David Magerman spent over 20 years as a senior researcher and managing director at Renaissance Technologies, bringing rare "Rentech quant" experience to early-stage venture capital where he applies systematic, data-driven strategy building to help founders create data-centric companies. He focuses specifically on data-focused entrepreneurs who treat data as a product and competitive advantage, while advocating that data science cannot be applied to VC investing in a simplistic way but should instead be used to understand markets, product usage, and founder problem-fit. David Magerman spent over 20 years as a senior researcher and managing director at Renaissance Technologies, bringing rare "Rentech quant" experience to early-stage venture capital where he applies systematic, data-driven strategy building to help founders create data-centric companies. He focuses specifically on data-focused entrepreneurs who treat data as a product and competitive advantage, while advocating that data science cannot be applied to VC investing in a simplistic way but should instead be used to understand markets, product usage, and founder problem-fit.