David Siminoff is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Shmoop, an educational website that specializes in literature, history, and poetry.

Prior to Shmoop, he was a Partner at Venrock from 2007-2009.

Prior to Venrock, he served as Chairman, President and CEO of Spark Networks, a provider of on-line personal services and the parent company to JDate.

David spent nearly a decade in investment research analysis and portfolio management at Capital Research, making early investments in Yahoo!, AOL, Amazon, and eBay. He later funded and co-founded 4INFO, a leading mobile search service.

Formerly, he founded and later sold EastNet, a syndicate barter company, enabling television stations in Eastern Europe to trade American TV programs for advertising time from major brands.

David currently serves on the boards of Crunchyroll, BlogHer, and SlideShare.

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