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. 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.