David Gerster is an Investment Partner at Fusion Fund focused on enterprise AI. He previously led data science work at BigML and Groupon and teaches venture investing through the Fusion Fund Venture Fellowship.
David Gerster is an Investment Partner at Fusion Fund focused on enterprise AI. He previously led data science work at BigML and Groupon and teaches venture investing through the Fusion Fund Venture Fellowship.
Career
David Gerster holds an MBA from University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
Investment Partner at Fusion Fund until PresentJSPrincipal, JLL Spark Global Venture Fund at JLL Spark until 2022Invested in early-stage property technology companies.
GDirector of Data Science at Groupon from 2010 to 2013-07Built the data science team responsible for machine-learned mobile deal relevance.
MPrincipal Program Manager, Bing at Microsoft from 2009-05 to 2010Coauthored research on using crowdsourced labels and features to filter microblog search results.
YDirector of Analytics at Yahoo from 2007-09 to 2009-02Led a Hadoop clickstream-data project used to improve web search ranking.
