About this speaker
Donavan is a venture capitalist, experienced entrepreneur and community organizer. Donavan currently serves as Managing Director for Startup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) technology software companies in FinTech, Enterprise & SaaS and Deep Tech. Donavan serves on the boards of SCV portfolio companies Hobnob, Shifted Energy and is a board observer with Breinify.
Donavan is an experienced entrepreneur. Prior to joining SCV, Donavan co-founded Adama Materials, a venture-capital backed materials science company. Donavan served as the company’s first CEO and president, then as its CFO and Director of Administration. In 2012, Donavan co-founded Asio Corporation, a software development consulting firm, specializing in software and systems engineering and community building strategies for government, foundations, and nonprofits. Asio projects included: software and systems to support the world's largest indigenous people's registry program and software to help the City and County of Honolulu deploy over a hundred of million dollars of emergency relief.
In 2015, Donavan co-founded the Purple Maiʻa Foundation, a 501(c)(3) EdTech non-profit organization focused on empowering high opportunity youth in underserved Hawaiʻi communities. Under Donavan’s leadership, Purple Maiʻa has rapidly grown to become a keystone organization in Hawaiʻi's innovation ecosystem.
Donavan is a licensed attorney and a product of the Hawaiʻi public educational system. He holds a BA, and JD/MBA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
