Harold Hughes

Founder & CEO at Divi

Speaker

Harold Hughes is the Founder & CEO of Divi, a platform becoming the system of record for early-stage investors. Divi provides angels and emerging managers with a centralized intelligence layer to track portfolio companies, surface key signals, and make better decisions in an asset class that has historically operated on fragmented data, inconsistent updates, and intuition.

More people can invest in private markets today than ever before—but they’re doing it with worse tools than public market investors had 20 years ago.

Built from Harold’s experience as both a founder and an active angel investor, Divi addresses a core problem in early-stage investing: investors are often the last to know when something is going wrong. By structuring founder updates, tracking company performance over time, and layering in market and competitive intelligence, Divi enables investors to move from reactive to informed, value-add partners.

Harold has invested in over 30 companies across sectors, including consumer, fintech, and emerging technology, with portfolio companies such as Liquid Death, AG1, and Partake Foods. His experience—both sending investor updates as a founder and analyzing them as an investor—directly informs Divi’s design and long-term vision.