Investor and serial entrepreneur with over ten years venture capital experience as a general partner in Anthemis, with $1.5b AUM. I now focus on AI and robotics product design and market analysis for deep-tech startups, corporates and investors, at F2N.co 25+ years entrepreneurial experience in technology, in Geneva, London, San Francisco and New York,with a focus on business and product design. Co-founder of MRL Ventures, where I led the project which became Yelp and went public; co-founder of the first news search engine, Moreover, which was acquired by Verisign and co-founder of Origins, the first online genealogy service, acquired by D.C. Thomson. Operational expertise in highly technical business and product design. Built two venture studios and co-founded one of the first startups using AI for classification in 1999. I have held multiple board seats in private technology companies and one publicly listed one. As a product designer, created several key components of social networks, including: co-authoring RSS (the technology that underlies online syndication and podcasts); innovating the use of one line bios (and the subsequent link-in-bio economy); pioneering visual bookmarking (the concept behind Pinterest) and building the first social news feed application with the founders of Twitter. Qualified as an architect in the UK, began career working for Norman Foster and then Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd set designers, Fisher Park. Survived an 800ft fall in a climbing accident, as a teenager and have lived life to the full, since. Om Malik: “David has a nasty habit of predicting the future before everyone else”.