Team

David Lane,

General Partner,
Information Technology

David Lane has, for the past 27 years, created, built and financed information technology companies. During the past 20 years, he has directly managed venture capital funds totaling in excess of $600 million.

Prior to becoming a managing director of ONSET, David co-founded Diamondhead Ventures in June 2000 and has led the firm's investments in Danger Inc. (acquired by Microsoft), Entercept Security Technologies (acquired by McAfee), Truviso and UPEK.

Prior to Diamondhead Ventures, David was one of the senior venture capital investment officers at the Harvard Management Company, where he focused on making direct investments in seed to later stage opportunities in the information technology sector. During his investment career, David has sponsored more than 20 investments in the information technology software, semiconductor and services areas. Some of his prior venture capital investments include: Harmonic, Inc. (IPO), TriQuint Semiconductor (IPO), NexGen (IPO), Viewlogic Systems (IPO) and Harbridge Merchant Services (acquired by First Data Corporation).

At ONSET Ventures, David specializes in semiconductors, infrastructure software/SAAS, information security and commercializing disruptive technologies developed at leading research universities. He currently serves on the boards of Habeas, Truviso and UPEK.

David earned a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He serves on the University of Southern California Engineering School's Board of Counselors, the Engineering School Dean's industry advisory board.