David Bender
Senior Associate
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Bender is a deep-tech venture investor and former chemical engineering researcher with 16 years of experience spanning startups, strategy consulting, and industrial R&D. At Fathom Fund he leads technical and financial diligence, sourcing, and portfolio management, drawing on hands-on materials development from a PhD candidacy at USC where he designed fast-cure, field-repairable composite processes later presented to Boeing and the US Navy. Previously at BCG he shaped growth and operations for energy and aerospace clients, and as a founder won the MIT/USC entrepreneurship prize to commercialize advanced materials. His early career at TOTAL, Shell, Baker Hughes and TETRA combined lab innovation with data-driven tooling that delivered measurable cost and productivity gains. David blends rigorous technical modeling, program leadership, and go-to-market sensibility—unusually bridging military, academic, and commercial ecosystems to accelerate deep-tech commercialization.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLondon School of Economics and Political Science
English, French
Github Skills (140)
fill10
converting10
ply10
c1110
recovery10
routers10
3d-models10
opengl10
abaqus10
protobuf10
slicer10
qualcomm10
gcode10
collada10
cnc-controller10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
codehero/benejson
Feb 2010 - Nov 2021
benejson JSON parsing library
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 11 years 11 months
parsingparserjson-parsingjsonparsing-library
codehero/uwstr
May 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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