Bloc Ventures
David was Chief Engineer for Technology Evaluation and led Vodafone’s corporate venture team in Europe during his 14 years at Vodafone. In this time the fund was ranked in the top 5 CVCs, David was included in Wired Magazine’s top 100 innovators’ list and he was named as one of the most influential CVCs in the Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist 100. He knows how to spot a commercial technology and test to ensure that it is defensible and disruptive. Starting in the defence industry he learned that with the right people and the right money anything is possible. He brings this invaluable expertise to Bloc and knows how to dig deep and personally look under the bonnet while understanding the commercial ramification of industry dynamics.
This person is not in any offices
Bloc Ventures
Bloc Ventures (‘Bloc’) is an investment company providing long-term, ‘patient’ equity capital to early stage unquoted deep technology companies. Its two founding investment partners have over 50 years’ experience investing in, managing and building technology companies, including ten years running the highly successful venture investment arms of Vodafone plc and Arm Holdings. Bloc invests in companies operating in the big four categories shaping the future of technology: Big Data; Cloud; Connectivity; and Security as they are the most exciting, fastest growing and globally relevant pillars of the technology market.