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Bob Davoli

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Smart Money Rating: 93 out of 100

Founder & General Partner, Gutbrain Ventures

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Gutbrain Ventures
Title
Founder & General Partner
Role
General partner
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Record updated 29 September 2026

About

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.

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Background

Education
Bob has a B.A. in History from Ricker College and studied computer science at Northeastern University for two years.Source (opens in a new tab)

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