Dave Lin

Dave Lin is Co-Managing Partner of Unicorn Venture Partners. He is an experienced entrepreneur, operator, advisor and investor to venture-backed companies, limited partners, and several Fortune 500 corporate venture capital funds. Dave was previously the managing partner of Lin Ventures, an investment fund, and advisory firm focused on early-stage technology companies. Lin Venture's representative clients and investments include Adly, Ad Hoc Labs, eSalon, Channel Meter, Hone, PPG, Slack, TicketMob, and Wowio. Prior to Lin Ventures, Dave was the founding CFO of Maker Studios, a leading digital media studio serving the Internet's best content creators, and the founder of the online marketplace, OfferBuys.com. Dave was also a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures), Director of Strategy and Director of Local Search at PriceGrabber.com, a member of Experian's Global Strategy and Innovation team, and a technology investment banker at Montgomery & Co and UBS. Dave is an alumnus of UCLA and The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.