4x founder

David J. Phillips

CEO at Fondo - accounting & tax for 2,000+ technology companies

Founder

Fondo· Winter 2018 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @davj

2026Venture Partner· Pioneer Fund

Founder · since 2008

Company

Pioneer Fund

Role

Venture Partner

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Fondo

Bookkeeping, tax, & tax credits on autopilot for 2,000+ startups

Winter 2018

Experience

Career

Fondo
Founder
Founder & CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – Present
2020
Pioneer Fund
Venture Partner · 2026 – Present
2026
David J. Phillips
Angel Investor · 2016 – Present
2016
YPO
Member · 2025 – Present
2025
BloomJoy
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2018 – 2019
2018
First Round Capital
Angel Track · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019
2019
Hackbright Academy
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CEO · San Francisco, CA · 2012 – 2016
2012
Sutter Studios
Software Engineer · San Francisco, California, United States · 2011 – 2012
2011
UniverCity Tutors
Founder
Founder & CEO · 2008 – 2010
2008
Deloitte
Public Accountant & Auditor · 2009 – 2010
2009
Imerys
Accountant · Santa Barbara, California Area · 2008 – 2009
2008

Bio

CEO at Fondo — accounting on autopilot for 2,000+ startups. Angel investor: Flexport, LiquidDeath, Rippling, 100+. Started my career as an accountant at Deloitte, then learned to code. I was previously co-founder & CEO at Hackbright Academy, a 3 month coding school, where we trained 1,000+ software engineers and helped them get jobs at Uber, Google, Lyft, Meta, Disney and others. We bootstrapped to $3.6M per year in revenue were acquired by Capella University (NASDAQ: $CPLA) for $18M.