David Haber

Haber joined venture firm Spark Capital and participated in an early investment in PlaidPlaidPlaid is a financial technology company co-founded by Zach Perret and William Hockey and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides infrastructure connecting financial accounts with applications, with products spanning account verification, payments, lending and fraud prevention, and develops AI models for financial transactions. A planned acquisition by Visa was terminated in 2021.Open the full entry.⁠[1]

Haber co-founded small-business lending platform Bond Street and became CEO. Seed investor Hunter Walk recalled meeting the founders in fall 2013 and arranging seed financing at the end of that year.⁠[2]

Bond Street announced $110 million in combined equity and debt financing. Spark Capital backed its former employee’s company, and Homebrew invested again. The total was not entirely equity capital.⁠[2]

Following Goldman Sachs’ acquisition of Bond Street, Haber joined the firm and later worked in firmwide strategy on partnerships, new ventures and acquisitions.⁠[3]

Alex RampellAlex RampellAlex Rampell (Alastair Rampell) is an entrepreneur and investor, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and leader of its Apps practice. He co-founded TrialPay and Affirm and serves on the boards of Wise and Rocket Companies.Open the full entry announced Haber’s appointment as Andreessen Horowitz’s first full-time general partner in Manhattan, focusing on fintech investing.⁠[4]

Haber argued that investment opportunities often emerge between disciplines. Citing Crux’s combination of clean-energy financing knowledge and trading systems, he maintained that advantage in the AI era requires technical understanding, industry experience and knowledge of existing systems.⁠[5]

In Firm > Fund, Haber distinguished a fund focused on investment returns from a firm that continually builds competitive advantages. He argued that decentralized decisions, leadership development and operational support for portfolio companies can help an investment institution endure.⁠[6]

In a NEW ECONOMIES interview, Haber recalled looking beyond his job description and offering help directly to Marty ChavezMarty ChavezMarty Chavez (R. Martin Chavez) is a computer scientist, entrepreneur and investor, vice chairman and partner of Sixth Street, and an Alphabet director. He previously served as Goldman Sachs’ CIO, CFO and co-head of Securities, with a career spanning financial trading, software engineering and risk management.Open the full entry, Dan Dees and Renan Agus. Stephanie Cohen later invited him into firmwide strategy and asked him to define his role. He also discussed helping Goldman invest in Carta.⁠[1]

Haber argued that discussions in meetings contain valuable organizational context and that AI can turn spoken information into searchable, analyzable records. He also suggested special rules for sensitive meetings, including HR and legal matters. These were his views on technology and management.⁠[7]

Haber co-authored an announcement with Alex Rampell, Olivia MooreOlivia MooreOlivia Moore is an American venture capitalist and a partner on the investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she focuses on AI application investments; she is the byline author of a16z’s consumer generative AI app ranking, “The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps.”Open the full entry and Seema Amble describing a16z’s lead investment in Probook’s $34 million Series A. It identified technician dispatch as a central decision in home services and explained an investment thesis of expanding AI products outward from core operations.⁠[8]

Haber graduated from Harvard University in biochemical sciences. Before Spark Capital, he was a founding associate at Locus Analytics.⁠[3]

His current a16z biography lists B2B software and financial services as his focus and board roles at Camber, Crux, Eve, Moment, Rutter, Setpoint and Tennr.⁠[3]

David Haber: X: https://x.com/dhaber (opens in a new window); LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haber/ (opens in a new window).⁠[9][10]

Andreessen Horowitz: Official website: https://a16z.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]