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Duránd Fránçiscus “Corporate” Davis Jr. (born August 20, 1986), also known by his stage name DJ DEVO, is a Choctaw Aboriginal American founder-funder internet entrepreneur, software engineer, investor, venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, investment manager, private equity partner, business and technology executive, author, fashion designer, product and graphic designer, musician, DJ, turntablist, recording, mixing & mastering engineer, songwriter, record/vocal producer, podcaster and philanthropist. He is the younger cousin of legendary musician and hip-hop artist Brad “Scarface” Jordan and is also of French ancestry.
He is the creator of the Yuhmmy App, a social-taste super app, and the founder of its parent company, Labs Companies, Inc. (known simply as Labs [formerly LavLabs Inc.]), a superintelligence human-enhancement technology company based in Santa Monica, CA, where he currently serves as Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and controlling shareholder.
As a funder, he is the Co-Funder, Managing General Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of Family of Firms, M&D Ventures, Sivad VC, Davis&Davis Venture Partners, Madu Partners, DFD Venture Capital, Elz Ventures and Labs Investor Group, all located in Beverly Hills, California.
Duránd began his private equity career at just 17, investing in startups, entertainment properties, and music studios across the Midwest. His passion for venture capital and startups inspired him, alongside his wife Maya, to build Madu Fellows, SuperVC Academy, L2s and 2Ls, programs and networks designed to empower education, entrepreneurship and innovation.
His family’s financial, innovative and philanthropic endeavors are anchored by the Sivad Estate Trust (SET), SivadBank (SB), Sivad Wealth Investment Treasury (SWIT) [including Sivad VC and Sivad Fund], Sivad Science Initiative (2SI) [including Sivad Health] and Sivad Family Foundation (2SF) [including Sivad Academy] which focus on preserving and growing generational wealth for the Davises while advancing cutting-edge scientific research.
Born in Chicago, raised in Detroit, and now living in Beverly Hills, Duránd dedicates much of his time outside his business ventures to reading, researching, and raising his eight children. He is committed to reducing the global burden of asthma, a condition he and some of his children were born with. This dedication fuels his passion for advancing anti-aging, longevity, and life extension technologies.
Duránd and Maya also advocate for a healthy vegan lifestyle, promoting wellness through both personal example and broader initiatives.
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Labs Companies, Inc. (branded and doing business as Labs) is an American global superintelligence human-enhancement technology company headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. Established in 2025 through a restructuring of LavLabs Inc., Labs now serves as the parent holding company of LavLabs, itself apart of seven core family of labs: Labs Intelligence, Labs Realities, Labs Blocks, Labs Crypto, LabsX, Factory5227 and several specialized multilabs. Each lab is dedicated to advancing human capabilities through transformative products, services, platforms, and technologies (PSPTs) in ASI, digital economies, immersive realities, consumer internet, wearables and social experiences. The Labs Manifesto: Humanize life's moments. Our name “Labs” celebrates the field of Chemistry, and our test-tube emblem, Chemí (/kim-me/), reflects our commitment to innovation. At Labs, we exist to elevate possibility through design, intelligence, creativity and a shared imagination to expand human potential. Our mission: Inspire creativity to shape futures that help build communities and advance human capabilities. Our vision: Accelerate the evolution of embodied existence to improve lives by unlocking human capacity. We believe that every human on the planet could thrive greatly with equal access and opportunity to technology. Through our flagship, franchise, framework and fandom, family of brands, we create transformative human-experiences that connect humanity through creativity, community, and innovation. Our ecosystems and economies also spans across specialized cluster labs, including Labs Financial Group (managing Labs Payments, Yuhmmy Wallet and financial solutions within the FinTaste ecosystem), Labs Investor Group (managing early-stage, growth-stage, CVC, fund-of-funds, hedge fund, mutual fund, ETF, index fund and pension fund investments through Labs Ventures, Labs Capital, Labs Investments, Labs Funds, Labs Equity and Labs Shares), Labs Realty Group (managing YuhmmyHouse, a Social-Taste Super Club and the Tastespitality Ecosystem), Labs Start Studios (Hatch Studio, Launch Studio, and Lift Studio for entrepreneurial enhancements), Labs Learn Studios (Labs University, Labs Academy, and Labs Institute for educational enhancements), Labs Entertainment (managing Yuhmmyevents and its annual Yuhmmylicious Week and CraveCon), Labs Media (managing the official podcast by Labs: TechTubeTalks, and Yuhmmy: TastefulTalks). Our inaugural family of brand is Yuhmmy, the world’s first Social-Taste Super Brand and ecosystem designed for discovering, experiencing, and sharing anything tasty. Its Yuhmmy App brings people together to explore food, drinks, sweets, snacks, and recreational flavors in fun, funny, and flavorfully engaging ways. Featuring innovative tools like Tastechat, Taste Sports, Taste Drops, Cravecash, YuhmmyAI, and Yuhmmy AR/VR, Yuhmmy empowers a revolutionary “Tasteconomy” driven by Taste Intelligence. Labs is committed to reshaping the future of human-enhancements, seamlessly merging digital and physical worlds to redefine engagement, empowerment, education and earning. Our Labs Foundations supports sustainability, S.T.E.A.M. education, and scholarships for underserved communities through 5227.org and Lifthumankind.org, committing 1% of proceeds and resources via pledge 1%. *** Labs has raised over $30 million across five rounds from eleven investors—most recently closing a $22.5 million Series Seed at a $10 billion post-money valuation on April 18, 2025. Labs Newsroom: https://labscompanies.com/news/seriesseed Series Seed - Form D, SEC filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2064977/000206497725000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/labscompanies-seed--911017f3 Wellfound (prev. AngelList): https://wellfound.com/company/labscompanies/funding CB Insights: https://www.cbinsights.com/company/labscompanies/financials PitchBook: https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/541733-68#funding