David Maxwell

I am based in Los Angeles where I focus on helping visual artists and angel investing. I started an artist residency called Flower Residency.

My background is I was early at Square on product. I worked on the onboarding flow, the iPhone and Android app, digital receipts and more.

I invest in early stage tech startups, typically those with revenue, but I'll back preproduct ventures with the right founders and vision. I specialize in structuring efficient product teams for maximum impact and am available to consult day to day to get your team on track.

Investments

• Faire — wholesale products for retailers
• FairArt — bid and offer system for art
• Fleetworks — AI powered carrier rep for logistics
• Hyphen — automated food production system
• Plexus — telemetry monitoring platform for hardware teams
• Reforge — expert training for product teams
• Arternal — sales software for your art gallery
• SmartStamp — digital biometric passport for artworks
• Public Goods — DTC simple essentials
• Dakota — banking platform backed by stablecoins
• Selector AI — AI full stack observer
• RegScale — automated governance, risk and compliance
• SMBX — small business bond marketplace

Exits

• Graphite — ship higher quality software, faster Acquired by Cursor, December 2025
• Rexera — automated real estate transactions Acquired by RealPage, July 2025

Sunsets

• Unique Board — sculpture art editions
• Walden — coaching business software suite
• Artland — contemporary art marketplace

Testimonials

David was a fantastic angel and advisor who rolled up his sleeves and dove into the day-to-day with our product team. We leveraged his valuable lessons from building products at Square during its incredible growth to forge a much stronger product and engineering process that perfectly aligns with our agentic, AI-driven workflow vision.

Vishrut Malhotra — CEO and Co-Founder at Rexera