institutions, such as the University of Virginia and Maggie Walker Governor’s School, to involve students in fundraising, awareness campaigns, and volunteer opportunities. These collaborations aim to foster a broader understanding of global health issues and encourage active participation in humanitarian efforts.  

    Through these initiatives, Sisters Project Peru strives to create sustainable healthcare solutions that empower the Huacahuasi community and improve their quality of life.

  • The Batchery

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    The Batchery: where incubator meets accelerator and advisory meets capital. We offer a Deep Dive curriculum walking our startups through all the dimensions of how to build and represent a startup, culminating in our Pitch Night. As a part of the Deep Dive curriculum, we also feature a guest from the Venture Capital community.

  • Sand Hill Angels

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    As a member of Sand Hill Angels, David invested in Cloud-based businesses particularly AI, Chain, B2B Enterprise, Mobile, EdTech, HCM, SMB and some Consumer. He also speaks frequently at leading innovation events including events at Grow Southwest, Pitchcrawl, Global Startup Centre(Born2global), Plug-N-Play, F50 Angel Investing Forum, Funding Post, Founders Den, Draper University, CINA, NPR Radio, Start-up Weekend, I-Gate, NestGSV, VC Taskforce, and many others. David is often the lead investor…

    As a member of Sand Hill Angels, David invested in Cloud-based businesses particularly AI, Chain, B2B Enterprise, Mobile, EdTech, HCM, SMB and some Consumer. He also speaks frequently at leading innovation events including events at Grow Southwest, Pitchcrawl, Global Startup Centre(Born2global), Plug-N-Play, F50 Angel Investing Forum, Funding Post, Founders Den, Draper University, CINA, NPR Radio, Start-up Weekend, I-Gate, NestGSV, VC Taskforce, and many others. David is often the lead investor in priced seed rounds. As a senior advisor and board observer/member for many of his investments, David is known for insight, reliable guidance, and for streamlining business models and developing successful market approaches. David participated in many Sand Hill deals and was the lead Sand Hill Angels investor in NoWait. David is also an advisor. David has also been a mentor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Integrated Innovation Institute at Carnegie Mellon, at Start-up Den and at the UC Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET).

Test Scores

  • MBTI

    Score: ENTJ

    I have seen a switch from a P to a J -- I was borderline P/J previously.

  • DISC

    Score: Di

    Pioneering

  • Imperative

    Score: Karma

    "My imperative is to work with teams and organizations to enable them to elevate their game by giving them the tools and support they need."
    WHO: Organization, Your purpose is to work to help teams and organizations.
    WHY: Karma, You are driven to create opportunities for success.
    HOW: Structure-driven, You generate purpose most when you work to develop the systems, tools and structures to enable consistency in excellence.

  • HBDI

    Score: 1221

    "The profile is double dominant with the two primaries in the Upper quadrants A and D. Individuals with this profile would exhibit strong preferences for logical, analytical and quantitative modes of thinking in the Upper Left A Quadrant. In contrast they would also have a preference for the integrative, synthesizing, creative and holistic aspects of Upper Right D. ... Typical of senior executives in operating and strategic positions within technical organizations." from Understanding the…

    "The profile is double dominant with the two primaries in the Upper quadrants A and D. Individuals with this profile would exhibit strong preferences for logical, analytical and quantitative modes of thinking in the Upper Left A Quadrant. In contrast they would also have a preference for the integrative, synthesizing, creative and holistic aspects of Upper Right D. ... Typical of senior executives in operating and strategic positions within technical organizations." from Understanding the Herrman Whole Brain model

  • MBTI

    Score: ENTP

  • Strengths Finder 2.0

    Score: 1 in 33 million

    Top 5 Themes:
    Strategic
    Futuristic
    Self-Assurance
    Ideation
    Activator

    Discussion:
    http://greatamericanstartup.blogspot.com/2011/06/building-on-strengths-rather-than.html

Languages

  • French

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Organizations

  • Sisters Project Peru

    Uncle

    - Present

    Sisters Project Peru:https://www.sistersprojectperu.org/

  • San Mateo Athletic Association (NCGA Associate Club)

    Served terms as President, Vice President, Handicap Chair, Tournament Chair

    - Present
  • 1EdTech

    Board of Directors

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    Elected member of the board of directors of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, a non-profit organization facilitating collaboration among the world's leading educational technology suppliers, content providers, educational institutions, school districts, and government organizations dedicated to improving education and learning through the strategic application of technology.

  • SHA - Sand Hill Angels

    Investor

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    Mentor: Stanford Graduate School of Business, in service of Prof. Ilya Strebylaev (www.linkedin.com/pub/ilya-strebulaev/1/614/834) Carnegie Mellon, Integrated Innovation Institute, in service of Prof. Stuart Evans (www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-evans/25/571/588) University of California, Berkeley, LAUNCH: The UC Berkeley Startup Competition, http://launch.berkeley.edu/ AngelList: https://angel.co/david-koehn

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