Kevin Davis
Limited Partner at Santa Barbara Venture Partners
Santa Barbara, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director, Artificial General Intelligence: Information | Amazon Santa Barbara Site Lead
2017 - Current
Working to deliver information to customers in the best ways possible. [10.20-10.21] Sr. Manager, Product Management - Technical [10.18-10.20] Sr. Manager, Program Management [05.17-09.18] Manager, Program Management
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Vice Chair & Board Member
2022
[07.23-Present] Executive Committee Our mission is to increase economic prosperity on the Central Coast of California, through big thinking, bold action and regional collaboration, with a vision of a Central Coast where current and future generations have the opportunity to thrive. Learn more: https://reachcentralcoast.org/
Limited Partner
2021
Venture Capital firm specializing in SaaS and AI companies
Limited Partner
2022
Venture capital firm that helps its portfolio companies with customer acquisition and marketing.
Investor
2018
Golden Palm was an early leader in investment in Africa tech companies. We focus on FinTech, eCommerce and Health. My investments with GPIC include: Flutterwave | Wasoko | Andela | mPharma | Tizeti | Jetstream | Autochek | Chaka | Pastel | ILLA | WapiPay | Eksab | TAP | Ceviant | Renda
Investor
2018
https://mixmode.ai/ MixMode is a no-rules Cybersecurity platform, serving enterprises with large, complex data environments across a variety of industries. MixMode delivers a patented, self-learning platform that acts as the Intelligence Layer to detect both known and unknown attacks, including novel attacks designed to bypass legacy cyber defenses dependent on rules and threshold-based detection.
MixMode is a self-supervised AI platform to defend against cyber attacks.
Raised $62,329,000.00 from PSG Equity and Entrada Ventures.
Investor
2022
https://guavahealth.com/ Our goal is to build an enduring company that measurably improves both our own health and the health of our fellow humans worldwide. This is reflected in our business model - we sell products directly to you and to those trying to keep you healthy so that our incentives are directly aligned with your health goals.
Guava Health is a patient-centric app that tracks medical data, lab tests, and fitness equipment.
Investor
2022
https://www.autovisas.com/ Every immigration professional knows the pain of doing the boring stuff: repetitive, manual processes that eat away at the workday and leave little time for the human side of immigration. At AutoVisas, we're on a mission to flip the script with a simple solution: Automate the boring stuff.
Investor
2018 - 2021
[Exit] SecurityAdvisor was acquired by KnowBe4 in 21Q4.
SecurityAdvisor provides the only personalized security awareness platform that quantifiably reduces security incidents
Raised $7,300,000.00 from Cyber Mentor Fund, ClearSky, SixThirty and Crosslink Capital.
Vice President
2012 - 2017
Graphiq was acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. in May 2017. [01.16-05.17] Vice President of Revenue & Operations [04.15-12.15] Senior Director of Revenue, Publishing & Operations [07.14-03.15] Director of Ad Tech & Analytics [12.13-06.14] Director of Business Category & Corporate Strategy [03.13-11.13] Associate Director of Revenue Operations [04.12-02.13] Manager of Business Solutions About Graphiq: Graphiq (formerly FindTheBest) was a data aggregation and visualization company that turns complicated data into contextually-rich presentations of the world's knowledge via a no-code platform.
Graphiq (formerly FindTheBest) is a data aggregation and visualization company.
Raised $32,000,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins, Montgomery & Co and Pritzker Group Venture Capital.
Education
M.S.
2008 - 2009
B.S.
2004 - 2008
High School
2000 - 2004