David Bloom broke into venture capital directly from UC Berkeley undergrad and has been a full-time investor since his early 20s, giving him unusually deep early-stage pattern recognition through continuous focus on the Berkeley founder community via Dorm Room Fund and The House Fund. He specializes in backing founders who are productizing tribal knowledge in legacy industries using computer vision and generative AI, while also serving as head of NextGen Partners, the largest organization of pre-partner-level VCs in the U.S.