John Davidson
Founder & GP @ Startup Capital Ventures
Las Vegas, United States
John Davidson is a seed investor at Startup Capital Ventures in Las Vegas focused on Drones and Hardware. John is a former general partner of Startup Capital Ventures and is now a Special Fund Advisor. John has over 35 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur in the communications networking industry. Early in his career, John served as the University of Hawaii's liaison to the Technical Working Group for the ARPANET program, out of whichthe Internet was born. His role in the ARPANET program included participating in the design and implementation of the TCP/IP protocols. John founded and led two successful communications networking companies. The first company was Ungermann-Bass, Inc., the networking industry's first Local Area Networking company, which he co-founded in 1979. He served as the company's Chief Technology Officer and helped grow the company to $400 million in revenues and 1,600 employees. John led the company's development efforts through its IPO in 1983, and its $260 million sale to Tandem Computers in 1988. John left Ungermann-Bass (Tandem Computers) in 1993 to found his second company, Network Telesystems, Inc., a self-funded internet infrastructure software company, where he served as Chairman and CEO. The company supplied Internet Protocol software to ISPs, carriers and enterprise customers. NTS was acquired by Efficient Networks in 2000, which itself was acquired by Siemens in 2001.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
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Industries John Davidson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Drones 1 (33%)
- Hardware 1 (33%)
- Internet 1 (33%)
- Robotics 1 (33%)
- Software 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (67%)
- Convertible Note 1 (33%)
Investments
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Baru
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Baru simplifies custom cabinetry. We connect customers with local manufacturers using a self-service configurator, offering high-quality, astoundingly affordable cabinets delivered four times faster than traditional options. This solution is perfect for designers, resellers, and installers looking for efficient solutions.Digitizing the supplychain to eliminate long-distance logistics and inventory handling while using process automation to make local factories efficient extracts activities that waste 40% of the $100 billion industry's revenues. Baru and its partner network earn high operating margins through the digital transformation of traditional processes.Simultaneously, Baru's business model of de-globalization has a byproduct of supporting six United Nations Sustainable Development goals, including a 60% reduction in our carbon footprint relative to many of our competitors! | Seed / Jul 30, 2019 | |
Dronesmith Technologies
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Dronesmith Technologies creates development tools that allow businesses to integrate drone applications into existing workflows. Our software-first solution allows developers to design, test, and iterate their applications in a simulated environment prior to deploying on drone hardware.We help businesses who want to adopt drone technologies goto market faster by lowering the barrier for entry to robotics. Our technologies are being used to incorporate commercial solutions such as hazardous material detection, swarming, precision agriculture, entertainment, and much more. Our aim is to provide a breakthrough platform to power an entire ecosystem of next-generation drone solutions. | $185K / Convertible Note / Feb 01, 2015 | |
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Dronesmith Technologies
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Dronesmith Technologies creates development tools that allow businesses to integrate drone applications into existing workflows. Our software-first solution allows developers to design, test, and iterate their applications in a simulated environment prior to deploying on drone hardware.We help businesses who want to adopt drone technologies goto market faster by lowering the barrier for entry to robotics. Our technologies are being used to incorporate commercial solutions such as hazardous material detection, swarming, precision agriculture, entertainment, and much more. Our aim is to provide a breakthrough platform to power an entire ecosystem of next-generation drone solutions. | $195K / Seed / May 01, 2014 |
About Startup Capital Ventures
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.
Startup Capital Ventures Contacts
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Bob Rees
General Partner
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Catherine Ngo
Venture Partner
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Denis Coleman
Strategic Advisor
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Donavan Kealoha
Managing Director
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John Davidson
Founder & GP
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John Davidson invests primarily in Drones, Hardware and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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