DVI Equity Partners

DVI Equity Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Tucson, Arizona. The firm specializes in micro-cap investments, primarily targeting start-up and early-stage companies. DVI Equity Partners aims to be the first institutional investor, focusing on Series A funding to support the growth and development of emerging businesses. Their investment strategy emphasizes technology-related sectors such as information technology, big data, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and fintech. While the firm prefers to invest in companies located in the Southwest region of the United States, including states like California, Arizona, and Texas, it prioritizes alignment with company potential over geographic considerations.

Ngoc Can

Principal

David Goldstein

President

Bob Griffin

Managing Partner

Nathan Levy

Partner

6 past transactions

Siren

Series A in 2019
Siren is a software company that provides an Investigative Intelligence platform to complex organizations and derive business value. The platform provides a unique combination of search, business intelligence, big data, link analysis and knowledge representation which advances the way organizations address some of the world’s most important data-driven problems. Siren makes it easier to use the data you collect to answer questions and make links, find patterns and relationships. It also uniquely enables this in real-time at a scale that companies and government organizations require. it easy to leverages and deploy data directly on backends such as Elasticsearch, relational databases, virtual data warehouses, and graph databases. Siren was awarded the Technology Innovation of the Year and Enterprise of the Year (SME) at the Information Technology Association of Galway (ITAG) Excellence Awards and also was named the Irish Startup of the Year at Ireland’s National Tech Excellence Awards. Siren was founded in 2014 and is based in Galyway, Ireland.

Electronic Design & Development

Private Equity Round in 2019
The company founded in 2005 focused around marine radio wireless applications and R&D solutions. In 2018, the company was purchased by the current owner, Sergio Cardona. The company has a strong history of innovative solutions for alert wireless systems using state-of-the-art sensors. The company has built up an elite team and has shifted focus to next-generation wireless products. ED2 can solve engineering challenges that others find too challenging. The company has over 80 combined years of RF radio, radar, software, and wireless systems experience. They integrate software and firmware, electronics, power management, sensors, RF and wireless best practices.

Shotzr

Seed Round in 2019
Shotzr, Inc. is a Denver-based company founded in 2016 that operates a platform designed to deliver fresh, contextual photo feeds tailored for social media marketers. The platform provides access to recent and locally relevant images that align with brand identity, enhancing customer engagement across various marketing channels. By focusing on delivering the right imagery for specific marketing moments, Shotzr supports a range of applications including campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, social media marketing, and search engine marketing landing pages. The company aims to improve the customer experience by helping marketers connect with their target audience through compelling visual content.

Appdome

Private Equity Round in 2019
Appdome Ltd. specializes in mobile application protection and integration solutions, catering to enterprises across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, and e-commerce. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company offers a Software-as-a-Service platform that enhances mobile application security and compliance while safeguarding against cyber threats, mobile fraud, and data theft. Its flagship product, the AppFusion platform, enables mobile developers to seamlessly integrate third-party functionalities into existing applications without the need for coding, thus accelerating development timelines and simplifying maintenance. Appdome's solutions encompass a wide range of services, including mobile security, enterprise access, authentication, identity management, and threat defense, positioning it as a leader in mobile integration and security.

Luminoso

Series B in 2018
Luminoso Technologies, Inc. provides a text analytics engine. Its dashboards and reports are studied by various people ranging from brand and product managers; to research and insight directors; to data scientists; to the heads of customer service departments; to account management at social media and PR agencies; and to the C-suite. Luminoso Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Luminoso, LLC. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tacit Innovations

Venture Round in 2018
Tacit Innovations Corp. designs and develops mobile applications that enable users to discover, browse, order, and pay for their meals at various restaurants. Its products include Maegan, a mobile platform that enables restaurant-goers to browse menus, manage their orders, and pay for their meals; and Maegan Mobile, an end-user mobile application that extends in-restaurant services directly to a consumer mobile device. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.