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    Startup Capital Ventures

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 2005

    Startup Capital Ventures (SCV) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2005. The firm invests $250K–$1M in capital-efficient B2B technology and enterprise software companies that have initial revenue and a path to near-term profitability.

    Their most common stage is seed (40% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $14.2M (across 27 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    19

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    Donavan Kealoha

    Donavan Kealoha

    Managing Director

    Seokjun Ko

    Seokjun Ko

    Managing Director

    Thomas Toy

    Thomas Toy

    Managing Director

    Olin Lagon

    Olin Lagon

    Venture Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    30 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Breinify logoBreinifySeed$11MJan 2024
    Speiz logoSpeizSeed—Dec 2022
    Glow logoGlowSeries A$22.5MNov 2022
    Growfitter logoGrowfitterSeries A$1MMar 2022
    Breinify logoBreinifySeed$11MMay 2021
    Breinify logoBreinifySeed—Dec 2020
    HHealthCrowdSeed$7.2MJul 2018
    MediaOcean logoMediaOceanUnknown$21.4MAug 2017
    AreaMetrics logoAreaMetricsSeed$2MMar 2016
    Xignite logoXigniteSeries C$20.5MJan 2016
    AreaMetrics logoAreaMetricsSeed$2MJan 2016
    VideoAmp, Inc. logoVideoAmp, Inc.Series A$15MNov 2015
    PlayFab logoPlayFabSeries A$7.4MFeb 2015
    Iotera logoIoteraUnknown$1MFeb 2015
    Iotera logoIoteraSeed$1MJan 2015
    Herlitz logoHerlitzSeed$2.1MJan 2015
    PlayFab logoPlayFabSeed$2.5MAug 2014
    Veestro logoVeestroSeed$375KJan 2014
    Silver Tail logoSilver TailSeries B$20MSep 2011
    Silver Tail logoSilver TailUnknown$20MJun 2011
    Xignite logoXigniteSeries B$10MJan 2011
    Silver Tail logoSilver TailSeries A$2MApr 2009
    Xignite logoXigniteSeries A$2.2MJan 2006
    Shifted Energy logoShifted EnergySeed$4.3M—
    Silver Tail logoSilver TailSeries B$20M—
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    Last updated: 20 October 2026