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David Koehn

Former General Partner at IA Seed Ventures

San Francisco, California, United States

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About

David Koehn is SVP of Product & Design at Skillsoft. He previously served as SVP of Product at D2L, where he led the Brightspace learning platform through its IPO, VP of Product at Udemy, and worked on Oracle's first multi-tenant SaaS learning product. He is a founder of The Batchery, a Berkeley-based accelerator, a Partner at Investor Advisor Seed Ventures, and holds academic credentials from Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins.

Experience

  1. SkillsoftSVP Product & Designcurrent2026 — present
  2. San José State UniversityFaculty Lecturercurrent2025 — present
  3. ClasseraSenior Vice President, Product & Design2024 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
  4. IA Seed VenturesGeneral Partner2021 — 2025
  5. UdemyHead of Product, Udemy Business2021 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  6. D2LSVP of Product2015 — 2021Berkeley, California
  7. OracleVP Oracle Learn Cloud & Chief Evangelist, Oracle Cloud2012 — 2015Pleasanton, California
  8. SabaDirector of Product Strategy2009 — 2012
  9. DKIChief Archtect2006 — 2009San Francisco Bay Area
  10. TailWind Solutions Inc.Founder, CEO,2001 — 2007
  11. Avantgo (became part of iAnywhere at Sybase now SAP)Director of Educational Services1999 — 2001

Skills & more

Web3BlockchainSaaS99Enterprise Software99Salesforce.com5Strategy99Leadership34Management28Generative AIChatGPTOnline MarketplaceBoard Presentations
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Languages French

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Who is David Koehn?
David Koehn is SVP of Product & Design at Skillsoft. He previously served as SVP of Product at D2L, where he led the Brightspace learning platform through its IPO, VP of Product at Udemy, and worked on Oracle's first multi-tenant SaaS learning product. He is a founder of The Batchery, a Berkeley-based accelerator, a Partner at Investor Advisor Seed Ventures, and holds academic credentials from Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins.
Where did David Koehn go to school?
David Koehn studied at The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School (Master of Business Administration - MBA, Innovation); Carnegie Mellon University (BA, English); Middlebury College (Annenberg Fellow, BSE).

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