David Pakman

Founder turned VC. 18+ years investing at seed & Series A. Dollar Shave Club, Coinbase, Arduino, Dapper Labs. Now leading venture at CoinFund.

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
16
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11
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2
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17y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor & Board Observer
May 2025
Veda is the leading DeFi vault platform, enabling crypto applications, asset issuers, and protocols to build consumer-grade cross chain yield products. Vedas technology already powers many of DeFis largest vault products and power more than $4B in deposits.
Board Member
May 2024
Aerial intelligence for critical infrastructure. Raad captures, analyzes, and delivers mission-critical drone insights in hours, not days.
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2022
The universal market for digital assets. One API for swaps, bridging, or any action onchain. Integrated by Robinhood Wallet, MetaMask, Phantom + 800 partners.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Creator-centric NFT marketplace. We are hiring!
Board Member
Nov 2019
Rebalancing the natural carbon cycle and deacidifying the ocean.
Board Member
Sep 2019
Simbe, the global leader in retail shelf digitization, is the trusted partner for retailers confronting todays most critical challenges: 66% of "out-of-stock" items hidden within stores, 90% of pricing errors missed by manual audits, and 95% labor attrition. As the market leader across a dozen retail sectors globally, our unique combination of AI, robotics, RFID, and advanced sensors delivers immediate shelf intelligence without the need for planograms. Simbe customers consistently achieve transformative results: 2% margin growth, 98% on-shelf availability, 90% improved price accuracy, and 50+ weekly labor hours reallocated to customer service per store. Our enterprise-grade platform seamlessly integrates with existing retail systems, delivering ROI within three months while powering the intelligent retail operating model necessary to compete today.
mid stageRetail
Investor
Jul 2019
At 3Box Labs we are on a mission to usher in a new era for the web, where data is secure, interactions are trustworthy, and relationships are the basis of connection. Our first product, Ceramic, is the building block for composable data on the web and is powering thousands of the world's most ambitious applications. We're backed by the best investors in the space (USV, Placeholder, Variant, Multicoin) who have deep conviction in our mission. We are a lean, voraciously curious team from across the globe. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We cannot succeed in our mission without it. People that identify with groups traditionally underrepresented in tech are particularly encouraged to apply.
Board Member
Oct 2018
Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, UFC Strike and the Flow blockchain, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world, paving the way to a more open and inclusive digital world starting with games and entertainment. Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given consumer enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them to contribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves. Dapper Labs current studio partners include the NBA, NBPA, WNBA, WNBPA, LaLiga, NFL, NFLPA, Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, Genies, and UFC. We have raised over $600M from leading and notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, Google Ventures (GV), Samsung, and the founders of Dreamworks, Reddit, Coinbase, Zynga, and AngelList, among others. Dapper Labs is accelerating the move to Web3 by building new apps and platforms that enable great user experiences while being accessible to hundreds of millions of fans of organizations like the NBA and NFL, for example. We’re ready to empower even more to bring mainstream-ready user experiences and scale to web3 applications.
Board Member
May 2017
Misty Robotics is introducing a new way of entering the world of robotics. With Misty, a friendly and highly sophisticated educational robot platform, we are opening up access to robots in STEM education and research by taking down today’s barriers - cost, required knowledge of robotics and the efforts needed for different groups in society to explore and learn about robots. The Misty robot provides researchers, innovators and educators with an easy-to-use and creative tool to explore social robotics, ranging from quick and simplistic prototypes to advanced human-robot interactions. By leveraging the power of the social robotics community, Misty users can share their experiences and quickly gain traction in their development and research. Misty Robotics are creating new opportunities for the research and innovation industry to further understand how social robots will be useful in our society. Misty Robotics believes in the role and positive impact that robots will have in our lives, and is part of the early revolution together with researchers and innovators to define the future role of robots in society.
Board Member
Oct 2015
Pearl believes that all drivers should have access to new car technology. The company is focused on advancing the underlying technologies in the autonomous vehicle to improve the experience for every driver on the road today. Its first product, RearVision, is the world’s most advanced backup camera — it installs in minutes, provides obstacle alerts and is solar powered. Created by former leaders in Apple’s iPod and iPhone teams and inspired by the world-changing products they helped produce, Pearl is dedicated to improving the more than 1.2 billion cars on the road today.
