The venture industry is filled with localized celebrities. These are figures probably known by every startup and investor within 5,000 miles of Menlo Park, but who don’t have the name recognition of the VCs that have broken through into the (relative) mainstream, like Marc Andreessen or Tim Draper.
David Haber is one of those venture celebrities, though the term would probably make him cringe. He’s the type of person who comes up every time I ask about the top VCs operating in New York—someone who has been described to me as a “connector,” whose superpower is knowing and linking the right people, and ideas, together. (That he also happens to work as a general partner helping oversee enterprise software at arguably the most powerful venture firm of the moment, a16z, doesn’t hurt.)
