# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-mcclure
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:01:58.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-mcclure"
name: "Dave McClure"
slug: "dave-mcclure"
description: "David \"Dave\" McClure is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who founded the business accelerator 500 Startups and served as its CEO until his resignation in 2017. He founded Practical Venture Capital soon after, a new venture capital fund that would continue to work with companies he previously funded through 500 Startups."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_McClure_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.579017333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/davemcclure"
    handle:    "davemcclure"
sources:
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    title: "戴夫·麦克卢尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Макклюр, Дейв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديف مكلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديف مكلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McClure"
    title: "Dave McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%85%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "دیو مک کلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McClure"
    title: "Dave McClure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3611266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump