Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Dave Welsh is a partner at Adams Street Partners (ASP), a global private equity firm. At ASP, Dave is responsible for sourcing and executing late stage venture and growth equity investments in the software/SaaS enterprise infrastructure and security sectors.

Welsh serves on the boards of directors for BrightRoll, Damballa, Five9, Jaspersoft, KPG, LogRhythm, Matrixx Software, Mintigo and ThreatMetrix. Dave is also involved in the firm’s investments in APT, At-Hoc, HighTail, Rimini Street, ServiceMax and Spiceworks. Dave’s past investments include: AVG (NYSE: “AVG”), Excellergy (acquired by Brinvest), Jungo Software (acquired by NDS), MxLogic (acquired by McAfee), Solomio (acquired by Openwave), Sportgenic (acquired by Glam Media) and Vividence (acquired by Keynote). Dave’s prior work experience includes serving as executive vice president of corporate strategy and business development at McAfee, a security software company.

Prior to McAfee, Dave was a general partner of Partech International, a venture capital firm and earlier served as vice president of corporate development of Portal Software, an infrastructure software provider.

Dave holds a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, (UC Berkeley and Harvard Law Schools) and a bachelor of arts degree in international relations from UCLA.