# Emy Donavan

> Emy Donavan is a seed investor at Boost (San Francisco Bay Area) backing InsurTech and Insurance. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Boost](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boost-insurance)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emydonavan/
- Website: https://x.com/emydonavan
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emy.donavan

Emy Donavan is a seed investor at Boost in San Francisco Bay Area focused on InsurTech and Insurance. Emy Donavan is the current Chief Underwriting Officer of Boost. She previously worked at Resilience as an Executive Vice President and Global CUO. Emy Donavan attended the University of California, Berkeley.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| InsurTech | 2 | 100% |
| Insurance | 2 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Auto Insurance | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Relativity6 | Relativity6 uses the latest Artificial Intelligence research to classify businesses from fortune 500s to main street in real-time for mission critical use cases across financial services, segmentation and fraud. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Stere.io | Stere is a one-stop shop for businesses to find capacity and access digital tools to launch, improve, and grow insurance programs. It aims to empower businesses to launch and grow insurance programs with a full-stack infrastructure, by providing the right services and tools such as digital platforms, data analytics, a network of capacity providers,innovative tech, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Dover, Delaware. | $2M | Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-ventures-mexico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cortado Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cortado-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hartford Investment Management Co. (HIMCO)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hartford-investment-management-co-himco) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sandalphon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandalphon-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Boost

VC Fund · New York, United States

Boost enables companies across all segments to build, embed and manage digital insurance products, and deliver them through a fully embedded experience within their own front-end environments. Boost's infrastructure-as-a-service platform significantly reduces the cost of building and managing an insurance company by packaging the necessaryoperational, compliance, and capital components and making them accessible through a simple API integration. Through its managing general agency subsidiary, Boost Insurance Agency, Inc., Boost is licensed and authorized to produce any type of insurance across all 50 states. Boost is appointed by 'A'-rated fronting carriers and has its own dedicated reinsurance facility backed by global reinsurers. For more information, please visit boostplatform.io.

5 contacts available at Boost.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Maffeo | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-c-maffeo |
| Chris Vitone | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-vitone |
| Emy Donavan | Chief Underwriting Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emy-donavan-96d4 |
| Josh Flowers | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-flowers |
| Julie Sherlock | Chief Insurance Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-sherlock |

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## FAQ

### What does Emy Donavan invest in?

Emy Donavan invests primarily in InsurTech, Insurance and FinTech startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Emy Donavan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Emy Donavan closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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