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
Leading a diverse team of product managers, data scientists, content operations specialists, and Amazon Scholars in delivering cutting-edge AGI solutions. My organization encompasses knowledge categorization, growth and personalization, content quality operations, and technical product development across global markets. Together we drive the strategic vision and technical roadmap for AGI Information initiatives, with full responsibility for product development, P&L ownership, go-to-market strategy, and scaling innovative AI solutions to advance Amazon's AGI capabilities.
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 [07.22-Present] Board Member 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
2024
https://www.unwrap.ai/ Turn customer feedback into revenue.
Unwrap.ai develops an AI-powered natural language processor platform to help companies analyze user feedback.
Raised $3,221,304.00.
Investor
2024
https://www.promptlayer.com/ The cleanest way to prompt engineer Edit, evaluate, deploy & repeat. Manage and monitor prompts with your whole team, including non-technical stakeholders.
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.
Education
M.S.
2008 - 2009
B.S.
2004 - 2008
High School
2000 - 2004