David Shim, Angel Investor

David Shim is the CEO and Co-Founder of Read AI, named as one of Inc.’s Top 16 Companies to Watch in 2025. Read AI is on a mission to deliver ‘Copilot Everywhere' and empower everyone, anywhere, to seamlessly integrate work AI into meetings, messaging, email, CRM, cloud storage, and search. He was a former CEO of Foursquare, former CEO of Placed, and former Director of Operations at Quantcast. David is also an angel investor with at least 18 personal investments and over 20 other investments through syndicates and special purpose vehicles. Some of his direct investments are in: ▪ Boundry (2024) ▪ Zaaz (2024) ▪ SpeechLabs (2023) ▪ Haulio (2021) ▪ Spenmo (2021) ▪ Alcove (2021) ▪ Equi (2021) ▪ Sparkplug (2021) ▪ MikMak (2020) ▪ Foursquare (2019) ▪ Verishop (2019) ▪ Charmed AI (2024) wound down in 2024 ▪ Coscreen (2021) acquired by Datadog (2022) ▪ Orgspace (2021) wound down in 2023 ▪ AutoDevTech (2020) wound down in 2022 ▪ Neyborly (2020) wound down in 2022 ▪ Ca$h (2019, 2021) wound down in 2023 ▪ Formlogic (2019) wound down in 2024