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David Clarke

Technology Investor

County Dublin

Overview 

David Clarke is a seasoned Technology Investor based in County Dublin, with a strong background in SaaS and Enterprise Software. Notable highlights include serving as the Chief Technology Officer and Senior VP Engineering at Workday, as well as co-founding Cape Clear Software and leading as Senior VP of Products. Currently, David Clarke is the Managing Partner at Stinson Beach Partners and has invested in a range of successful companies like Deed and Localyze, focusing on stages such as Series A and Seed in sectors like Consumer Internet and Enterprise.

Work Experience 

AV

Acadian Ventures

  • Senior Advisor

    2022 - Current

Acadian Ventures is the first early-stage venture capital firm specializing in the future of work

acadianventures.com
FV

Frontline Ventures

  • Venture Partner

    2021

    As a Venture Partner at Frontline, David works with the Frontline team and portfolio with a particular focus on technology strategy and product team scaling. https://www.frontline.vc/people/david-clarke/

K

Keelvar

  • Investor and Board Chair

    2021

SB

Stinson Beach Partners

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    Seed/Angel investments include: Pigment, Omnea, Light Inc, Keelvar, Kota, Procuros, Payslip, Techwolf, Humaans, Blink, Shackle, Utmost (acquired by Beeline), Weld, Vespucci analytics, Localyze, Kastus, SmartRecruiters, Breyta, Deed, Unleash, Tech tree, AccessOwl, Plato, WorkFlex, JetHR, Comstruct, Glaut, Jupi, Weve, ConductAI, Finch.

Ho

Houses of the Oireachtas

  • Political Advisor

    2020 - 2024

W

Workday

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2019 - 2020

    David Clarke is chief technology officer at Workday, and is responsible for defining and communicating the strategic direction of the company’s technology.

  • Senior VP Engineering

    2008 - 2019

    Having joined Workday via the acquisition of Cape Clear in 2008, I worked in a variety of senior roles, and ran the engineering group for 7 years from 2012-2019. This encompassed the development, operations, infrastructure, integrations, analytics and security organizations. During this time, the team grew from about 150 people to about 1500. Our transaction workload scaled from <1MM/month to >20Bn/month, and our ARR scaled from about US$5M to US$5B. As a member of the SMT, I was intimately involved in all aspects of the company's technical and business operations as we scaled from our first customers to being a large public company.

Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities.

Raised $230,550,000.00 from Janus Capital Group, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price and Bezos Expeditions.

workday.com

Cape Clear Software

  • co-founding CEO, Senior VP Products

    1999 - 2008

    Co-founded Cape Clear- an integration middleware vendor and a leading provider of ESBs (Enterprise service Bus). Cape Clear raised over $50MM in investment capital from leading VC firms including Accel and Greylock, and grew to a multi-$M ARR before being acquired by Workday in 2008.

IONA Technologies

  • Senior Product Manager

    1996 - 1999

    Worked as a PM in IONA during its hyper-growth phase, up to and including what was then the 2nd biggest software IPO (after Netscape) in 1998. Managed its flagship 'Orbix' CORBA middleware product and introduced a number of new products to market.

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shell

  • business analyst

    1993 - 1996

Shell Oil Company is an oil and gas company that explores and produces energy products.

shell.us

Education 

Investments 

Glaut

Pre Seed

Total funding: $1M

Kota

Pre Seed

Total funding: $8M

Jet HR

Pre Seed

Total funding: $5M

Shackle

Seed

Total funding: $21M

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