David Fachetti

Dave Fachetti is a Managing Director at Globespan Capital Partners and has been part of the firm's investment team since its inception. Globespan describes his primary investment focus as enterprise-targeted software companies. He also leads Globespan's CIO Advisory Board, which he helped establish.

At Globespan, Fachetti has served on the boards of BitSight, Kaminario, and Perfecto Mobile, and as a board observer at VMTurbo. His past board and investment involvement includes BitYota, Cloakware, Cloudshare, expressor software, Ingrian Networks, Luidia, OpenSpan, Q1 Labs, Reflectent, StrongView, Enterproid, Kontera, and OpenPages.

Before Globespan, Fachetti was a Principal at JAFCO Ventures, where he focused on enterprise software opportunities. Earlier, he held senior roles at Family Education Network, including Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Senior Vice President/GM of its distributed content management software business. FEN was acquired by Pearson PLC in 2000 in a cash transaction valued at $175 million.

Earlier in his career, Fachetti held senior management roles at Trans National Group, including SVP of Business Marketing, VP of Business Development, and VP/GM of Canadian operations. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers working with early-stage, high-growth companies. He received an MBA with honors from Boston University, a BBA with honors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is a CPA.

• Focuses primarily on enterprise-targeted software companies.
• Globespan says it invests in startups in IT infrastructure, SaaS, mobile, and Internet industries.
• Globespan positions itself as a hands-on venture firm helping entrepreneurs take companies to market and build the infrastructure needed to scale.
• Fachetti's own stated operating approach: "Once I commit to a deal, I am there to help in any way I can."
• Globespan's portfolio materials identify Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C as funding stages used in at least one company case study.