Co-CIO & General Partner
CV VCCheck size: CV VC's current founder page states that the firm invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP, initial traction, a pilot product, and revenue. No separate personal check range is published for David.
David backs early-stage frontier-technology companies that make enterprise intelligence programmable or rebuild how value and trust move. CV VC's current strategy centers on automation, intelligent B2B, and digital finance, with AI-native software and blockchain acting as complementary foundations. His own public commentary emphasizes useful infrastructure over speculation, safe movement of capital into innovation, institutional adoption, durable systems, and globally relevant companies formed in Europe, the United States, or the Middle East.
Determined founders with an MVP, initial traction, a pilot or revenue; technology that changes how businesses transact, produce, or decide; real utility and measurable outcomes; category potential; institutional-grade safety and compliance; durable infrastructure; and a credible path from a narrow early use case to global adoption.
David has not published a personal exclusion list. CV VC's stated filters imply weaker fit for pre-idea teams without an MVP, companies with no initial traction or revenue signal, token speculation without utility, AI added superficially to an existing product, unclear trust or compliance architecture, and businesses outside the firm's pre-seed/seed or geographic mandate.
Apply with a working MVP and concrete initial traction. Lead with the structural change, the decision or transaction being rebuilt, and why AI, blockchain, or another frontier technology is necessary rather than decorative. Show pilot results, revenue, deployment speed, data or infrastructure defensibility, compliance and security, unit economics, geographic strategy, and the next proof point. For financial systems, explain how capital moves safely; for AI, demonstrate a bottom-up AI-native architecture and workflow ownership.
Test whether the frontier technology creates a measurable operating, access, trust, or cost advantage in the real world rather than relying on asset-price momentum.
For digital-finance infrastructure, map custody, compliance, settlement, counterparty, and regulatory risks before underwriting institutional adoption.
Distinguish businesses whose workflow and architecture are rebuilt around programmable intelligence from incumbents or startups that merely attach an AI feature.
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“The key question for investors and builders is how to move capital safely into innovation.”
— https://www.cvvc.com/blogs/web3-hub-davos---a-fast-orientation-in-web3-innovation-for-investors
“The opportunity ahead is about scale, discipline, and execution.”
— https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-long1_im-excited-and-honored-to-step-into-the-activity-7417591716872044545-iX6H
David became Co-CIO of CV VC after two years as Chief Commercial Officer and earlier served as Head of Investments, where a conference biography credits him with growing the portfolio beyond 75 investments and launching four funds. Before CV VC, he spent about a decade in investment management, including J.P. Morgan and a Boston asset-management firm, and served as a board director or advisor to technology companies. He studied at Bentley University and holds FINRA Series 7 and Series 66 credentials.