David Goldberg
General Partner @ Alpaca VC
New York, United States
David Goldberg is a General Partner at Alpaca VC. He previously worked at Minibar Delivery as a Member of the Board of Directors. David Goldberg attended Fordham University School of Law, Fordham Gabelli School of Business, and the University of Miami Herbert Business School.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
Last updated:
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Industries David Goldberg invests in
Stages David Goldberg invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (19%)
- Retail 2 (13%)
- E-Commerce 2 (13%)
- Home Decor 2 (13%)
- Information Technology 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (69%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
Country
- United States 10 (63%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
Investments
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Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership | $6.2M / Seed / Jan 24, 2025 | |
| North helps companies automate their AWS savings. By connecting to our analytics engine companies can quickly spot their cost savings opportunities based on their real life cloud usage trends. North then automates the best discounting possible for those products while making sure customers never pay for an unused discount commitment again. | $2.3M / Seed / Jun 20, 2024 | ||
| EarlyDay connects employers and job seekers to make the hiring and job search process. To make hiring and job searching quicker and simpler, bring companies and job seekers together. It offers based on commuting time, pay and benefits, educational philosophies, and other factors, it assists in finding the ideal job. | $3.3M / Seed / Sep 02, 2022 | ||
| Swoops develops and creates a basketball simulation game with the help of blockchain technology. It allows users to create, manage, and build teams and their skills, and compete with other teams while earning digitally. | $3.5M / Seed / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Firstbase is a remote work management platform. They make IT and HR teams' jobs by providing employees with the technology, furniture, and equipment they need to conduct remote work. Their management services include onboarding, order, asset, and inventory management. | $50M / Series B / Mar 25, 2022 | ||
| Firstbase is a remote work management platform. They make IT and HR teams' jobs by providing employees with the technology, furniture, and equipment they need to conduct remote work. Their management services include onboarding, order, asset, and inventory management. | $2.1M / Seed / Aug 22, 2020 | ||
| Emerge is a consumer technology company building a multi-sensory communication platform to bridge distance and time—through touch, sight, sound, and brain activity, powered by emotion AI, to allow users to digitize and transmit their emotions. With over 2 billion people worldwide feeling disconnected from others—one of the greatest life hazards ofour generation—it's time for a new communication platform that focuses on what really matters: our emotional connection with others.The first step is to introduce touch to virtual interactions—via TVs, AR, and VR displays. Emerge Wave-series is the anchor product line for the emotion AI. The patented consumer device emits precise ultrasonic forcefields that can be physically felt with bare hands—imagine a “virtual high five” or holding hands across the globe, with no gloves or controllers needed.We are proud of our impact-focused and diverse team—70% of us are immigrants and first-generation Americans. We are former entrepreneurs and industry veterans who have developed and launched products in the fields of consumer electronics, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, gaming, and space exploration.Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Emerge is backed by venture capital firms including M13 and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and other notable investors such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment, Twitch, and Riot Games. | $11.9M / Series A / Nov 13, 2019 | ||
| TOOLBX is a leading provider of modern AI-powered software built specifically for building material suppliers. Our platform streamlines critical workflows like payments, credit applications, and order entry—empowering suppliers to operate more efficiently and serve their contractor customers better. With tools like AI-driven order ingestion,digital credit applications, and a centralized customer portal, TOOLBX helps eliminate manual processes, reduce errors, and accelerate cash flow. Trusted by top dealers across North America, TOOLBX is driving the digital transformation of the LBM industry. | Seed / Oct 30, 2018 | ||
| Perch they provides Insights for our merchandising and marketing products, digital content, and sales conversion for real-time shopper marketing. | $2M / Seed / Jul 17, 2018 | ||
| Ocean Freight Exchange is the world-leading, data-centric AI platform disrupting the $1.3 trillion bulk shipping industry to increase productivity and business value for ship owners, charterers and brokers while reducing carbon footprint. We are backed by the top venture capital firms including Alpaca, NextView (the Co-Founder of LinkedIn),Accomplice, and Foundation Capital (an early investor in both Uber and Netflix). We are the 1st place winner in the Singapore government's Pier71 AI competition 2018. | $3.3M / Seed / Jul 01, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Alpaca VC
Alpaca VC leads Seed rounds in founders that are reshaping the real world. We believe that layering technology over daily life transforms how the real world works, so we invest in the people, products, and processes that power commerce in the physical world. Led by a diverse team of company builders, operators, and analytical thinkers, Alpacadevelops a repeatable playbook to help its entrepreneurs most efficiently progress from Seed to Series A.
Alpaca VC Contacts
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Daniel Fetner
General Partner
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David Goldberg
General Partner
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Ray Updyke
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Ryan Freedman
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Aubrie Pagano
General Partner
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