David Bloom is Senior Associate at Kyber Knight Capital, a newly launched $120m preseed and seed fund based in San Francisco. KKC invests in founders building across AI, labor, commerce, and the built environment. Prior to launching Kyber Knight Capital he spent his early venture career at Signia Venture Partners, Global Founders Capital, and The House Fund. David focuses on companies building solutions at the intersection of industrials, labor, and AI.
EVCA: Describe a defining moment in your career and how it shaped where you are today.
David: In college I was lucky enough to join the West Coast team at Dorm Room Fund. This was my first entry into venture and allowed me to start writing checks at the age of 20. We were usually the first investor in these founders so I got a first hand look of building 0-1. This cementing in me that the early stages of investing was were my passion was and defined my future investing career.
EVCA: What is an emerging technology trend that will have a significant impact on the world in the next decade?
David: I believe computer vision and generative AI will finally allow founders to build 10x solutions to problems in old legacy industries. In the past companies simply were building workflow tools that digitized the current way people were working. While this helped it the lack of productivity increase making sales incredible difficult. These new technologies I believe will allow for what Im calling the “productization of tribal knowledge” that will lead to productivity gains unseen in many of the old industries.
Hailey Hu is an Investment Director at AiiM Partners, an early growth fund investing in differentiated climate technology solutions across a $17 trillion market opportunity in four key sectors-- data & digitization, energy transition, alternative materials and agriculture & food systems. Previously Hailey was an investor at B Capital Group, a global growth fund backed by BCG, and a strategy consultant in Accenture's healthcare practice. Hailey has an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in finance and economics from UPenn/Wharton.
EVCA: Describe a defining moment in your career and how it shaped where you are today.
Hailey: I took a year off on sabbatical early in my career to work with a NGO that was developing mobile technology solutions for the rural poor in Uganda and India. My experience working there opened up my perspective on work, life and the meaning we derive from our day to day. Since then I have found that having purpose and positive impact has become table stakes in my career.
EVCA: What is an emerging technology trend that will have a significant impact on the world in the next decade?
Hailey: I believe one of the defining technology trends of this next decade will be how advancements in biotech-- from the likes of computational/AI, CRISPR, synthetic biology-- will create new advancements across multiple industries. This is a trend I followed initially as a healthcare investor, and with my current focus on climate it is exciting to see the cost curve opening up applications in areas such as food, agriculture, materials and waste. While the potential to produce products that are more effective and sustainable using biology has so much promise, we will also need to grapple with the ethics, safety and potential impacts of technology that enables us to essentially harness and manipulate nature.
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