Investor and serial entrepreneur with over ten years venture capital experience as a general partner in Anthemis, with $1.5b AUM. I now focus on product design and market analysis for deep tech startups, corporates and investors, at F2N.

25+ years operational experience in technology, in Geneva, London, San Francisco and New York, with a focus on product design and market strategy. Co-founder of MRL Ventures, where I led the project which became Yelp and went public; co-founder of the first news search engine, Moreover, which was acquired by Verisign and co-founder of Origins, the first online genealogy service, acquired by D.C. Thomson. 

Qualified architect in the UK, I began my career working for Norman Foster. I co-created the internet standard, RSS which is the technology that underlies online syndication, including podcasts and developed several key components of social networks. I survived an 800ft fall in a climbing accident, as a teenager and have lived life to the full, since.

Om Malik: “David has a nasty habit of predicting the future before anyone else”.