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David Magerman
VCManaging Partner and Co-Founder, Differential Ventures
Former Renaissance Technologies quant turned enterprise VC
New York, NY
Pre-SeedSeed
AIDataEnterprise SaaSInfrastructureFintech
Background
David Magerman is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Differential Ventures. He spent 22 years at Renaissance Technologies, where he helped found the equities trading group and built core trading, simulation, and estimation software. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, where his thesis on natural language parsing as statistical pattern recognition was an early large-scale data-driven NLP system.
Investment Thesis
Pre-seed and seed investments in ethical, data-driven enterprise AI/ML companies with a rigorous quantitative approach to evaluating technical depth.
Investment Focus
Stages
Pre-SeedSeed
Sectors
AIDataEnterprise SaaSInfrastructureFintech
Based in: New York, NY (North America)
Last updated: Jun 11, 2026