David Booth

Partner, Ecosystem @ a16z. Formerly, EIR @ Blackbird; Co-Founder & CEO at On Deck (now ODF, Solo, Merge); early-ish at AngelList, Carta, CoinList.

📍 New Zealand, New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor / Board Member
Apr 2024
Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. The Foundry Lab System produces production quality cast metal parts in hours, not weeks, in-house. This approach enables hands-free casting, leapfrogging 3D metal printing to rapidly produce real parts with functionally equivalent properties to traditional cast metal at a fraction of the time, cost and environmental impact.
Network Leader (Investor)
Jan 2019
At Village Global, early-stage capital is just the beginning. We help you go faster with $500M AUM, a vibrant founder community, expert advice, and game-changing customer intros. Chaired by Reid Hoffman and backed by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and more. Come build with the best network in tech.
Product, Operations and Investments
Dec 2017
CoinLists mission is to accelerate the advancement of blockchain technology. We do this by finding the best emerging blockchain projects and helping them succeed. We have become the global leader in new token issuance, helping blue chip projects like Filecoin, Solana, Celo, Algorand, Dapper, and others connect with hundreds of thousands of new token holders. And we now support the full lifecycle of crypto investment, from token sales through token distribution, trading, lending, and crypto-specific services such as staking and access to decentralized-finance opportunities. CoinList users trade and store Bitcoin, Ether, and many other popular crypto assets through our full-service exchange, CoinList Pro, and our simple buy/sell tool on CoinList.co, while also getting access to the best new tokens before they list on other exchanges. Our customers include validators, miners, founders, CEOs, crypto funds, bitcoin OGs, as well as a broad array of crypto enthusiasts. Unlike other centralized crypto finance platforms, were not here to just build a bank or a brokerage. Were building the platform for people who are passionate about moving crypto forward. ❗️ Attention Job Applicants: Please beware of phishing attacks and CoinList recruiting impersonators during this time of heightened interest. We will never ask you to pass KYC, create any accounts, or send funds to any wallet address as part of the recruiting process. Thank you and we look forward to reviewing your application.
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2025
Partner
Oct 2025
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/
2024
Investor / Board Member
Apr 2024
Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. The Foundry Lab System produces production quality cast metal parts in hours, not weeks, in-house. This approach enables hands-free casting, leapfrogging 3D metal printing to rapidly produce real parts with functionally equivalent properties to traditional cast metal at a fraction of the time, cost and environmental impact.
EIR & Investor
Mar 2024
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions. We have more than 7 billion dollars under management and a portfolio of over 100 companies including some of the most successful Australian and New Zealand startups such as Canva, SafetyCulture and Culture Amp.
Co-founder & Chairman
Jan 2024
Our mission is to help more people start better startups. ODF is a program we created over four years ago to help those at the exploration stage of starting a company. So far, weve helped over 1000 companies get started and raise over $2 billion. Starting a company is really exciting, but there are so many things you need to figure out in order to actually build one. - "Who might I start my company with?" - “What might we build?” - “Who might our initial customers be?” - “Should we raise funding soon, or should we try to bootstrap in the beginning?" These and many more questions are what we refer to as the "missing pieces"—the things you need to figure out to know if starting a company is right for you and what company you should ultimately build. With ODF, we bring together 80 to 100 people who are at the very same stage as you. Theyre all exceptionally talented, and theyre all trying to figure it out together.
2019
Venture Partner
Sep 2019
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