David C. Blivin

DAVID BLIVIN is the Founder and Managing Director of Cottonwood Technology Funds. He has over 30 years of experience in technology commercialization. He has raised over 300M across the southeast and southwest US, as well as, northwest Europe. He has helped create over 3 billion in enterprise value through strategic funding and ecosystem development. Dave's career has focused on breakthrough innovation: quantum materials, photonics, robotics, climate technologies, in regions overlooked by mainstream venture capital. Through Cottonwood, he has helped founders navigate early science to market-ready product—the “chasm before the chasm” that every deep tech company must cross. Technology commercialization is offered as a pathway to job creation and economic diversification by government and economic development leaders around the world. The truth is the pathway is not trying to copy Silicon Valley. This book details what works in the “desert” – regions. This is the majority of the world.