# David Calone

> David Calone is a seed investor at Jove Equity Partners backing Digital Media. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jove Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jove-equity-partners)
- Location: East Setauket, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2014
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcalone/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dcalone

David Calone is a seed investor at Jove Equity Partners in East Setauket focused on Digital Media and Information Technology. David L. Calone is the President and CEO of Jove Equity Partners, LLC, a private equity and venture capital firm which invests in the internet, software, digital media, real estate and health care industries. He serves as a director of seven privately-held companies located throughout the United States.Prior to Jove Equity Partners, Mr. Caloneserved as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. From 1999 through 2003, Mr. Calone was a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He was one of two federal prosecutors nationwide to receive the 2003 Attorney General’s Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Employee, in recognition of his work fighting terrorism-related and corporate international crime including his role in the September 11th-related prosecutions. He served as a guest instructor at the U.S. Army European Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Media | 2 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| B2B | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Family | 1 | 20% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Grant | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Codagenix | Codagenix is a developer of live-attenuated viral vaccines intended to provide target antigens placed in an attenuated backbone virus.The company's vaccines use Synthetic Attenuated Virus Engineering (SAVE), which are based on synthetic biology and are rationally re-designed of the entire genome to yield a vaccine strain, enabling researchersto invent viral vaccine to treat influenza, dengue, polio, and other diseases. Codagenix has been developing a COVID-19 vaccine as well. | $100K | Grant | Dec 16, 2014 |  |
| BriteHub | BriteHub’s software helps bridge old legacy systems into a cloud-based interface that will advance companies and build a strong foundation for the new-age tech savvy workforce that is the next generation of employees. Today, supply chains are managed through a streamlined RFQ to quote to purchase order-tracking system. This interface allows fororganized messaging between internal and external stakeholders. Files are stored, shared, and viewable with an in-browser 3D viewer. Engineering change orders and version control are tracked and connected directly with the purchase order they relate to. BriteHub features continue to evolve and lead the way in supply chain management and collaboration. | $640K | Convertible Note | Jan 15, 2014 |  |
| Moveline | Moveline is a developer of a web-based platform used to assist people to search movers for shifting their stuff. Moveline makes it easy for couples, families, employees, and people preparing for a move to quickly gather the information they need to save money, prevent headaches, and make smarter moving decisions. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 31, 2012 |  |
| Mocavo | Mocavo.com™ (http://www.mocavo.com), a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words – including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com fills an importantindustry need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family history research. Coupled with the speed and accuracy by which search results are produced, Mocavo.com represents a major technological breakthrough within the genealogy world. | $1M |  | Sep 30, 2011 |  |
| Mocavo | Mocavo.com™ (http://www.mocavo.com), a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words – including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com fills an importantindustry need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family history research. Coupled with the speed and accuracy by which search results are produced, Mocavo.com represents a major technological breakthrough within the genealogy world. | $1M | Seed | Sep 30, 2011 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Deming Center Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deming-center-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ff Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Topspin Consumer Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/topspin-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Jove Equity Partners

VC Fund · East Setauket, United States

Jove Equity Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, specializes in funding early-stage technology companies.

1 contacts available at Jove Equity Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Calone | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-calone |

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## FAQ

### What does David Calone invest in?

David Calone invests primarily in Digital Media, Information Technology and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Grant 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.

### What is David Calone's check size?

David Calone typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Calone participates in.

### When did David Calone last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Calone closed in Dec 2014. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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