# Robert Davoli

> Robert Davoli is a Series A investor at Sigma Prime Ventures (Boston) backing Software and SaaS. See 116 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sigma Prime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-prime-ventures)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 116
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobdavoli
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Robertdavoli
- Website: https://www.gutbrainventures.com

Robert Davoli is a Series A investor at Sigma Prime Ventures in Boston focused on Software and SaaS. Bob Davoli is the Founder and General Partner of Gutbrain Ventures. He attended Ricker College and studied computer science at Northeastern University for two years.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 29 | 25% |
| SaaS | 13 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 10 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 9% |

112 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 25 | 22% |
| Series B | 20 | 17% |
| Seed | 13 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 10% |
| Series C | 11 | 9% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 51 | 44% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Elemental Machines | Elemental Machines is revolutionizing science-based industries with a smart lab platform that offers powerful, data-driven insights to improve laboratory operations, research, development, and manufacturing outcomes. Continuously monitoring equipment and environmental variables provides new levels of clarity, transparency, consistency, and improvedrepeatability and gathers new data sets for advanced analytics. | $41.9M | Series B | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| RevenueBase | RevenueBase replaces data nightmares for B2B companies with a complete and accurate Revenue Database as a Service that’s completely aligned with their go-to-market strategy. | $6M | Seed | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $6.8M | Seed | Feb 10, 2022 |  |
| Lumavate | Lumavate is an enterprise platform for building progressive web apps (PWAs) at scale. Through the Lumavate platform, companies deliver highly-personalized mobile experiences throughout the entire customer journey. These mobile experiences drive increased adoption and long-term engagement via smart activation methods. Visit lumavate.com to learnmore. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 116 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pbj-capital) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Kepha Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kepha-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Argon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argon-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Sigma Prime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-prime-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

## About Sigma Prime Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Sigma Prime Ventures invests in early stage technology companies focusing on SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, disruptive technologies and technology-enabled service companies. Sigma Prime Ventures primarily cover the East Coast, focusing on Boston, New York and Atlanta.Their first-hand experience allows us to give early-stage companies both tacticaland strategic guidance and access to a powerful business network. Their team has founded or cofounded 10 companies, helped run 10 companies, and collectively been responsible for exits worth over $4.2B in companies where they were operators.

5 contacts available at Sigma Prime Ventures.

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| --- | --- | --- |
| Donna Sears | Investor Relations & Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donna-sears |
| John Simon | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-simon |
| Jere Doyle | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jere-doyle |
| John Mandile | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-mandile |
| Paul Flanagan | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-flanagan |

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## FAQ

### What does Robert Davoli invest in?

Robert Davoli invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 116 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 Robert Davoli last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Robert Davoli closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 116 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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