The Venture Codex Logo

The Venture Codex

Govo Venture Partners

154 South Park Avenue Suite #201, Winter Park, FL, 32789, United States

Overview

GOVO Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on backing startups that work with government customers.

Total investments
5
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
2
Visit website

Investment portfolio

  • Relativity Networks

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

    Relativity Networks manufactures and sells hollow-core fiber, a technology that transmits light through a vacuum chamber in the fiber’s center to achieve about 30% lower latency versus conventional fiber. The company says conventional fiber carries a signal at roughly five microseconds per kilometer, while its hollow-core fiber reduces that to about 3.5 microseconds per kilometer. Relativity is targeting data center and multi-campus deployments where reduced latency across larger geographic spans can enable synchronized, distributed compute. The company recently secured a $40 million follow-on order from a leading hyperscaler and raised $22 million via a SAFE note round. CEO Jason Eisenholz positions the technology as a way to expand the geographic reach of large-scale AI and data center systems. The articles do not provide revenue, user, or founding-year information.

  • Rezilient Health

    Led · Series A · Oct 2024

    Rezilient Health operates CloudClinics that connect patients with physicians using remote digital diagnostic tools for primary care, specialty care, and in-house labs, plus 24/7 messaging. The company emphasizes value-based care and aims to reduce employers’ total cost of care by increasing access and utilization of those services. Led by CEO and Co‑Founder Dr. Danish Nagda and COO and Co‑Founder Jeff Gamble, PhD, Rezilient combines clinical care with digital tools to deliver concierge-style services. The company intends to use new funding to expand its scope of services and bring concierge healthcare to more people regardless of economic status. Financially, Rezilient closed a $10M Series A in March 2024 to support that expansion. The business model targets employer-sponsored care and broader access through its tech-enabled clinic footprint. Rezilient Health operates membership-based CloudClinics that combine physical, strategically located spaces with connected diagnostic systems and an advanced video platform so doctors can deliver remote primary care. When patients arrive, a nurse facilitates vitals, labs, and physical exam elements while physicians appear on a monitor and control integrated digital devices to listen to hearts or examine eardrums in real time. The Rezilient app guides patients to same-day appointments, enables telehealth follow-ups, and the average appointment length is about 30 minutes. The service is accepted by major insurers including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare. Founded in 2016 by Danish Nagada, MD and Jeff Gamble, Ph.D., the company is based in St. Louis and plans to expand its engineering and software development teams and roll out CloudClinics in the St. Louis area. Rezilient is launching its first CloudClinics with major employers in fall 2021 offering primary care, urgent care, and mental healthcare, and a national rollout is slated for 2022. The company recently closed an oversubscribed $2.5M seed round to support these efforts.

  • MARS Suite

    Led · Seed · Apr 2024

    MARS Suite offers an integrated suite of cybersecurity technologies designed to accelerate how small and medium-sized organizations deploy cyber and risk programs. The platform combines IT and network scanning, alerting, detection and response technologies that previously powered security and compliance as-a-service offerings for MSPs and MSSPs. Its capabilities are surfaced through proprietary dashboards, reports, automation, and specialized services and can be deployed on-premise or via a SaaS model. The company distributes through a national network of MSPs, MSSPs, platform and industry channel partners as part of security and compliance as-a-service bundles. MARS was commercialized through a joint venture between All Points Logistics and Mission Multiplier and the technology was initially deployed at NASA under a security operations engineering contract. Financially, the company announced a $2 million seed round co-led by GOVO Venture Partners and AP Ventures.

  • MAVI.io

    Led · Seed · Mar 2024

    Mavi builds OnMyWay, an in-car retail marketplace embedded into vehicle dashboards that lets users discover, order, pay, and pick up from curated retailers and restaurants. The platform is delivered via partnerships with automakers and can be pushed to cars through software updates; deployments include Stellantis, Audi, and Volvo. In April the company plans rollouts reaching 20 million cars and 200,000 long-haul trucks. Mavi’s product is fully automated from recommendations to payment and curbside pickup, and targets retailers seeking to recapture on-the-go commerce. CEO and founder Cynthia Hollen has over two decades of retail and eCommerce leadership; GOVO general partner Jonathan Kilman will join Mavi’s board. The company currently has a 14-person team and plans to hire four more, focusing on Miami hires in marketing, product, and restaurant tech sales. Mavi will use the new capital for product and business development. Mavi.io builds MAVI, an in-car retail marketplace that brings curated shopping, ordering, payment and curbside pickup to connected car dashboards. The MAVI OnMyWay™ solution connects the car’s interface and data to retailers’ e-commerce platforms while accounting for inventory, driver location, route, destination, payment preferences and loyalty memberships. Drivers can use MAVI for hands-free or dashboard ordering of coffee, meals, groceries and need-it-now items, and to coordinate services like dry cleaning and parking. The platform orchestrates recommendations, ordering, payment confirmation and timely curbside pickup, telling drivers where to park and notifying staff to deliver orders right to the car. MAVI will be available via the HARMAN Ignite Store beginning in mid-2022 and is running retail brand pilots with BurgerFi and Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings, with more partnerships to be announced in Q2. In 2021 Mavi.io was founded and the company emphasizes that its service can reduce trips and associated congestion, packaging and fuel compared with home delivery.

  • Kind Designs

    Led · Seed · Sep 2023

    Kind Designs develops Living Seawalls™, Living Seawall Tiles™, 3D-printed artificial reefs and living shorelines by combining large-scale 3D-printing with ecological engineering to protect coastal communities and restore marine ecosystems. The company has transitioned from residential projects to serving commercial, municipal, hospitality and federal defense customers. In 2025 it generated $1 million in revenue, has secured $10 million in contracted revenue and reports a $175 million active project pipeline, including a $2 million U.S. Navy contract. Recent projects include work for the Fontainebleau, Pagani and Ritz-Carlton in Miami Beach and municipal projects in Miami Shores and Longboat Key, and it has begun projects in New York City, Charleston and Nassau. Kind Designs intends to expand production capacity, enter new markets such as New York and California, and scale engineering and operations to meet growing municipal and federal demand.

Team

  • Jonathan Kilman

    General Partner

    LinkedIn
  • Rob Panepinto

    Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer

    LinkedIn