# Donavan Kealoha > Donavan Kealoha is a seed investor at Startup Capital Ventures backing Machine Learning. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details… - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Startup Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-capital-ventures) - Location: Honolulu, United States - Total investments: 4 - Last investment: Aug 2025 - Lead investor: 50% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donavankealoha Donavan Kealoha is a seed investor at Startup Capital Ventures in Honolulu focused on Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. Managing Director, Startup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Donavan Kealoha: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/donavan-r-kealoha?utm_source=investor_profile ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Machine Learning | 2 | 50% | | Predictive Analytics | 2 | 50% | | Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% | | SaaS | 1 | 25% | | Software | 1 | 25% | 19 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 2 | 50% | | Series B | 1 | 25% | | Funding Round | 1 | 25% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bruviti | Bruviti is an enterprise AI platform that uses AI & Ml to to connect with customers, deliver exceptional service and complete the most critical feedback loop to accelerate repeat buys, increase accessory sales and improved margins. Bruviti's proprietary decision fabric engine enables companies to make smarter, faster, data-driven decisionsby providing predictive, actionable service recommendations. Bruviti is addressing 500B+ equipment service market that is going to define next generation of Customer Service Experience. | $6M | | Aug 07, 2025 | | | Breinify | Breinify’s mission is to democratize data science. Today, we have built a powerful predictive personalization at scale platform for consumer enterprises. Our lightweight platform enables consumer brand marketers to deliver powerful personalization in real-time without having to support an in-house data science team.Breinify customers includeBevMo!, Duraflame, Hidden Valley Ranch, and many more to drive $125M in new revenue, 20x results (between split testing) for 2+ page visits, and +105% in CRM growth.Breinify technology is powered by our proprietary AI which blends traditional machine learning and complex temporal algorithms to learn, react, be proactive, and make extremely granular intelligent decisions that vary for each individual at any time. In 2021, Breinify has up-sold to >80% of existing customers with incredible land and expand / GTM strategies. Breinify is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Raised a $11M oversubscribed seed round led by Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and Streamlined Ventures. Participation from CXO Fund, Startup Capital Ventures, Amino Capital, Sterling Road, and others. | $6.2M | Seed | Apr 10, 2021 | | | AreaMetrics | AreaMetrics was acquired by Point Inside in January 2020. AreaMetrics provides geo-location data that powers insights for marketers and brands. We access a network of in-store sensors to understand offline foot-traffic and to deliver the highest-quality in alternative data intelligence. | $2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2015 | | | Phizzle | Phizzle EDGMaker - Unlocking & Digitizing the Most Valuable Scientific Data in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. ​Phizzle is the only IoT solution to remotely operate and automate multi-vendor particle counters for scientific data applications in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Clear Air, and Food Manufacturing. The EDGMaker software stack offersfully digitized testing and compliance processes to reduce labor, human error, and wasted batches in regulated manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $6.1M | Series B | | | 4 of 4 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [CXO Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cxo-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [DYDX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dydx-d872) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Amino Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zpark-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Arka Venture Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arka-ventures-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Gutbrain Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gutbrain-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Reef Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mbloom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Startup Capital Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States Startup Capital Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the enterprise. Based in Silicon Valley, we focus on early-stage companies that require relatively small amounts of capital to achieve success. The firm leverages its investments with unparalleled operations experience from a team of seasoned professionals. Generally, wetarget capital efficient companies, such as software, that are generating some revenue and can show likelihood of reaching near-term profitability.We focus on investing in strong management teams, not just technologies and strive to build a supportive working relationship with their companies based on flexibility, integrity, and patience.We know firsthand the hard work and challenges of building successful companies. Our extensive network of strategic contacts and their presence makes a difference in how rapidly our companies achieve critical milestones. Our geographic focus is principally Silicon Valley as well as Hawaii, Texas, and Oklahoma, where the firm has extensive relationships. 5 contacts available at Startup Capital Ventures. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Bob Rees | General Partner | — | | Catherine Ngo | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/photo-a-catherine-ngo-a-catherine-ngo | | Denis Coleman | Strategic Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denis-coleman | | Donavan Kealoha | Managing Director | — | | John Davidson | Founder & GP | — | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Donavan Kealoha invest in? Donavan Kealoha invests primarily in Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 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 Donavan Kealoha? Public channels for Donavan Kealoha include LinkedIn. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox. ### When did Donavan Kealoha last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Donavan Kealoha closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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