David Gorodyansky is an American entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the CEO of AnchorFree, a company he co-founded in 2005 with Eugene Malobrodsky.
AnchorFree is the developer of Hotspot Shield, a virtual private network provider.
In 2019, Fast Company named AnchorFree the 13th most innovative company in the world and the #1 most innovative security company.
AnchorFree's most recent fundraising round (2018) brought in $295 million, bringing total funding to $358 million.
Gorodyansky has also invested in GlobeIn, an online exotic arts and crafts marketplace, and Venturocket, an job matching website.
He serves as chairman of both AnchorFree and GlobeIn.Gorodyansky is a writer who has contributed to Forbes and Inc.
Magazine.
He is also a proponent of social entrepreneurship.