avid is a founding partner at Lobby Capital. For the last 30 years he has worked closely with technology entrepreneurs to help them build transformative businesses.
Prior to founding Lobby Capital, David was a partner at August Capital for 20 years. David invests in a broad range of software companies, including enterprise application, infrastructure, and SaaS businesses (e.g, Splunk, Fastly, GitLab), financial technology companies (e.g., Bill.com, WePay, PayNearMe), and consumer services (e.g., Evite and Ebates). David has an eclectic educational background. He received an BA from Stanford in Computer Music, an M.Phil in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship and venture capital at Stanford Business School and Harvard Law School. David started the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog, as well as the first venture capital podcast, VentureCast.
He has served as the Tech Curator for the TED Conference in Vancouver and was the co-creator and host of TEDxStanford for a decade. David has received Deloitte’s Venture Capitalist of the Year award and has been honored by Forbes Magazine as a member of its Midas List of top Venture Capitalists. David splits his time between New York City in Palo Alto with his wife Pamela and their dogs Teddy and Auggie. They have four grown children. David serves on the board of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, served on the board of GLAAD (a leading LGBTQ rights organization) for more than a decade, and is the chair of the Stanford Alumni Association.
