DH

David Horowitz

Partner at Cerity Partners 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

  • Partner

    2024

    Formerly known as Touchdown Ventures. Cerity Partners Ventures provides venture as a service to corporations, family offices, and other institutions as part of the Cerity Partners platform.

  • Founder & CEO - Touchdown Ventures

    2014 - 2024

    I served as Founder and CEO of Touchdown Ventures. Touchdown pioneered venture capital as a service by managing venture capital funds for large corporations such as Kellogg's, T-Mobile, Olympus, and many others. Touchdown merged with Cerity Partners in September 2024.

  • Lecturer

    2024

    I teach venture capital courses to undergraduate business students at Michigan Ross. Taught FIN 430 in Winter term 2024. Teaching a new course called Applied VC Fin 444 in Winter term 2026.

  • Advisor

    2024

    Advisor to the Michigan Football team on the MPower initiative. Working with student athletes on internship and mentorship opportunities. https://mgoblue.com/news/2023/6/12/football-m-power

  • 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

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