| Birth Name: | David Ellis Siminoff |
| Birth Place: | California, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Entrepreneur, Investor |
| Years Active: | 1994–present |
| Education: | B.A., Master of Fine Arts, USC Film School, 1989 MBA, Stanford Business School, 1993 |
| Children: | 2 |
David E. Siminoff is a Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur.
Siminoff graduated with Honors from Stanford University, where he was a member of the varsity swimming & diving team, which went on to win multiple Pacific-10 Conference and NCAA Championships. He later earned an MFA from the USC Film School in 1989 and an MBA from Stanford Business School in 1993.
Having founded global syndicate barter company EastNet in Moscow and Eastern Europe, Siminoff graduated from business school and joined Capital Research. At Capital Research he focused on the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors, and his fund was an early investor in Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, PayPal, and America Online.[1]
Siminoff later served as the chief executive officer of Spark Networks, a publicly traded firm which is the parent company of JDate. He was a general partner at Venrock, the Rockefeller family's venture capital arm.[2]
In 2008 the Siminoffs co-founded Shmoop, an online educational technology publishing company that specializes in test preparation materials and study guides.[3] Siminoff remains as Chief Creative Officer of Shmoop.
Siminoff and his wife live in Los Altos, California. They met while students at Stanford Business School.[4] They have two children.[5]
Siminoff is an active pilot, formerly sharing flight duties with Eclipse Aviation partner Mark Pincus, the founder of Zynga.[6]