Dave Blundin is a serial entrepreneur and Founder of Exponential Ventures (XPV). Dave is also Managing Partner at Link Ventures, a VC firm investing in early-stage technology startups. He has co-founded 23 companies, at least five of which have achieved $100 million+ valuations, and served on 21 private and public boards.

XPV’s mission is to harness talent and deploy capital to entrepreneurs leveraging AI in an aligned fashion to positively impact humanity by addressing the world’s grand challenges. The tech incubation process has led Dave to become chairman of 12 companies, including EverQuote (NASDAQ: EVER). Dave is also the Chairman and founding CEO of Vestmark, which manages over $2TN in US assets, and General Partner at Vestigo Ventures, a fintech-focused fund. 

Dave is extremely passionate about mentoring and coaching young entrepreneurs & management teams to accelerate the impact of technology on society. Dave is currently an instructor at MIT teaching a class in Spring 2024 named “AI for Impact: Venture Studio”, which is vastly oversubscribed and has about 100 students.

Dave sits on the Board of Directors of XPRIZE and received his BS in Computer Science from MIT where he researched neural network technology at the AI lab.