# David Magerman

> David Magerman is a seed investor at Differential Ventures backing Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Differential Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/differential-ventures)
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-magerman-954b25174/
- Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Magerman

David Magerman is a co-founder and managing partner at Differential Ventures. Previously, he spent the entirety of his career at Renaissance Technologies, widely recognized as the best quantitative hedge fund management company in the world. He helped found the equities trading group at Renaissance, joining the group in its earliest days,playing a lead role in designing and building the trading, simulation, and estimation software. On an extended garden leave from quantitative finance, he is looking to use his data science, software development, and statistical modeling expertise to help Israeli startups succeed in the global marketplace.David holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University where his thesis on Natural Language Parsing as Statistical Pattern Recognition was an early and successful attempt to use large-scale data to produce fully-automated syntactic analysis of text. David also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences and Information from the University of Pennsylvania.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 53% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 40% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 33% |
| Quantum Computing | 2 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 4 | 27% |
| United States | 4 | 27% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HATCH | HATCH is the first of its kind Giving Intelligence Platform. An AI-powered portal for Fundraisers, Marketers and Volunteers to streamline and Maximize their impact. A new home for a new world of giving! HATCH unifies expanded-data to create the complete human profile and applies proprietary algorithms to recommend the most timely, personalized andeffective methods of outreach. For the first time, you’ll know what makes your donors, customers, and employees tick, click and give. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 09, 2024 |  |
| Metafold 3D | Metafold 3D is a Toronto-based B2B SaaS startup that drives new applications for industrial 3D printing through our cloud-based Design for Additive Manufacturing software. Our lattice technology helps engineers achieve reductions of up to 85% in the amount of material required for products in aerospace, medical, automotive and consumer goods. Wealso help them bring those products to market faster by dramatically reducing the preprocessing required for additive manufacturing. | $1.8M | Seed | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| Agnostiq | Agnostiq is a quantum and high performance computing company | $9.1M | Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Data Robot (Formerly Agnostiq) | Agnostiq is the company behind Covalent, a cloud agnostic, entirely pythonic, and infinitely scalable computing platform providing on-demand, serverless access to AI infrastructure such as Nvidia H100s and A100s. With Covalent, users can scale to any arbitrary number of compute resources with a single line of code. Covalent is available Open Sourceor as a Cloud-hosted / Enterprise offering. Learn more at www.covalent.xyz. | $9.1M | Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Databento | Databento eliminates tens of thousands in upfront data expenses per dataset, while giving you the instant flexibility to pick up real-time full exchange feeds or terabytes of historical data when you need it.Whether you're a Fortune 500 bank or a single-person startup, we scale with your budget and needs and deliver the same cutting edgeperformance and data integrity. | $31.8M |  | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| HATCH | HATCH is the first of its kind Giving Intelligence Platform. An AI-powered portal for Fundraisers, Marketers and Volunteers to streamline and Maximize their impact. A new home for a new world of giving! HATCH unifies expanded-data to create the complete human profile and applies proprietary algorithms to recommend the most timely, personalized andeffective methods of outreach. For the first time, you’ll know what makes your donors, customers, and employees tick, click and give. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2022 |  |
| Agnostiq | Agnostiq is a quantum and high performance computing company | $2M | Seed | May 13, 2021 |  |
| Data Robot (Formerly Agnostiq) | Agnostiq is the company behind Covalent, a cloud agnostic, entirely pythonic, and infinitely scalable computing platform providing on-demand, serverless access to AI infrastructure such as Nvidia H100s and A100s. With Covalent, users can scale to any arbitrary number of compute resources with a single line of code. Covalent is available Open Sourceor as a Cloud-hosted / Enterprise offering. Learn more at www.covalent.xyz. | $2M | Seed | May 13, 2021 |  |
| HATCH | HATCH is the first of its kind Giving Intelligence Platform. An AI-powered portal for Fundraisers, Marketers and Volunteers to streamline and Maximize their impact. A new home for a new world of giving! HATCH unifies expanded-data to create the complete human profile and applies proprietary algorithms to recommend the most timely, personalized andeffective methods of outreach. For the first time, you’ll know what makes your donors, customers, and employees tick, click and give. | $350K | Angel | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Databand | Databand provides a software platform for agile machine learning development. It helps data scientists and engineers build solutions fast, iterate easily, and productize improvements. Today, too many obstacles to fast ML development and release exist. Old processes saturate the classic software market with DevOps and CI/CD tools that helpteams move code from dev to production, but ML development is different and requires specialized solutions. It addresses this gap with a framework that provides cross-team standardization and complete visibility for all project stakeholders. The company is currently in use by a wide range of advanced ML teams, from publicly traded enterprises to startups. | $14.5M | Series A | Dec 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Green Egg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greeneggventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Scout Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scout-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tensility Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tensility-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiferes Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiferes-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Differential Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Differential Ventures invest in b2b tech startups with a unique advantage in data science and machine intelligence that will transform the way businesses operate. It is a seed-stage vc fund that invests in b2b data-oriented technology solutions.

5 contacts available at Differential Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daria Barkai | Administrative Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daria-auerbach |
| David Magerman | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-magerman |
| Melissa Demma | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melissa-demma |
| Ned Berman | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ned-berman |
| Nicholas Adams | Managing Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-adams-ab2e |

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## FAQ

### What does David Magerman invest in?

David Magerman invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Magerman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Magerman closed in Apr 2024. 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.

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