David is a Partner at ff Venture Capital. David works on all aspects of the investment process, including fundraising, sourcing, new investments, M&A, and portfolio company acceleration. He particularly focuses on fintech broadly defined and has experience serving on the boards of Ionic, Whisk (sold to Deem), Authorea, and Earnest Research.
Prior to ff Venture Capital, David was the Founder and Chairman of Navon Partners, a data and analytics company focused on analyzing private companies for investment; Acting CEO of Vertical Key (Attendees.com), a web-based software service for managing large-scale events; Managing Director with Evalueserve, a 2,500-person global research and analytics company; and Founder and CEO of Circle of Experts, an investment research firm acquired by Evalueserve. While living in Israel, David was Founder and CEO of GoldNames, an investment bank focusing on the internet domain name asset class. He worked with Bear Stearns’ Investment Banking division in their technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team, and was a strategy consultant with Mars & Co. David has also advised in the past Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners ($1.4B fund), Birch Hill Equity Partners (C$2B fund), and other institutional investors.
David is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, the largest angel group in New York, and he led the first published studies on best practices of VC/private company deal origination and on VC portfolio acceleration.
David holds a Master of Business Administration second year honors degree from the Harvard Business School. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale with Distinction in his major.
While still in college, David built a technology consulting firm with 35 clients. He grew up in Marin County, Northern California, and learned to program on an Atari 800. David also trains in parkour, a sport which takes “crossing the chasm” literally.