Bob Davoli

CEO at Aliro, Founder and General Partner at Gutbrain Ventures

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 31 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Observer
Nov 2021
iRestify is more than just a building maintenance company. It is an all-in-one, technology-driven solution for property cleaning and maintenance. iRestify provides both the property maintenance services, as well as the technology to remotely monitor maintenance operations across a property managers portfolio - ensuring consistent, measurable, and scalable quality results. Trusted by many of the largest North American property management brands, iRestify is not just about technology - It integrates people, processes, and quality performance with technology. With iRestify, property managers gain full control and visibility of maintenance operations across all their properties - remotely and in real-time. This allows enhanced benefits in efficiency, productivity, and ultimately an increase in the value of their assets.
Board Member
Mar 2011
Mobiquity, part of Hexaware, is a digital enabler that partners with the worlds leading brands. We design, build, market and maintain world-class digital products & services that deliver real business value for our clients and immersive experiences for their customers We are an AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner and have worked with AWS since 2011 to deliver 100% cloud-based innovation to its clients. Mobiquity leverages AWS tools and services to design and build secure, cloud-native solutions across web, mobile, IoT, chat and call center. To learn more, visit us at www.mobiquity.com or follow @MobiquityInc on Twitter.
Board Member
Sep 2007
Azuki Systems is leading the video delivery revolution to any screen over any network. Azuki’s solutions deliver rich, protected content to any device over any network, allowing content owners, enterprises and service providers to capitalize on the explosive growth of smartphones, tablets and multiple screens. The Azuki Media Platform™ enables service providers, mobile operators and brand-name media to combine the power of over-the-top delivery with the highest quality of user experience, content protection, scale and reliability. Founded in 2008 and based in Acton, Mass., Azuki is led by an executive team renowned for repeated success in launching disruptive technologies and scaling companies that have solved key technology challenges and provided their customers with a competitive edge. Azuki Systems is now part of Ericsson. Visit http://www.ericsson.com/azukisystems for more information.
Board Member
Apr 2007
Recyclebank inspires and rewards smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future. It brings together people, businesses and communities to achieve real world impact. By participating in household recycling and learning how to live more sustainable lifestyles, more than 4 million people earn points that translate into real savings for community and national brands. Recyclebank’s online shop, OneTwine.com, combines the company’s sustainability expertise and rewards program to help people choose products that are better for their home, their wallet and the planet. Recyclebank is a Certified B Corporation.
Board Member
Dec 2006
Vlingo is a Virtual Assistant that turns your words into action by combining voice to text technology, natural language processing, and Vlingo’s Intent Engine to understand the user’s intent and take the appropriate action. Simply speak to your phone to connect with the people, businesses and activities that are important to you.
Board Member
Jun 2006
CallMiner is the global leader in AI-powered conversation intelligence to drive better customer experience, operational efficiency and business improvement. Powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, CallMiner delivers the industry’s most comprehensive platform to analyze omnichannel customer interactions at scale, allowing organizations to interpret sentiment and identify patterns to reveal deep understanding from every conversation. By connecting the dots between insights and action, CallMiner enables companies to identify areas of opportunity to drive business improvement, growth and transformational change more effectively than ever before. CallMiner is trusted by the world’s leading organizations across retail, financial services, healthcare and insurance, travel and hospitality, and more.
Board Member
Dec 2005
Interactions provides Intelligent Virtual Assistants that seamlessly combine artificial intelligence and human understanding to enable businesses and consumers to engage in productive conversations. With flexible products and solutions designed to meet the growing demand for unified, multichannel customer care, Interactions is delivering significant cost savings and unprecedented customer experience for some of the largest brands in the world. Founded in 2004, Interactions is headquartered in Franklin, Massachusetts with additional offices in Indiana, New Jersey and New York. For more information, visit www.interactions.com.
Board Member
Dec 2005
Cloud FastPath is now a Box company. For more details about the new Box Shuttle please visit box.com/shuttle.
Board Member
Nov 2004
Rave Mobile Safety was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2022 and is now part of Motorola Solutions’ ecosystem of safety and security technologies. Rave Mobile Safety is a leading provider of a critical communication, collaboration and incident management platform that helps organizations to save lives, manage crisis events and increase resiliency. From catastrophic disasters to everyday emergencies, our solutions help enable critical data sharing, mass notification and emergency response coordination. About Motorola Solutions | Solving for safer Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com.
Board Member
May 2004
aPriori is the leading provider of digital manufacturing simulation software that brings product design and sourcing teams closer to production. By leveraging the digital twin within our digital factories, we automatically generate design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for cost (DTC) insights, helping manufacturers collaborate across the product development process to make better design, sourcing and manufacturing decisions that yield higher value products in less time. aPriori solutions are now available either in the cloud or on-premise. To learn more about aPriori, visit www.apriori.com or call 1.978.371.2006.
Board Member
Sep 2003
Board Member
May 2002
ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The retention repository offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier, delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks. ExaGrid has physical sales and pre-sales systems engineers in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Canada, Chile, CIS, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iberia, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Nordics, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and other regions. Key product features: * Global replication across private, hybrid, and public clouds * Lowest TCO with scale-out architecture * Heterogeneous backup application support (25+ backup applications and utilities) * Instant restore/VM boots - 20x faster than deduplication appliances * Shortest backup window - 3x faster than deduplication appliances * Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery
Board Member
May 2002
Initiate Systems enables you to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Our master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple sources, even outside the firewall. This allows you to unlock the value of your data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements.
