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

Founder Interview: Daniel Kim & Jay Lee, AuditBoard
If they weren’t busy running L.A.-based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos,...

Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft
Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students,...

Founder Interview: Susanne Mitschke, co-founder and CEO, MindMate
Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living...

Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark
If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...

How to Become a Midas VC: Just The Data
By William Hsu The annual Forbes Midas list just came out. Which reminded me that I put together the following data for last years list for a blog post...

Encyclopedias are moving to the blockchain. Everipedia, joined by Wikipedia’s co-founder, is leading the charge.
Mucker portfolio company Everipedia, the “encyclopedia of everything,” announced today that it is creating the world’s first encyclopedia on the blockchain, and that Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger has joined...