# Gutbrain Ventures

> Gutbrain Ventures is a VC fund in Boston backing Software and SaaS. See 92 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 92
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gutbrain-ventures
- Website: https://www.gutbrainventures.com

Gutbrain Ventures is an independent venture firm that invests primarily in enterprise software companies. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$8M |
| Series A | $5M–$17M |
| Series B | $17M–$55M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 33 | 36% |
| SaaS | 18 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 10% |

121 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 32% |
| Series A | 17 | 18% |
| Series B | 10 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 5% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 61 | 66% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robert Davoli | Founder & Managing Director; Founder and General Partner | 116 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-davoli |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allure Security Technology | Allure's anti-phishing solution defends enterprise customers from attacks. Allure detects phishing campaigns in near real-time from the first customer attack. It identifies which customers are being phished and devalues anything the cybercriminal may have stolen from the customer and assists the enterprise in destroying the malicious site bytaking it down. It was developed with $10M in DARPA funding by a team of Columbia University scientists. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $17M | Series B | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Aliro Technologies | Aliro Quantum, The Quantum Networking Company™, offers AliroNet™ to emulate, pilot, and deploy entanglement-based quantum networks that are capable of running a wide variety of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. Aliro, spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University, includesworld-class experts in quantum and classical networking and is leading the charge in quantum network development by offering the foundational technologies needed for organizations around the world to build scalable and powerful distributed quantum systems. AliroNet™ users include utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers who are simulating, designing, piloting, orchestrating, and building the world's first entanglement-based quantum networks.Aliro also works with industry and academic partners through the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the NSF Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN). Additionally, Aliro is involved in several quantum networking standards groups at IEEE and QED-C. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Language I/O | The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Their machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user-generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings in 150 languages over chat,email, article, and social support channels.Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Allure Security Technology | Allure's anti-phishing solution defends enterprise customers from attacks. Allure detects phishing campaigns in near real-time from the first customer attack. It identifies which customers are being phished and devalues anything the cybercriminal may have stolen from the customer and assists the enterprise in destroying the malicious site bytaking it down. It was developed with $10M in DARPA funding by a team of Columbia University scientists. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $10M | Series A | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| DBOS, Inc. | Developer of the world's first cloud-native operating system, DBOS, and the DBOS Cloud transactional serverless computing platform. A simpler, more secure way to build fault-tolerant cloud applications. Based on 3 years of joint MIT-Stanford research, led by DBOS co-founder and Turing Award laureate, Mike Stonebraker. | $8.5M | Seed | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| Hopara | Hopara is a big data visualization and exploration platform that helps you better focus your BI / ML efforts to yield better, faster results. | $842.2K | Seed | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Certificate Hero | Certificate Hero makes it more efficient and accurate for insurance brokers to issue, manage, and request certificates of insurance. | $1.9M | Seed | Oct 23, 2023 |  |
| Aliro Technologies | Aliro Quantum, The Quantum Networking Company™, offers AliroNet™ to emulate, pilot, and deploy entanglement-based quantum networks that are capable of running a wide variety of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. Aliro, spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University, includesworld-class experts in quantum and classical networking and is leading the charge in quantum network development by offering the foundational technologies needed for organizations around the world to build scalable and powerful distributed quantum systems. AliroNet™ users include utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers who are simulating, designing, piloting, orchestrating, and building the world's first entanglement-based quantum networks.Aliro also works with industry and academic partners through the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the NSF Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN). Additionally, Aliro is involved in several quantum networking standards groups at IEEE and QED-C. | $9.1M | Series A | Oct 10, 2023 |  |
| Language I/O | The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Their machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user-generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings in 150 languages over chat,email, article, and social support channels.Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two. | $8M | Series A | Jul 24, 2023 |  |
| Datanomix | Our Manufacturing Analytics platform combines machine data streams from your shop floor into actionable insights for your top floor.Focused on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) digital transformations, we extend value far beyond traditional data visualization and process productivity tools. We provide an easy-to-useand intuitive analytics framework to better understand the underlying drivers of cost, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance. | $12M |  | May 10, 2023 |  |

10 of 92 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Gutbrain Ventures invest in?

Gutbrain Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 92 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 Gutbrain Ventures's check size?

Gutbrain Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$8M at Seed, $5M–$17M at Series A and $17M–$55M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gutbrain Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Gutbrain Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Gutbrain Ventures?

The team at Gutbrain Ventures includes Robert Davoli (Founder & Managing Director; Founder and General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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