Doug Chertok

Doug Chertok

Venture Partner

Doug Chertok sources new investments in the New York City area and advises Dace’s portfolio companies on their growth and business development.  Doug currently serves on the board of YieldMo in the Dace portfolio.

Doug has founded, advised and invested in early-stage companies for over 20 years.  He is the founder of Vast Ventures a seed fund investing in digital media and marketing companies such as Bidclix (sold to Aquantive, now Microsoft), Fotolog (sold to Hi-Media), Quigo (sold to Time Warner), BarkBox, Conductor, Fab, FirstFuel, kiip, klout, meetup, Moat, OpenCoin, OpenX, SendWordNow, simplymeasured, styleseat, YieldMo and ZocDoc.