Investors & Partners at Alpaca VC

Daniel Fetner

General Partner, Alpaca VC

Daniel Fetner is a General Partner at Alpaca VC, where he focuses on identifying and supporting innovative companies across fintech, consumer, and Web3 sectors. With a proven track record of backing transformative businesses, Fetner has been instrumental in investments including ClassPass, the fitness and wellness platform that revolutionized the industry, and Compass, the real estate technology company that modernized home buying and selling. His investment philosophy emphasizes backing founders and businesses that leverage technology to solve meaningful problems and create lasting value. At Alpaca VC, Fetner leverages his deep industry expertise and network to mentor portfolio companies and identify emerging opportunities at the intersection of finance, consumer behavior, and blockchain technology. His career reflects a commitment to early-stage investing and building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs reshaping their respective markets.

David Goldberg

General Partner, Alpaca VC

David Goldberg is a General Partner at Alpaca VC, a venture capital firm focused on identifying and nurturing transformative companies across multiple sectors. With expertise spanning fintech, consumer, and Web3 technologies, Goldberg brings a strategic investment perspective to emerging market opportunities. His track record includes notable investments in Classpass, the leading digital fitness marketplace, and Compass, a technology-driven real estate platform. Through his work at Alpaca VC, Goldberg focuses on supporting founders building innovative solutions at the intersection of technology and industry disruption. His investment philosophy emphasizes backing entrepreneurs who are redefining traditional markets through digital transformation and novel business models.

Ryan Freedman

General Partner, Alpaca VC

Ryan Freedman is a deep real estate operator-turned-VC who ran Corigin, a $600M AUM real estate investment firm where he was early to co-living and tech-enabled multifamily, and founded Coral Capital, a commercial finance platform that has provided over $1.5B in financing to small businesses. He's known for his PropTech 2.0 thesis that looks for full-suite, integrated platforms that can become acquirers rather than point solutions that get acquired, and is part of a small group of seed GPs building proprietary AI tooling, including Alpaca's internal agent system that auto-mapped 50+ high-value intros for portfolio companies.