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WW’s Mindy Grossman on cultivating culture, authenticity, and passion
Talks about Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Culture
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David Hirsch
Founder of Compound Investor
New York, New York
Overview
David Hirsch is a seasoned venture capitalist based in New York City, known for founding Compound VC and Metamorphic Ventures. With a successful track record of investing in companies like Artemis, DigitalGenius, and Social Native across various sectors, he has made a significant impact in the social commerce and AI industries.
Hirsch has held key positions at reputable companies like Google and Snowball.com/IGN Entertainment, showcasing his expertise in business development and vertical markets. His current role as General Partner and founder at Compound VC highlights his proficiency in identifying and supporting promising startups in the Series A, pre-seed, and seed stages.
Work Experience
General Partner/founder
2008 - Current
Compound is a NYC based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies disrupting or enabling traditional industries.
Compound is a thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm
General Partner /Founder
2008
We are thesis driven and research centric early stage ( pre seed and seed ) investors investing in ai/ml, bio, healthcare , crypto, robotics , automaton and more
Metamorphic Ventures is a New York-based seed stage VC investing in digital media and payment processing.
Director, Vertical Markets Group
2000 - 2008
David co-founded the Vertical Marketing Group at Google, which sat in the middle of all sales and marketing channels, product, customer and media divisions. David helped incubate the print syndication business by bringing online marketers to offline magazines and newspapers. He was also heavily involved in general hiring, sales strategy, culture preservation, business and product development.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Director, Business Development
1998 - 2000
Manager, Ad Sales and Business Development
1997 - 1998
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
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Introducing the Newest Member of the Compound Team
Talks about Startup, Venture Capital and Compound team
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September 9th, 2016 — Happy Birthday Dad
Talks about Love, Family and loss of a parent
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Collaboration as a Service
Talks about Remote Working, Startup and Venture Capital