Board Member
Sep 2015
Amino is a network of communities for every interest on the planet. Fans around the world spend time in our app every day to fully immerse themselves in the things they love. Our communities enable users to obsess over things they're passionate about, connect with others around the world, and foster their creativity. We're currently hiring for both our New York City and Shanghai offices. It's an exciting time to be part of our global team. View all of our communities at www.aminoapps.com and find us on the App Store & Google Play.
Board Member
Jul 2014
We believe in the unlimited potential of human creativity. In fact, it’s why we come to work every day - to create a powerful platform where anyone can broadcast and express themselves in front of a vast live audience. In a moment when social media and TV are converging, we’re proud to provide a product that fuses the experience of broadcasting, gaming, performing and social networking, giving direct power to the people and enabling them to discover and create new kinds of interactive content in real-time. Long at the forefront of user-generated video, we’re a small and experienced team working from a sunny loft in Midtown Manhattan. And we’re backed by Oren’s Capital, and VCs like Union Square Ventures and Venrock - the same firms that first helped Twitter, Apple, Tumblr and others become tech heavy-hitters. Interested in joining the team? Check out our careers page at http://www.younow.com/info/en/jobs.
Board Member
Oct 2012
We disrupted the shaving industry in 2011 by delivering "F*cking Great Blades" at an awesome price, right to your door. From razors, we quickly grew into a men’s self care brand offering oral care, hair styling, deodorant, skincare, and fine fragrance along with services and content designed to help guys take care of their minds and bodies so they can be their best selves. We spend our days working to eliminate the stigma around being a man and wanting to take care of yourself. In turn, we hope that you will come to us in your most vulnerable moments. Here, you will find answers to your questions, from Club Pros who know what it takes to make you look, feel, and smell your best. You got a problem? We’ve got a solution. Welcome to the Club. Dlrshv.es/WelcomeToTheClub DollarShaveClub.com/Content Facebook.com/DollarShaveClub Twitter.com/DollarShaveClub Instagram.com/DollarShaveClub
early stageConsumer Goods
Board Member
Nov 2009
Smartlings AI-Enabled Translation Platform, Neural Machine Translation and Language Services empowers teams to create multilingual websites, marketing communications, web and mobile apps and customer experiences. Grow your business faster, with the #1 translation management platform.
Board Member
Mar 2009
Dstillery is the leading AI ad targeting company. We empower brands and agencies to target their best prospects for high-performing programmatic advertising campaigns. Our audience targeting solutions are powered by multimodal AI — a breakthrough in AI that learns from any form of data and applies it to any form of data, making it the most flexible targeting engine in the market. Backed by our award-winning Data Science, Dstillery has earned 24 patents (and counting) for the AI technology that powers our precise, scalable audiences. To learn more, visit www.dstillery.com. For career opportunities, visit dstillery.com/careers.
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2025
Investor & Board Observer
May 2025
Veda is the leading DeFi vault platform, enabling crypto applications, asset issuers, and protocols to build consumer-grade cross chain yield products. Vedas technology already powers many of DeFis largest vault products and power more than $4B in deposits.
2024
Board Member
May 2024
Aerial intelligence for critical infrastructure. Raad captures, analyzes, and delivers mission-critical drone insights in hours, not days.
2022
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2022
The universal market for digital assets. One API for swaps, bridging, or any action onchain. Integrated by Robinhood Wallet, MetaMask, Phantom + 800 partners.
2021
Managing Partner
Oct 2021
Disruptive technology requires disruptive investors. CoinFund is a cryptoasset-focused investment firm founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, New York. Our mission is to help advance the blockchain ecosystem by strategically investing in the decentralized stack and key financial infrastructure using an approach informed by our extensive blockchain technology expertise and experience in the industry. Our team brings together multidisciplinary backgrounds in technology, computer science, math, law, economics, finance, quantitative research, and psychology. As a valuable strategic investor we seek to define the space by supporting project teams in the early stages, directly participating in decentralized networks as validators and resource providers, and assisting entrepreneurs with technology architecture specification and cryptoeconomic design. If you are a blockchain project founder or are interested in exploring these technologies for your product, please get in touch with us at info@coinfund.io or join us in the CoinFund Slack.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Creator-centric NFT marketplace. We are hiring!
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