Primary Job Title Founding & Managing Partner Primary Organization Advance Venture Partners
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As David T. ibnAle
Investor Type Investor Stage
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David ibnAle is the Founding and Managing Partner of Advance Venture Partners. He has over thirty years of experience as an investor in small and mid-sized growth companies in the technology, tech-enabled services and health care sectors. Prior to co-founding AVP in 2015, Mr. ibnAle was a Managing Director of TPG Growth, the growth equity and
middle-market investment platform of TPG, where he led the firm’s global technology investing effort. Prior to joining TPG Growth, he was a Partner at Francisco Partners, which he joined at inception in 1999. Mr. ibnAle’s first investing role was as a member of the investment team at Summit Partners, which he joined in 1996 after beginning his career in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley.
In addition to board roles at a number of AVP’s portfolio companies, including Midi Health, Boulder Care, Curology, Affinity, Alto Solutions and Morning Consult, Mr. ibnAle is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ultra Clean Holdings (Nasdaq: UCTT). Mr. ibnAle chairs the Board of Trustees of The San Francisco Foundation, is a member of the Board of Trustees of Children’s Day School of San Francisco and is a member of the Board of Directors of the BEA Venture Fund.
Mr. ibnAle received an AB in Public Policy and an AM in International Development Policy from Stanford University and received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
