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.