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Managing Partner, Head of Venture Investing

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Advice for founders

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Specializes in

Tokenized and decentralized financial markets, blockchain-based payments, yield, real-money gaming, blockchain infrastructure, tokenized capital formation

Cares about

Working with extraordinary founders with limitless ambition aiming to disrupt traditional industries.

Education

Computer Science Engineering, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering & Applied Science

Experience

Product Manager and Co-Founder of Apple Music Group, Co-Founder MyPlay, CEO eMusic, Partner at Venrock for 13 years

Notable Achievements

Led Series A/B rounds of Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever for $1B), investments in Veda, Ether.Fi, Li.Fi, Hello Moon, co-founded Apple Music, 18 years of venture investing.

Interests

Drumming, DJing, tennis, fitness, family, travel, learning

Preferred channels for outreach

Warm intros are always best — surely we know some of the same people?

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Monkey Tilt
Consumer

Next-gen crypto casino

Year
2025
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series B
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Veda
Onchain Finance & Financial Infrastructure

Leading on-chain vault provider

Year
2025
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
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Zoot
Consumer

Studio and AI development platform for Real Money Gaming

Year
2025
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Ether.Fi
Onchain Finance & Financial Infrastructure

Ethereum liquid restaking

Year
2024
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
Visit Website
Raad
Other

On-demand aerial intelligence

Year
2024
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website
Hello Moon
Blockchain Infrastructure

Blockchain infrastructure provider

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
Visit Website
Li.Fi
Blockchain Infrastructure

Cross-chain liquidity aggregator for financial instutions

Year
2023
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Series A
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Flow
Blockchain Infrastructure

Layer 1 for consumer DeFi

Year
2021
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
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Dapper Labs
Consumer

Consumer blockchain applications

Year
2018
Deal lead + sponsor
Stage
Seed
Visit Website

David's Insights

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The Long Arc of Crypto
November 14, 2025
Thesis
The Future of Real-Money Gaming is Mobile…and Onchain
What’s Next: Growing the CoinFund Investment Team
What’s Next: Growing the CoinFund Investment Team
September 27, 2024
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