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Venture Capitalist | Angel Investor | Strategic Advisor | Speaker
De'Havia's life mission is to help increase access to the financial system
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Venture Capitalist
De’Havia Stewart is a venture capitalist focused on early-stage and early-growth technology companies. She has helped invest $150M+ in early-stage venture capital across Seed through Series B and has participated in 40+ investments supporting companies at critical growth inflection points.
Her investment experience includes 5+ unicorn companies, including QuickNode, Notion, Cityblock Health, Brex, and Eight Sleep, alongside a broader portfolio spanning fintech, healthcare, and B2B software.
Her investment approach emphasizes disciplined growth, durable business models, and founders building solutions in large, often overlooked markets.
Angel Investor
De’Havia Stewart is an active angel investor and the co-founder of 1248 Angels, an investment group that writes checks up to $150k that is focused on backing early-stage founders building scalable solutions in large, often overlooked markets. Through 1248 Angels, she has backed 5+ early-stage companies, partnering closely with founders at the earliest stages of company formation. Amongst these investments, she has helped her portfolio founders raise an average of $2.5M in additional capital.
Her angel investing emphasizes strong founder market fit, early traction, and disciplined capital deployment, with investments spanning fintech, healthcare, and technology-enabled services. 1248 Angels brings together a diverse network of operators and high-conviction investors to support founders beyond capital through strategic guidance and long-term alignment.
Strategic Advisor
De’Havia Stewart serves as an advisor in senior investment leadership roles across venture capital and private investment platforms. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Mustard Seed Capital Management, an advisory platform through which she takes on outsourced investment leadership positions, including roles equivalent to Chief Investment Officer and Vice President of Investments.
Through this work, De’Havia supports investment platforms that deploy seven-figure checks, advising on portfolio construction, underwriting, diligence, and capital allocation. In addition to investment platform leadership, she advises select high-growth startups across fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology, with a focus on capital strategy and scalable operating models, including a mission-driven fintech and real estate platform co-founded by Dr. Bernice King and Ashley Bell focused on expanding access to homeownership.
De’Havia also contributes to the venture and entrepreneurship ecosystem through nonprofit and governance roles focused on expanding access to education, capital, and opportunity. Her service includes board, advisory, and investment committee roles supporting early-stage founders, small businesses, and underrepresented entrepreneurs.
Inspiring Speaker
De’Havia Stewart speaks to founders, investors, operators, and students on early-stage investing, access to capital, and building durable companies with discipline and long-term perspective. Her talks draw on firsthand experience deploying capital, supporting founders through scale, and operating inside institutional investment platforms.
She has spoken at leading institutions and global platforms including the New York Stock Exchange, Yale University, GITEX, INBOUND, Google, and Techstars.
Her speaking engagements focus on insights around venture capital, founder decision-making, and expanding access to opportunity across the innovation ecosystem.
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