David Katz
David is a Partner at Radical Ventures, a global multi-stage AI focused venture capital fund with teams in Toronto, Palo Alto, New York and London. Radical's investors and partners include the most prominent luminaries in AI including Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li, the "Godparents of AI". At Radical, David leads the Investment Team, Radical's compute practice group and operations.
David brings a strong foundation as both an entrepreneur and investor in emerging technology companies, with a deep understanding of the Insurtech and Digital Health landscapes.
David's first insuretech venture was InsLogic, an online P&C insurance marketplace for financial institutions in the United States that was acquired by Capital One Bank. After InsLogic, David spent several years in adtech, building machine learning platforms for media buying, customer acquisition and data management. David then returned to Insurtech leading the digital transformation and growth of Benecaid, an employee health insurance provider and MGU for the SMB market which was acquired by April International, a wholesale broker in France. David later founded Honeybee, an employee benefits digital marketplace. Benecaid and Honeybee were both subsequently acquired by the Green Shield Canada group.
David earned his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at the University of Western
Ontario (1991) and his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School (1995).