Thomas Toy
With more than 30 years of venture capitalist experience, including extensive public company board and committee experience, Tom is a Managing Director of SCV. Tom has invested in early stage diversified IT, Healthcare and Clean Tech companies. He has served on boards of directors of numerous public and private companies, for which his expertise includes general business strategy, finance, marketing and sales, operations, corporate governance, special committees, investigations and audit committee. Tom’s current and past companies include:
- HealthCrowd (acquired by mPulse): Board member 2015-2022, former lead venture investor
- Hanwha Q CELLS (NASDAQ: HQCL; acquired by Hanwha): Board member 2007-2015, former Chairman of the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee
- UTStarcom (NASDAQ: UTSI): Board member 1995-2012, former Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Audit, Corporate Governance and Compensation Committees, former venture investor
- White Electronic Designs (NASDAQ: WEDC, acquired by Microsemi): Board member 1989-2010, former Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee, former lead venture investor
- SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR; partially acquired by Total SA): former co-lead venture investor
- Catalina Marketing (NYSE: POS; acquired by PE): former venture investor
- LifeCell (NASDAQ: LIFC, then acquired by Kinetic Concepts): former lead venture investor
- SyStemix (NASDAQ: STMX, then acquired by Sandoz/Novartis): former venture investor
- CafePress (NASDAQ: PRSS): Board member 2000-2006; former lead venture investor
Tom graduated from Northwestern University with BA and MBA degrees. He taught the New Venture Finance course at San Francisco State’s MBA school, and is a regular volunteer panelist for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Job Forum.
Donavan Kealoha
Donavan is a venture capitalist, experienced entrepreneur and operator, and community organizer. Donavan serves as Managing Director for SCV x SBI Fund. In this role, Donavan manages the overall operations of the firm, leads investments in promising early-stage companies, and provides support and guidance to portfolio companies. He currently sits on the board of directors of portfolio company Shifted Energy.
Prior to his current role, Donavan served as a Director with SCV Fund II, where he assisted the general partners in sourcing deals, conducting due diligence on potential companies, and managing companies post-investment.
Donavan is an experienced entrepreneur and operator. Prior to joining SCV, Donavan co-founded Adama Materials, a venture-capital backed materials science company (SCV Fund I portfolio company). Donavan served as the company’s first CEO and president, then as its CFO and Director of Administration. In 2012, Donavan co-founded Asio Corporation, a software development consulting firm, specializing in software and systems engineering and community building strategies for government, foundations, and nonprofits. In 2014, Donavan co-founded the Purple Maiʻa Foundation, a 501(c)(3) EdTech non-profit organization focused on education and empowering high opportunity youth in underserved Hawaii communities.
Donavan is a licensed attorney and a product of the Hawaiʻi public educational system. He holds a BA, and JD/MBA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Tomo Yoshida
Tomohiko (Tomo) Yoshida has been with the SBI Group for over 16 years where he has spent the past ten years in SBI’s venture capital arm. He currently holds the position as Deputy General Manager in the Overseas Business Administration Dept. (“OBAD”) of SBI Holdings. Tomo oversaw the establishment and performance of multiple overseas funds including funds in Israel and Singapore. His responsibilities involved assisting overseas offices with the establishment of joint venture funds with local partners and conducting due diligence on the investment deals brought to the Investment Committee for a potential investment through the overseas funds. He also played a key role in the monitoring of portfolio companies of the overseas funds as well as their periodic evaluation of each deal.
Additionally, Tomo also played a major role in the principal investments made by SBI Holdings, including dealfinding, conducting due diligence and deal management. As a representative for SBI Holdings, Tomo’s responsibilities with these portfolio companies included keeping track of the financial positions of each portfolio company, maintaining ongoing contact and assisting the companies in generating value-add from SBI Group.
Born in the United States, Tomo is a US citizen. Tomo holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from International Christian University, Tokyo.
Olin Lagon
Venture Partner
Olin Lagon is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist. Olin’s technical expertise is broad and multifaceted, spanning over two decades with many notable accomplishments along the way. He is the author of over a dozen patents. His designs have been adopted by Global 1000 companies across five different industries and his inventions have also been used in several institutions such as the Olympics and MIT. Olin has spoken at conferences worldwide including a keynote speaker at Microsoft’s Annual Developers Conference (creating energy storage using machine learning and existing household appliances).