Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed,Venture

Angus Davis is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a general partner with Foundation Capital.

Angus was the founder and CEO of Upserve, a restaurant point of sale, payments, and analytics start-up that he grew to work with more than 10,000 restaurant customers. In 2020, Lightspeed Commerce acquired Upserve in the stock deal then valued at $450 million.

Before Upserve, Angus co-founded Tellme Networks in 1999, speech recognition and mobile search start-up that grew to profitability with more than $100 million in ARR and over 300 employees with over $200 million in backing. In 2007, Microsoft acquired Tellme for $800 million. Angus left Microsoft in May 2009 to start Upserve.

Before Tellme, Angus joined Netscape Communications in 1996 as the company's youngest employee at age 18. He worked in the office of the CTO and he was product manager for the flagship Web browser and the Web rendering engine ("Gecko.") He represented Netscape on the HTML and CSS standards groups and he helped establish Mozilla.org, before leaving to co-found Tellme in 1999 with Mike McCue, Netscape's VP of Technology.

In addition to his work in technology, Angus is active in education reform.