David Borcsok
Investor
David Borcsok leads the Toronto office of Mucker Capital, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage start-ups across Canada and the Northeastern United States.
Before joining Mucker’s investment team, David was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Mucker after the culmination of a 6-year tenure with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), where he was responsible for managing two early-stage technology venture capital funds seeded by RBC.
Before that role, David was an Associate at TrilogyGrowth LP., a seed and series-A consumer technology fund and began his career in venture capital as a Venture Fellow with an angel investment group in New England. In more than 13 years in venture capital, he has led investments in 50+ companies, while also developing and teaching courses on capital formation and entrepreneurship at the Western University Richard Ivey School of Business, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), and the Queens University Smith School of Business.
He is a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission, a New Leader with the Carnegie Council, Founder of the Ordinary Foundation, as well as a member of the Young Leaders Circle at the Milken Institute. David graduated from Wilfrid Laurier and Brown University and is a Kauffman Fellow.
David can be reached at david at mucker dot com.
Articles by David Borcsok
Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup
This post originally appeared in TechCrunch. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity...
Thriving As A Post-Coronavirus Startup
This post originally appeared in Forbes. Startups are uncertain, high-risk exercises under any circumstance. When investors make available capital, it’s possible to mitigate some of that risk by extending runway...
COVID-19
Our team at Mucker is honored to support our portfolio through the unprecedented set of challenges facing the global community with COVID-19. Here is a compilation of products, services, and...
Venture Capital for the Rest of Us
The seed from which Mucker grew came forth from the ripples of the Great Recession As the rest of the tech world flooded toward Silicon Valley in search of millions...
William Hsu on TenOneTen’s LA Venture Podcast
Earlier this month, Will joined David Waxman and Minnie Ingersoll from TenOneTen for their fourth episode of the LA Venture podcast series. You can listen to the full episode here....
Building Company Culture, Before It’s Too Late
When I was leading my last business, I always knew that company culture was important. But what I needed to do about it and when to do it was a...