# David Goldberg

> David Goldberg is a seed investor at Alpaca VC (New York) backing Software and Retail. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-goldberg/3/a97/56
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/davidrgoldberg
- Website: https://medium.com/@davidrgoldberg

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 20% |
| Retail | 2 | 13% |
| Home Decor | 2 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 13% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 73% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foyer | Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership | $6.2M | Seed | Jan 24, 2025 |  |
| North.cloud | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Ocean Freight Exchange | 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 |  |
| Renoviso | Renoviso is a service transforming how homeowners complete renovation projects through technology, transparency, and customer experience. Homeowners can get customized online pricing on products from the best brands in home improvement, including professional measurement and installation. It handles the entire renovation process through completion,all at a great price. This approach has produced exceptional customer reviews from homeowners throughout eastern New England in Renoviso’s initial product categories, which include windows, doors, and hardwood flooring. | $7M | Series B | Jun 21, 2018 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alma Mundi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alma-mundi-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forefront Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forefront-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Alpaca VC

VC Fund · New York, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Alpaca VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Fetner | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-fetner |
| David Goldberg | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-goldberg-7 |
| Ray Updyke | VP Operations & Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ray-updyke |
| Ryan Freedman | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-freedman |
| Aubrie Pagano | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aubrie-pagano |

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## FAQ

### What does David Goldberg invest in?

David Goldberg invests primarily in Software, Retail and Home Decor startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Goldberg last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Goldberg closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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