Donavan Kealoha is a director at Startup Capital Ventures, an early stage investment firm with offices in Menlo Park and Honolulu. In this role, Donavan serves on the board of directors for portfolio companies AreaMetrics and Hobnob; he is also a board observer with Breinify. Donavan is active in the community. He co-founded and serves as Executive Director of Purple Mai’a, a 501(c)(3) non-profit EdTech startup, focused on providing indigenized tech education to underserved, high opportunity youth across Hawaii. A proud product of the Hawaii public educational system, Donavan graduated from Lāna’i High School and holds a BA, JD, and MBA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.