Devin Dunn

Devin Dunn is a finance and investment executive whose career sits at the intersection of technology private equity and operating leadership. He graduated from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business in 2013, earning a B.S. in Business Administration (finance, with a minor in computer science), reportedly summa cum laude with departmental honors. He began his career at Morgan Stanley in San Francisco as an investment banking analyst, working in the Financial Sponsors and Western Region coverage groups.

From roughly 2015 to late 2021, Dunn was at Francisco Partners, one of the largest technology-focused private equity firms, where he rose to Vice President. Over more than six years there he worked on multiple billion-dollar technology buyouts and several growth-equity investments, leading due diligence and M&A execution and working directly with portfolio companies, including board-level involvement. Francisco Partners' activity during his tenure included high-profile technology transactions such as the Dell Software Group carve-out (SonicWall and Quest), the acquisition of Comodo's certificate authority business, and the GoodRx investment that went public in 2020.

After Francisco Partners, Dunn moved into operating roles. From March 2022 to July 2023 he held several leadership positions at Design Everest — VP of Finance, Board Member, and Acting CEO. In August 2023 he became Chief Financial Officer of Civitas Learning, a higher-education software company, where he leads finance for a software business focused on student success and retention analytics. Civitas describes him as bringing "over a decade of experience in corporate finance, M&A, fundraising, and investing," having "worked with software companies of various sizes and stages to drive growth, insight, and results through finance and accounting."

Separately from his institutional roles, Dunn appears in several startup-investor databases (e.g., Foundersuite, AngelMatch) categorized as an individual angel investor targeting seed-stage companies — which is the origin of the "Angel Investors / Seed Round" framing in aggregator data.

• Sector: Technology and software — consistent with a decade spent evaluating and operating software businesses at Francisco Partners, Design Everest, and Civitas Learning.
• Stage (institutional): At Francisco Partners, his work spanned growth equity and large-cap technology buyouts (deals in the hundreds of millions to billions), including diligence, execution, and portfolio value creation.
• Stage (individual/angel): Listed in angel and seed databases as a seed-stage investor, reflecting personal early-stage activity rather than a fund mandate.
• What likely resonates: Given his operator-plus-investor background, founders with strong unit economics, clear finance/M&A pathways, and defensible software products fit his profile. No publicly stated personal thesis was found; the points above are inferred from his verifiable track record.