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

5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph

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5 Tactics for Improving Startup Culture

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Mucker Academy: Pricing Models for the Enterprise with Jim Howard

In this episode of Mucker Academy, cloud software executive Jim Howard sits down with the MuckerLab accelerator to share his 15+ years of experience in developing and selling products and...

The Cryptic VC’s Guide to Saying “No” on Investments

by William Hsu, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mucker VCs say a lot of cryptic stuff when we pass on an investment – partially because it make us appear smart,...

LA’s Starring Role as China Ramps up Investment in Media and Technology

LA has rapidly become the venue of choice for many Chinese investors seeking opportunities in media and technology. They are seeing exactly what I saw when I began to spend...

Mucker Academy: Kevin Diamond, CTO at The Black Tux

This is the second in our Mucker Academy video series, where we invite leaders from the tech community to speak with MuckerLab companies. You can find the first video here....

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