
David Kressel
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- Full Name
- David Kressel
- Title
- Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, NotaryCam (previously VP of Finance & Operations)
- Firm
- NotaryCam (acquired by Stewart Information Services in 2020/2021)
- Firm Type
- Angel Investor (individual); operating executive at a legaltech/proptech company
- Investment Stage
- Seed
- Check Size
- Not publicly disclosed (individual angel checks)
- Target Company Profile
- Early-stage software startups, generally consumer apps and business/productivity software — areas aligned with his own operating experience
- Sector Focus
- SaaS / business & productivity software, consumer internet, proptech/real estate technology, fintech
- Geographic Focus
- United States (Southern California / Los Angeles area)
- Location
- Santa Monica / Los Angeles (Culver City), California, United States
Background
David Kressel is a finance and operations executive best known as the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of NotaryCam, a pioneer in remote online notarization (RON) and mortgage eClosing. He began his career roughly two decades ago as an equity analyst at Fidelity Investments, where he covered technology and healthcare stocks. After business school he worked at a medical-device-focused private equity firm, and later moved through consulting and consumer-app ventures before a stint in the real estate settlement industry exposed him to the antiquated, paper-based world of notarization.
That insight led him to help build NotaryCam (launched 2012, founded alongside Rick Triola), where he has driven the company's finance and operations. He spearheaded the launch of eClose360®, NotaryCam's remote eClosing platform for mortgage transactions, oversaw releases of the company's enterprise-grade online notarization platform, and helped expand its footprint to serve customers in all 50 U.S. states and more than 70 countries.
Kressel holds a Bachelor's degree with Honors in Chemistry from Harvard University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In 2018 he was named to HousingWire's HW Insiders list, which recognizes operational "unsung heroes" in the mortgage and housing industry, citing his operational expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion for innovation.
Separately from his operating role, Kressel is an active angel investor, backing early-stage startups with personal capital in exchange for equity.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests as an individual angel, typically at the seed stage, writing personal checks into early-stage software companies.
- Sector interests skew toward business/productivity software (SaaS) and consumer apps — domains where he has hands-on operating and founding experience.
- His operating background (finance analyst → PE → consumer apps → proptech/legaltech operator) suggests he brings finance, operations, and go-to-market scaling expertise, not just capital.
- Likely values founders who are modernizing antiquated, offline industries with software — the exact pattern behind NotaryCam (digitizing notarization/real estate closings).
- No publicly stated formal fund, check-size range, or written thesis was found; treat him as an operator-angel who invests selectively rather than a full-time professional investor.
Notable Investments
- FunnelFire — A sales-intelligence / business-productivity software startup; Kressel's known angel investment (reported latest activity around August 12, 2014). The company has since been reported as closed.
- NotaryCam — As co-founder, his primary "investment" of time and capital; the company raised a ~$750K seed round (circa 2014) and was later acquired by Stewart Information Services / Stewart Title (announced December 2020), a notable exit.
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