David Cancel
Angel Investor at Agency AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Cancel is a serial founder and angel investor with 18 years building and scaling software companies from startup to acquisition and IPO. He founded and led multiple category-defining ventures—most recently Drift and Performable—and has since transitioned into strategic advising, board roles (including Olo and the Whitney Museum) and scouting investments with Sequoia. Known for turning product-led growth into repeatable machine-scale businesses, he combines deep product, engineering and go-to-market experience with hands-on operational leadership. Based in New York, he currently advises AI startups and sits on several boards while investing through scout and angel channels. A less obvious strength is his pattern of creating assets that attract strategic acquirers across advertising, analytics, privacy and conversational SaaS, demonstrating a knack for building companies that are both technically robust and commercially acquisitive.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
wordpress7
perf6
hubspot-api5
javascript4
browser3
php2
ios1
ios-application1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Driftt/drift-wordpress
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
Drift integration with Wordpress
Contributions:2 releases, 25 commits, 4 PRs in 5 months
wordpress
dcancel/freshzen
Jun 2008 - Dec 2008
Contributions:5 commits in 5 months
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