Prevail Private Capital adds California sports tech firm to portfolio

Kerry Lawing is founder of Leawood-based Prevail Wealth Strategies.

By James Dornbrook – Staff Writer, Kansas City Business Journal

Nov 14, 2025

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What’s This?

• Prevail Private Capital invested in Svexa as its 10th portfolio addition.
• Svexa provides AI-driven software for athlete training and health optimization.
• The funding will help Svexa expand its performance analytics platform.

A Leawood-based private equity fund called Prevail Private Capital made a strategic investment in a California company, the firm’s 10th addition to its portfolio.

The fund’s latest target was Svexa, which stands for Silicon Valley Exercise Analytics Inc. Svexa was founded in 2018 and has its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The company provides artificial intelligence-driven algorithms and software to help athletes optimize their training, performance, recovery and general health. This

Prevail Private Capital was established in 2017 and is managed by Leawood-based Prevail Innovative Wealth Strategies, which is led by Kerry Lawing. The fund targets investments in high-growth sectors such as health care, technology, consumer products and emerging opportunities. It prioritizes early-stage investments with a goal of maximizing investor equity. It typically will deploy follow-up capital into its portfolio companies for sustained value creation.

“The world is data-rich but insight poor,” Svexa CEO Mikael Mattsson said in a release. “By combining deep scientific expertise in exercise physiology with advanced AI and real-world application, we deliver truly individualized recommendations at scale. With Prevail’s partnership, we’re accelerating our mission to make precision performance and health optimization accessible to everyone.”