David Silverman is a co-managing general partner at Crosslink Capital who brings an unusually deep background in tech investment banking from Robertson Stephens, Piper Jaffray, and 3i Ventures, giving him strong capital-markets and M&A expertise for an early-stage VC. He has shown repeated success backing marketing, analytics, and fintech companies like BlueLithium (Yahoo!), Omniture (Adobe), Chime, and others that became major strategic acquisitions, while being known for his hands-on, company-building partnership style that founders specifically seek out.
About their Fund
Crosslink Capital
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Enterprise, Fintech, Consumer, SaaS, AI
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Seed - Series A
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$1M - $3M (Seed); $5M - $10M (Series A)
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Crosslink Capital runs "Alpha," a nearly 20-year-old proprietary network of ~2,000 handpicked members (70% founders/CEOs, 20% pre-seed/seed VCs, 10% large-company executives) that operates as a broad ecosystem utility rather than a house list, designed "for founders first" rather than as a marketing channel. The firm has institutionalized "plausible science fiction" as an explicit investing lens, backing companies just outside the current edge of technical possibility and bringing a repeatable playbook for commercializing defense and deep-tech R&D.
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