David Spector
Founder of ThirdLove
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder/CEO
2024 - Current
Nanotrace combined the best attributes of chemotherapy, nanoparticle delivery mechanisms, and the latest advancements in gene therapeutics to build a revolutionary oncology platform. Based on our team's decades of research in these fields, and the maturation of nanomedicine, our product is a novel targeting platform which recognizes cancer cells by its very blueprint – gene expression. We are founded by Dr. Will Briley, PhD Molecular Biology from Northwestern; Dr. Paul Weiss, renowned nanoscientist, distinguished UCLA professor, and a UC Presidential Chair; David Spector, an experienced founder and formerly of Sequoia Capital, Google, and MIT; and, Chief Medical Advisor, Dr. Krishna Komanduri, Department Chief & Head of Hematology & Oncology, UCSF. Join us, we're hiring!
Chairman, Co-Founder
2023
Co-Founder, Co-CEO & President
2012 - 2023
We have grown ThirdLove to being the 5th largest online intimates brand in the United States and today profitably growing. The brand is driven by design powered by technology. We're building a scalable online commerce platform and accessible brand which revolutionizes this $30bn+ market. 8 issued patents with more pending, we have a strong focus on tech & R&D, which I oversee, along with logistics and supply chain (we ship thousands of orders a day across three fulfillment centers with a sizable supply chain covering four different countries producing what is considered to be a highly complex product). We are hiring!
ThirdLove is a women’s lifestyle brand that offers a range of lingerie and underwear.
Raised $80,600,000.00 from Second Avenue Capital Partners.
Member Board Of Directors
2019
January 2023 — unanimously re-elected to another 3-year term on the board
Interactive Advertising Bureau empowers media and marketing industries to thrive in the digital economy.
Angel Investor and Advisor
2012
Intro.co (advisor/investor) Function Health Anduril (late stage investment, direct investment not secondary) BetterHelp Relativity Space (advisor & investor) Boom Aerospace Checkr Diamond Foundry Attentive On Demand Pharmaceuticals Ginkgo Bioworks (ticker DNA) BetterUp Liquid Death Skydio CapChase InQuery Starday Foods Passio (advisor) Reshop Esker Philz Coffee Zoox (acq by Amazon) Jet.com (acq by Walmart) Postmates (acq by Uber) Rinse Human Interest 401k August (acq by Yale Locks/Assa Abloy) Classkick Rockbot (former board member & investor) NOTE: My love is building companies, products, and teams – not investing. I invest, often in the seed round, in friends, in people who hustle hard, show traits of never giving up, are passionate (this is so important, you see through it when a founder isn't), is culture driven in how they scale their team (hiring is hard enough, great cultures land you 10x'ers), and in markets I think are crazy (sometimes these are the markets I know 'the least' about). Feel free to reach out and I'll let you know if I'm interested or if I can help.
Board Observer & Advisor (acquired by SAP)
2011 - 2014
Roambi develops mobile business applications that enable users to access big datasets in accessible mobile formats.
Raised $48,349,999.00 from Sequoia Capital.
Partner
2010 - 2012
Early and growth stage venture capital - looking for great people and game changing ideas. Notable investments: Stella & Dot, Roambi, observer in other consumer internet and commerce co's. Invested $62 million.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Board Observer
2011 - 2012
Stella & Dot is an online social selling company offering collections of fashion jewelry, costume jewelry and accessories.
Raised $42,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital.
Regional Manager, Analytics and Enterprise
2009 - 2010
Early member of Google's B2B team before being recruited by Jeff Markowitz to join Sequoia.
Strategic Partner Development Lead, Google Checkout & Analytics
2008 - 2009
Strategic Partner Development Manager, Checkout and Product Search
2007 - 2008
Founding team member for Google's Commerce related initiatives, including Google Checkout and Google Shopping/Product Search.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Co-founder/CEO
2006 - 2008
MIT 100K. My co-founder's (two PhD's) and I brought IP and technology out of the lab and to the market, had team of four. We failed, myriad of reasons.
Co-founder
2006 - 2007