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Inspired Capital Wants the Napkin, Not the Hype Cycle
The New York firm has nearly $900 million, fewer than 10 new bets a year and a taste for founders still sketching the future. Its wager is that operating experience and patient conviction can beat venture capital by trend cycle.
The Chicago Firm That Made a Business Out of Betting on the Boring Pipes of Finance
Spun out of one of the world's most secretive trading firms, Jump Capital has spent a decade quietly funding the infrastructure that markets, money, and software run on - and it prefers the unglamorous parts.
The Venture Firm That Bet on China Before the Map Got Complicated
GSR Ventures found Didi, Ele.me and Xiaohongshu while they were still risky ideas. Two decades later, its early-stage playbook remains intact - but the cross-border world that made it distinctive has been redrawn.
Lightspeed Built a $9 Billion Bet on the Long Game
Lightspeed has grown from an enterprise-focused Silicon Valley partnership into a global, multi-stage investor. Its newest funds reveal the real strategy: specialist judgment, patient capital and enough range to keep backing a company as the stakes rise.
David Haber
David Haber is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), based in New York City - the firm's first full-time GP in Manhattan. A Harvard-trained biochemist turned fintech operator-investor, Haber founded Bond Street (acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2017), seeded Plaid at Spark Capital, and now co-leads a16z's AI Apps fund with a focus on vertical AI, enterprise software, and financial services. Known as the 'super-connector' who bridges Wall Street and Silicon Valley, he sits on the boards of Camber, Crux, Eve, Moment, Rutter, Setpoint, and Tennr.