# Community Development Venture Capital Alliance

> Community Development Venture Capital Alliance is a VC fund backing SaaS. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2586439
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/CDVCAlliance
- Website: http://cdvca.org/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Development-Venture-Capital-Alliance-CDVCA/336276623088551

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance is a network for the field of community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity. CDVCA promotes the field bycombining advocacy, education, communications, and best-practice dissemination through conferences and workshops. CDVCA makes its expertise available to CDVC funds by providing consulting services and technical assistance.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Solar | 1 | 20% |
| Hospital | 1 | 20% |
| Robotics | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 60% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| India | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kerwin Tesdell | President at Community Development Venture Capital Alliance | 2 | — |
| Nathaniel Henshaw | Co-Founder and Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kinectify | Kinectify LLC is a trailblazing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) platform designed for the gaming industry, offering a fully configurable solution for managing compliance across gaming organizations. Trusted by interactive, commercial, and tribal operators, Kinectify integrates data from premier data partners like LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, Exiger, andGracenote Sports. It provides users with access to vast information on individuals, companies, global research capabilities, net worth estimates, watchlists, and screening information on professional athletes.Empowering businesses with enterprise-wide AML compliance, Kinectify offers advanced configuration menus and APIs, giving users complete control over their AML programs. Testimonials from industry professionals confirm Kinectify’s impact, providing a sophisticated and easy-to-use platform built by and for compliance professionals.Committed to the highest data security standards, Kinectify is SOC compliant, ensuring robust security measures for safeguarding data. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 01, 2025 |  |
| OpConnect | OpConnect is a technology company dedicated to the reduction of greenhouse gases through the electrification of transportation. They provide turnkey EV fueling solutions that consist of charging infrastructure. Their cloud-based software platform provides payment processing, energy management, a reservation system, and maintenance tickets for thechargers. In addition to selling and operating EV charging stations under contract with the charging station owners, they also license their charging management software platform, including web portals and mobile apps for drivers, to fueling solution providers throughout the world so that they can easily set up their own charging networks for their local drivers. | $5.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Ocean Aero | The need to understand and protect the worlds oceans is becoming increasingly more important. As observational technologies advance and access to related data increases, the demand for low cost, high availability, unmanned platforms to host an array of observational and data recording sensors is increasing rapidly. Fulfilling the need foreco-friendly platforms and providing easy access to the acquired data is the mission of our company. Ocean Aero is a development-level company with a highly experienced management team that focused 2004-2011 on developing large, hybrid wind and electric powered Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) platforms for the U.S. Navy. That effort produced three patents and a wealth of engineering and market knowledge. Ocean Aero represents the next generation – the creation of highly persistent, energy scavenging wind/electric vessels packaged in a smaller, man-portable configuration. The Company has designed a “game changing” highly ruggedized surface/sub-surface vessel, powered by wind and solar energy, capable of months at sea that can be deployed from land, sea or air. They have named it the “Submaran” – a new class of Unmanned Underwater, Surface Vessel (UUSV). Management plans to follow an aggressive IP technology strategy and, over time, introduce a number of variations of the base platform. The Company’s Base Case projections show revenues growing from $420,000 in 2013 to over $20 million in 2016 with a blended gross margin of 52% and cash flow exceeding 33%. The Company is seeking funding from a partner with industry knowledge that can help it develop go-to-market channels.We for-see a day when scores of these vessels will be deployed over the oceans providing essential information to science, academia, industry and government organizations. Using only the power of the wind and sun, our vessels will help the world better understand our oceans. | $11.2M | Series C | Sep 08, 2021 |  |
| Natural Fiber Welding | Natural Fiber Welding develops a circularity platform producing sustainable materials from plants. Its multi-material platform serves a wide range of industries from fashion and footwear to automotive and upholstery. Its technology embeds seamlessly into existing supply chains, enabling iconic brands to design and scale products withhigh-performance, plastic-free materials. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Gravity Diagnostics | Gravity Diagnostics is a full-service state-of-the-art CLIA laboratory licensed in all 50 states providing innovative laboratory testing in the areas of COVID-19, Upper Respiratory, Toxicology, Pharmacogenomics, and Sexually Transmitted Infections. We are an advocate for physicians, patients, and our communities, supporting them with unsurpassedintegrity, regulatory compliance, and clinical expertise. | $5M |  |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Advantage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BMW i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmw-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [E8 Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/element) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Energy Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-innovation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ethos VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethos-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Evolution VC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-corporate-advisors-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Community Development Venture Capital Alliance invest in?

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance invests primarily in SaaS, Solar and Hospital startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series C stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Community Development Venture Capital Alliance?

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### Who are the partners at Community Development Venture Capital Alliance?

The team at Community Development Venture Capital Alliance includes Kerwin Tesdell (President at Community Development Venture Capital Alliance) and Nathaniel Henshaw (Co-Founder and Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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