Board Member
Jul 2001
About GlassHouse Technologies GlassHouse provides vendor-independent data center consulting and managed services, guiding customers through the complexities of cloud, virtualization, storage, security and workspace. We enable clients to evolve to a services-enabled data center providing on-demand, elastic services and agility, and enabling IT to focus on innovation. We consider the people, processes, policies and technology in place and create a customized plan that mitigates risk, reduces cost and improves efficiency, driving business value rather than technology outcomes. For more information, visit www.GlassHouse.com, visit the GlassHouse blog for expert commentary on key data center issues, and follow us on Twitter @GlassHouse_Tech. For available GlassHouse career opportunities in the US please visit: http://www.GlassHouse.com/careers For available GlassHouse career opportunities in the UK please email your CV to: careersuk@GlassHouse.com For available GlassHouse career opportunities in Australia please email your CV to: GH-careers-Australia@GlassHouse.com
Board Member
Aug 2000
Mapp helps marketers build personalized customer experiences through our SaaS platform, Mapp Marketing Cloud. Our powerful technology combines AI-powered digital analytics and marketing automation to collect and unify customer data, extract insights, and trigger personalized campaigns across email, SMS, app, and your website. Mapp Marketing Cloud helps B2C and D2C companies: - Unify customer data from various sources like websites, eCommerce, loyalty platforms, CRMs, and mobile apps, build customer profiles, and enrich these with compliant first-party data collection. - Convert data into actionable insights around each customer’s socio-demographic, behavior, and preferences to create engaging online and offline experiences. - Personalize content using these customer insights and automate cross-channel marketing across your website, emails, SMS, mobile/web push notifications, and in-app messages. - Continuously monitor and optimize your campaigns with the help of AI to help drive high engagement, capitalize on new opportunities, activate churning customers, and build customer loyalty. More than 700 companies chose Mapp for their marketing needs, including well-known brands such as Ella’s Kitchen, Farrow & Ball, Furla, Admiral Group, GLD Group, Pan Macmillan, Pladis, and many more. Weve been on the market for over 20 years and constantly innovate our products and services to ensure our clients have the best support, with our global offices in London, San Diego, Berlin, Munich, Milan, and Paris.
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2021
Board Observer
Nov 2021
iRestify is more than just a building maintenance company. It is an all-in-one, technology-driven solution for property cleaning and maintenance. iRestify provides both the property maintenance services, as well as the technology to remotely monitor maintenance operations across a property managers portfolio - ensuring consistent, measurable, and scalable quality results. Trusted by many of the largest North American property management brands, iRestify is not just about technology - It integrates people, processes, and quality performance with technology. With iRestify, property managers gain full control and visibility of maintenance operations across all their properties - remotely and in real-time. This allows enhanced benefits in efficiency, productivity, and ultimately an increase in the value of their assets.
Member Board Of Directors
Feb 2021
Language I/Os software enables monolingual (i.e., English speaking-only) customer support teams to chat, email, and provide self-service support in over 100 languages in real-time. With our unique machine translation technology, we can get your team up and running with accurate, secure translations for your company and industry within 24 hours. Our GDPR compliant and ISO-27001 certified software integrates with all major customer relationship management systems (CRMs) including Salesforce, Zendesk, and Oracle. By providing translations to your customer service agents in the platforms they already use, we empower them to respond to customer email and chat queries with the click of a button. We are the mothership of multilingual customer support. Welcome aboard!
2012
Managing Director
Jan 2012
We believe it’s critically important that entrepreneurs seek venture capital investors with experience in the trenches starting and running entrepreneurial companies themselves. Our first-hand experience allows us to give early-stage companies both tactical and strategic guidance and access to a powerful business network. We work hard on behalf of our portfolio companies. We know business doesn’t always go as planned, but because we’ve invested in the best and brightest entrepreneurs, together we adapt and create success. We invest in early stage information technology firms, enabling infrastructure platforms, mobile and digital media, as well as technology-enabled services companies. Typically, we strive to be the first institutional money invested in a company, and we make occasional later stage investments in capital efficient opportunities.
2011
Founder and Managing Director
May 2011
Gutbrain Ventures is an independent venture firm that invests primarily in enterprise software companies and has been making investments for thirty years. There are five variables available to assess the worthiness of any investment: people, technology, market, business model and competition. If it takes more than five minutes to size a market, it’s probably not a large enough market; all the different business models are well-known, and the competition can be readily assessed. Hence, it all comes down to the people and technology. We look for passionate and driven Founders with innovative and disruptive ideas. We dream along with the entrepreneurs! Bob Davoli was the Co-Founder and CEO of SQL Solutions and CEO of Epoch Systems. SQL Solutions was bootstrapped without any venture capital and sold to Sybase in 1990 before they went public. The stock deal resulted in over $100M of value for the SQL Solutions shareholders. Epoch Systems was sold to EMC in 1993 resulting in a 7.8X gain for Sigma Partners and a 14X gain for Gutbrain Ventures.
Board Member
Mar 2011
Mobiquity, part of Hexaware, is a digital enabler that partners with the worlds leading brands. We design, build, market and maintain world-class digital products & services that deliver real business value for our clients and immersive experiences for their customers We are an AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner and have worked with AWS since 2011 to deliver 100% cloud-based innovation to its clients. Mobiquity leverages AWS tools and services to design and build secure, cloud-native solutions across web, mobile, IoT, chat and call center. To learn more, visit us at www.mobiquity.com or follow @MobiquityInc on Twitter.
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