DH

David Horowitz

Founder & CEO at Touchdown Ventures

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Lecturer

    2024

    Teaching Finance 430: Entrepreneurial Finance (venture capital/private equity) to undergraduate BBA students

  • Founder & CEO

    2014

    Touchdown manages venture capital funds for large corporations. Touchdown was recognized by Global Corporate Venturing for having both established and managed the most corporate venture funds to date. We currently partner with over twenty large corporations including Kellogg's, T-Mobile US, Avery Dennison, Cencora (Formerly AmerisourceBergen), INX, Agthia, Erie Insurance, Braskem, Growmark, CHS, Allegion, Colorcon, Masco, and TEGNA, among several others.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Non-profit organization that operates the College Football Hall of Fame and promotes amateur football.

  • President

    2020

    Creator and publisher of the board game Frequent Flyer: www.frequentflyergame.com

2000 - 2014

  • Partner

    2000 - 2014

    Venture capital arm of Comcast Corporation and NBC Universal Helped to start Genacast Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Ventures

2013 - 2014

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2014

    Cybersecurity threat detection and monitoring for social networks. Founded by veteran cybersecurity team that started Ciphent.

2013 - 2014

  • Partner

    2013 - 2014

    Seed stage fund affiliated with Comcast Ventures. Genacast focuses on technology centric early stage investments in the Northeast corridor.

2012 - 2014

  • Board Observer

    2012 - 2014

    Leading marketplace for performance advertising. Started by Jeremy Bloom (former Olympic athlete and NFL football player).

2011 - 2014

  • Board Observer

    2011 - 2014

    Mobile, social monetization platform. Company originally incubated by IdeaLab and Bill Gross

2011 - 2014

  • Board Member

    2011 - 2014

    Leading aggregation of independent films for digital distribution. Company was founded by Ted Leonsis, former Vice Chairman of AOL and owner of Washington Wizards and Capitals.