Godfather of Quantization · AI Pioneer · Venture Builder
23 companies founded. 5+ at $100M+ valuations. Building the future of AI from MIT's Kendall Square since 1992.
Godfather of Quantization · AI Pioneer · Venture Builder
23 companies founded. 5+ at $100M+ valuations. Building the future of AI from MIT's Kendall Square since 1992.
Dave Blundin has been building at the intersection of AI and entrepreneurship for over three decades. As an undergraduate in MIT's AI Lab, he programmed some of the largest-scale neural networks of his era — and in 1992, pioneered neural network quantization at Scan-Optics, deploying quantized models on custom inference hardware years before the technique went mainstream.
Today he's the Founder & General Partner of Link Ventures, investing through the Link-XPV fund in the next generation of AI founders from MIT and Harvard. He's served as Chairman of 12 companies — including EverQuote (NASDAQ: EVER) — and on 21 private and public boards including XPRIZE. He teaches "AI for Impact: Venture Studio" at MIT — a class so popular it's oversubscribed with ~100 students every semester.
Operating at the intersection of AI venture capital, company creation, and frontier research.
Managing Partner. Early-stage AI VC investing in MIT & Harvard founders.
Chairman & Co-Founder. Public insurance marketplace. NASDAQ: EVER
Chairman. Manages over $2 trillion in US assets. Wealth management platform.
Founder. Building at the frontier of AI quantization — pioneered in 1992.
Chairman. 40,000+ sq ft AI venture studio in Cambridge. 22 companies launched.
From pre-seed to public — investing in transformative companies reshaping industries.
AI-powered talent marketplace
MIT-spinout, next-gen AI models. Unicorn.
Early investor. Global travel platform.
Early investor. Online automotive marketplace.
Online estate planning platform
AI-native company
AI-powered software development
AI-native company
Full-length founder interviews from Dave's channel — building AI companies in real time, from Claude Code demos to $2 trillion platforms. New episodes every week.
w/ Drew Ross & Ethan Siegel, Vocara
w/ Joseph Aoun, President of Northeastern
w/ Nick Leonard & Derek Caneja, VoiceRun
w/ Kush Bavaria, CEO of Ornn
w/ Ghedion Beyen & Chris Pellegrini, LotTech
w/ Freedom Dumlao, CTO & CAIO of Vestmark
With Peter Diamandis — reaching 1M+ entrepreneurs and innovators. Dave Blundin is a regular host alongside Salim Ismail and Alex Wissner-Gross on the "WTF Just Happened in Tech" segment.
w/ Elon Musk
w/ Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras
w/ Ben Horowitz, Salim Ismail, AWG
w/ Eric Schmidt
w/ Brett Adcock (Figure AI)
w/ Emad Mostaque, Brian Elliott
Watch all on YouTube
Greater Boston — anchored by MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern — is the densest concentration of AI talent, research, and capital in the world.
AI Lab alumnus. Teaching "AI for Impact: Venture Studio." Link Ventures sources founders from MIT's ecosystem.
Alex Wissner-Gross holds a Harvard PhD and is a Fellow at Harvard's Institute for Applied Computational Science.
Part of the Link Ventures talent pipeline. Daniel Blundin (Northeastern alumnus) serves as Venture Developer.
A new generation of category-defining AI companies being built in Cambridge and beyond.
Link Ventures is deploying capital into the next generation of AI-native companies from MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern. Join us.
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