Dave Mathews

Inventor, investor, and advisor in San Francisco.

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As the portfolio CTO in the Softeq Venture Studio, we take startups from all over the world to help them achieve their dreams with product development and focus.

As co-host of What's Next Wall St. a we cover trends in the stock market, security, AI and talk about the good and bad of Web3.

As a human, I'm mostly a creative with more than 70 patents granted, a hardware hacker whose team created the first consumer barcode scanner, the CueCat and created a Peer to Peer device messaging framework called NewAer. It is the future evolution of the QR code and NFC tag and is based upon a machine readable code inspiration that I worked on in 1997.

In the past, I was a founding contributor for Make Magazine, former freelance for PC Mag and industry publications. I've been a frequent technology guest host on podcasts like This Week in Startups, as well as TechTV and Revision 3 shows.

In the late 1990's, I was the Gadget Guy on the TV show Net Talk Live dropping expertise on some 300+ shows, a producer and on-air personality on G4 TV, and other broadcast news networks. As a hardware inventor, I was part of the early product development teams for Slingbox, and boxee, after being the in-house inventor at RadioShack back in the early 2000's.

In 2015-2019, I was part of the leadership team of the non-profit Big Imagination, where we brought a 747 to Burning Man. I was CTO and lead a team who built a 250,000 LED computerized gigabit network immersive 3D light show within it. Watch for the fuselage rebirth under Area15's curation in Vegas!

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    • CEO NewAer/CTO Softeq Venture