About
David Fried is a highly experienced investor and executive. Prior to joining MVP Ventures, he served as President of Grey Point LLC, where he made principal investments in venture, real estate, hedge funds, and private equity. Previous to this, he served in senior roles at Wolf Hill Capital Management, Tyrian Investments (Julian Robertson seeded fund) , Scoggin Capital and Morgan Stanley, among other investment firms. David holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, and a BA in International Relations from Hamilton College.
Experience
Partner
MVP Ventures · New York, United States
Present
MVP Ventures (MVP-VC.com) is an early-stage AI focused software and hardware VC based in Menlo Park, CA. Since founding 5 years ago, we’ve invested into 115 of the most promising startups, with 15 growing into unicorns—representing the highest hit rate in the industry. Portfolio companies include Anduril, Collaborative Robotics, Neon Database (recently acquired by Databricks), Lumilens, Sema4.ai, Exowatt, Dataminr, Saronic, Loft Orbital, and more. Our team draws from prior experience at Stanford’s Fund, Mayfield, GSR Ventures, and a16z. Our first fund, a 2021 Vintage, was a $40mm vehicle currently performing top-quartile in TVPI. In July 2025, we closed an oversubscribed $125mm Fund II, which is already performing in the top 5% by TVPI, with 40 investments made to date. In addition to Fund I and II, we’ve also executed over $200mm in co-investments opportunities. We are now carrying that momentum into the launch of our $100mm Select Fund, which is designed to double down on our top-per…
President
Grey Point LLC · New York, New York
Personal Family Office investments in real estate, hedge funds and private equity.
Partner, Head of Business Development
Wolf Hill Capital Management · Greater New York City Area
Wolf Hill Capital is an opportunistic, concentrated, value focused long/short hedge fund managed by Gary Lehrman, launched in March 2017.
Partner, Head of Business Development
Magnolia Road Capital, LP · Greater New York City Area
Magnolia Road Capital LP is a global event-driven credit manager that invests in stressed/distressed corporate debt, primarily middle market opportunities that are senior in the capital structure, typically 50% US/ 50% Europe. The Fund was launched by Jame Donath in 2013 with seed capital from Capricorn/ Jeff Skoll's family office (one of the founders of Ebay). Selected by Institutional Investor magazine in 2017 as "Emerging Hedge Fund Manager of the Year."
Partner, Head of Business Development/Investor Relations
Tyrian Investments LP · New York, New York
Tyrian Investments is a Global Long/Short Equity hedge fund managed by Orlando Muyshondt and seeded by Julian Robertson and Tiger Management in 2010. I launched the marketing program with assets at $40mm in 2012 and grew the business to peak assets of $1.05bn in 2014.
Head of Marketing and Investor Relations
Scoggin Capital Management, LP II
Scoggin Capital is a $2bn event driven fund launched by Craig Effron and Curtis Schenker in 1988. I managed the marketing/IR of the flagship multi-strategy fund and the Scoggin Worldwide Distressed Fund.
Head of Marketing and Investor Relations
Metropolitan Capital is an event driven fund launched by Karen Finerman and Jeffrey Schwarz in 1992. I joined in 2001 with assets of $100mm and grew the business to $500mm peak assets in 2005.
Investment Management, Executive Director
Private Wealth Management Group. Provided clients with access to all divisions of the firm. Actively marketed asset management funds, trading strategies, private placements, hedging vehicles and investment banking services.
Education
Columbia Business School
MBA, Finance
Columbia University
Master Real Estate Development
Hamilton College
BA, International relations
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