# John D'Orazio

> John D'Orazio is a seed investor at Ikove Advisory Partners backing Medical and Health Care. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ikove Advisory Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ikove-advisory-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johntdorazio/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/JohnTDOrazio
- Website: https://www.protonenterprises.com/

John D'Orazio is a seed investor at Ikove Advisory Partners in New York focused on Medical and Health Care. John D'Orazio is the Founder and Managing Partner of Proton Enterprises. He previously worked at SlideMoor as an Executive Partner. John D'Orazio attended Xavier University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $245k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 3 | 18% |
| Health Care | 3 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 18% |
| Gaming | 2 | 12% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 12% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 53% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 12% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AssetWatch | AssetWatch is a leader in proactive and predictive maintenance solutions, providing a rapidly deployable, end-to-end remote condition monitoring service. We help eliminate unplanned downtime for global manufacturers and simplify the predictive maintenance process by providing a network of wireless sensors and communication hubs, cutting-edgesoftware, and condition monitoring engineers who condense and decipher the noise of data – making it more qualitative than just quantitative with expert prescriptive recommendations. By combining predictive analytics via machine learning in the software with the prescriptive insights of a certified expert, AssetWatch gives you way more than just the standard "pass/fail". We truly are a partner in the journey, helping change the culture of maintenance and reliability teams from reactive to proactive. | $4M |  | Sep 27, 2019 |  |
| Vascular Genesis | A medical device company laying the foundation for vascular conduit replacement with its line of cell-free, synthetic scaffold products -- with self-healing capabilities that lower the risk of rejection, infection, and stenosis. Funding prior to formation: $2.5 million. |  | Seed | May 30, 2017 |  |
| Atreon Orthopedics | A medical device company building a line of orthopedic products that provide a structure for tissue growth and healing of sports medicine injuries including tendon ruptures/tears. |  | Seed | May 30, 2017 |  |
| RenovoDerm | A medical device company building a line of wound care products that provide a structure for tissue growth and promote faster healing of wounds—while reducing scar tissue. Funding prior to formation: $1.6 million. |  | Seed | May 30, 2017 |  |
| Wright Electric | Wright Electric, Inc. is building technologies for large commercial airplanes. The company is currently developing their flagship Airplane, the Wright 1, which will be a 186-seat single aisle airliner with an 800 mile range. The company hopes to achieve entry to service for the Wright 1 by 2030 and is working with commercial airlines includingeasyJet and VivaAerobus. In addition to the newly announced U.S. DOE’s ARPA-E funding, the company is funded by Y Combinator, the Clean Energy Trust and venture funds. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| AssetWatch | AssetWatch is a leader in proactive and predictive maintenance solutions, providing a rapidly deployable, end-to-end remote condition monitoring service. We help eliminate unplanned downtime for global manufacturers and simplify the predictive maintenance process by providing a network of wireless sensors and communication hubs, cutting-edgesoftware, and condition monitoring engineers who condense and decipher the noise of data – making it more qualitative than just quantitative with expert prescriptive recommendations. By combining predictive analytics via machine learning in the software with the prescriptive insights of a certified expert, AssetWatch gives you way more than just the standard "pass/fail". We truly are a partner in the journey, helping change the culture of maintenance and reliability teams from reactive to proactive. | $1.4M |  | Oct 16, 2016 |  |
| AssetWatch | AssetWatch is a leader in proactive and predictive maintenance solutions, providing a rapidly deployable, end-to-end remote condition monitoring service. We help eliminate unplanned downtime for global manufacturers and simplify the predictive maintenance process by providing a network of wireless sensors and communication hubs, cutting-edgesoftware, and condition monitoring engineers who condense and decipher the noise of data – making it more qualitative than just quantitative with expert prescriptive recommendations. By combining predictive analytics via machine learning in the software with the prescriptive insights of a certified expert, AssetWatch gives you way more than just the standard "pass/fail". We truly are a partner in the journey, helping change the culture of maintenance and reliability teams from reactive to proactive. | $1.4M |  | Oct 16, 2016 |  |
| Mezmo | Mezmo, formerly LogDNA, is an observability platform to manage and take action on your data. It ingests, processes, and routes log data to fuel enterprise-level application development and delivery, security, and compliance use cases. | $1.3M |  | Jul 20, 2016 |  |
| Mezmo | Mezmo, formerly LogDNA, is an observability platform to manage and take action on your data. It ingests, processes, and routes log data to fuel enterprise-level application development and delivery, security, and compliance use cases. | $1.3M | Seed | Jul 20, 2016 |  |
| Wonder | Wonder is a food technology company that operates a mealtime platform offering restaurant meals, prepared foods, meal kits, and food delivery through a unified ordering experience. It develops and manages food preparation, ordering, and delivery using proprietary technology, including its Infinite Kitchen food robotics platform. The companypartners with chefs and restaurant brands to provide a variety of meal options that customers can order through its platform. It also manages the preparation and fulfillment process to support delivery and pickup services across its locations. Additionally, Wonder expands its food ecosystem through the operation and integration of restaurant concepts, meal kit services, and delivery capabilities. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Proton Enterprises](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/proton-enterprises) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Ikove Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ikove-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aafmanagement) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arabangel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ikove Advisory Partners

VC Fund · Columbus, United States

Ikove Advisory Partners is a venture development company that pursues early-stage investments with an emphasis on technology commercialization. Through its proprietary Startup Nursery, in partnership with multiple U.S. research institutions, Ikove identifies and validates developing high-impact technologies, providing capital and commercializationresources to bridge the gap between R&D and VC funded rounds.Ikove Advisory Partners was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Columbus , Ohio.

1 contacts available at Ikove Advisory Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John D'Orazio | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-dorazio |

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## FAQ

### What does John D'Orazio invest in?

John D'Orazio invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 17 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 John D'Orazio's check size?

John D'Orazio typically joins rounds of $245k–$1.3M 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 John D'Orazio participates in.

### When did John D'Orazio last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John D'Orazio closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 17 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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