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David C. Blivin

Managing Partner

David Blivin is the Founder and Managing Director of both Cottonwood Technology Funds and Southeast Interactive Funds.


About

Having raised and invested over $300 million in start-up capital in innovative science startups across the U.S. Southwest, Southeast and Northwest Europe, David brings unique insights to how to create the ecosystems needed to support commercialization and job creation in “desert” regions throughout the world—those rich in innovation but poor in the money and management needed to leverage their resident innovation. David has helped facilitate over $2 billion in enterprise value creation through strategic funding and ecosystem development.

Book cover of Crossing the Cactus: A Blueprint for Tech Commercialization Success Outside Silicon Valley by David C. Blivin

Crossing the Cactus

A Blueprint for Tech Commercialization Success Outside Silicon Valley

In Crossing the Cactus, veteran venture capitalist David Blivin tackles one of the most persistent challenges in economic development: how to build successful technology ecosystems in regions outside established hubs like Silicon Valley and Boston. While breakthrough innovations emerge from universities and research facilities worldwide, most communities lack the resources…

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