Dave Brown

Private Investor

📍 Jackson, Wyoming, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 United States20+ investments
25
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12
Early stage
5
Mid stage
0
Late stage
26y
Years active

Portfolio

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Seed Investor
Sep 2019
Benetic’s revolutionary technology solution for the retirement industry brings together advisors, recordkeepers, asset managers, and other plan vendors in one place: Benetic’s neutral platform. The Benetic solution supports the essential network of advisors, consultants, and retirement plan service providers by leveraging Silicon Valley-driven innovations and efficiencies tailored to the needs of the retirement industry. Whether as part of the RFP or proposal process, day-to-day oversight support for clients, or advising on periodic changes to client plans, Benetic’s technology, efficiencies of scale, and unique position of neutrality in the retirement industry converts months of work to mere minutes.
Investor and Adviser
Feb 2019
TangoTrade is a B2B fintech company that empowers small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to import and export with lower risks, costs, and complexity. Offering a full solution that combines financing, payment assurance and cross-border payment, TangoTrade reinvents the outdated letter of credit, which accounts for over $2.8 trillion in annual transaction volume. TangoTrade expands global business opportunities for SMBs by fundamentally improving trade finance without the traditional high banking fees and inefficiencies.
Private Investor and Adviser
Apr 2016
Plenty is a new kind of farm for a new kind of world. We’re on a mission to bring healthy food to the world while protecting the environment. Our pesticide-free, non-GMO leafy greens taste fresh-picked from the garden because they were. We grow and deliver locally, cutting transportation miles and reducing emissions. Plenty’s indoor farms mean fresh produce is always in season. We are a team of growers, plant scientists, engineers, artists, foodies and plant romantics working to improve the lives of plants, people, and the planet. We currently operate in South San Francisco, CA, and Laramie, WY. Our new Compton, CA site set to open in 2021 will be the world’s first, high-capacity indoor vertical farm. Plenty believes food justice is social justice. Equal access to healthy, nutritious food is fundamental to a quality life. We build farms in communities that need better access to food and jobs. Plenty provides living-wage, year-round jobs along with flavorful, nutrient-rich food to the communities we serve. We use automation and robotics so machines do the backbreaking labor while people perform new kinds of skilled agricultural, science and high-tech jobs. Now is the time to help Plenty achieve its mission to feed the world healthy food in a sustainable way. We are a start-up with expanding career growth opportunities. We are actively seeking those who embody our core values: find a way, down to earth, & grow together. These values guide how we work together as teammates, approach innovation and engage with customers. Does this sound like you? Join the mission as we improve human and planetary health by increasing access to craveable fruits and vegetables.
Investor
Jul 2015
Ladder combines the power of innovative technology with world-class financial and insurance expertise to make it easy for anyone to access life insurance.
Investor and Adviser
May 2015
Launched in 2014, AdmitSee helps students make better college application decisions with analytics and peer insights. The online platform features the largest searchable database of college application files – including essays, extracurriculars, test scores, and advice. The files are all uploaded by college students themselves and displayed in LinkedIn-style profiles. Prospective college students get to read real application examples and connect with the college students behind them. The revenue-share model offers college students an easy way to make money by passing down their personal application journeys and insights to younger students – for every view their profiles get, they earn a commission. Not only does it bring transparency to the black box of admissions, AdmitSee believes it pays to pay it forward. AdmitSee's mission is to level the admissions playing field so college is accessible to any student who has the smarts and the ambition to attend. True to its mission, AdmitSee offers affordable access. Users may pay a monthly fee of $49.99/mo or an annual fee of $169.99/yr to view an unlimited number of profiles and gain access to exclusive data insights. But, cost should never be a factor when it comes to access. Students who qualify for aid under college readiness programs can upgrade to unlimited access at no cost. AdmitSee's database boasts millions of data points that allow the team to apply data science to the admissions process. Now, both quantitative AND qualitative information can be analyzed to provide big picture admissions trends or personalized recommendations for individual users. The data is applicable not just for students but for institutional players as well to achieve better retention rates or improve recruitment methods. By providing cost-effective, direct access to data-driven peer insights, AdmitSee empowers applicants to improve their application strategies, find trusted peer mentors, and plan for their futures.
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2015
Cargo Chief is a technology company that was built to serve the capacity and rating needs of logistics professionals in the United States. Our patented technology provides the most accurate and current data in the truckload freight space so our customers can make superior buying decisions to grow profitably.
Investor and Advisor
Oct 2014
Voicekick helps you discover the power of your own voice. Our new "Pearl" app unlocks the power of storytelling in minutes by transforming the photos already on your iPhone into narrated videos. Share your Pearl storytelling videos to create deeper, more authentic, and more meaningful connections with your friends, followers, fans, and customers.
Investor and Board Adviser
Sep 2014
Sipree offers payments that give customers and vendors unprecedented choice to receive money in their preferred financial network. This includes 250+ payment options, including Direct-to-Bank, Digital Debit Card, Balance (Amazon, PayPal, Starbucks), Premium Retailer Gift Cards, and more. Best of all: receipt of money happens in just seconds – with no app downloads or onboarding required. Ideal for payments in: - Travel – Goodwill, Baggage, Re-accommodations, IROP - Legal Services -- Class Action, Anti-trust, and Bankruptcy settlements - Contractor/Freelancer Economy - Consumer Rebates, Rewards and Loyalty - Other large-scale one-time payouts Slash payment costs. Improve payout efficiency. Boost customer satisfaction. All from one simple, easy-to-use SaaS platform.
Investor and Advisor
Jul 2014
Grit Media's mission is to inspire, inform and empower the next generation through sports culture. We believe sports media is filled with talking heads and scripted statements. So, we're moving beyond the scores and highlights to bring original digital stories about real people and real issues.
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2013
The Commerce CO-OP, the first brand and shopper consortium, is an Ethereum-based blockchain protocol that supports the free exchange of data across the retail supply chain, spanning suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, shoppers and logistics providers; the network of parties that make, move, and sell products shoppers enjoy. With the Commerce CO-OP, external entities currently entrenched between supply chain participants will no longer be able to exploit their leverage over the ecosystem.
early stageRetail
Investor and Adviser
Jul 2012
C2FO is the world’s on-demand working capital platform, providing fast, flexible and equitable access to low-cost capital to businesses worldwide. Using patented Name Your Rate® technology and a suite of working capital solutions, companies can get paid sooner by the world’s largest enterprises — unlocking billions in risk-free capital. C2FO’s mission is to ensure that every business has the capital needed to thrive and has delivered more than $360 billion in funding around the world. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Kansas City, USA, with offices around the globe, C2FO is working to build a better, more inclusive financial system every day. Learn more at https://c2fo.com/company/
Investor and Adviser
Apr 2012
The largest global financial institutions use OpenFin’s intelligent workspaces and developer platform to help their teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively. Delight users and accelerate time-to-value with a workspace that does it all. Launch apps, automate tasks, configure complex layouts, search, context share, send and receive notifications and discover new apps. Our Chromium container provides all the tools you need to build Native Web Apps and deploy securely to locked-down desktops. Use our APIs to enable complex layouts, cross-app messaging, desktop notifications, secure OS access, and more. Clients expectations about how work gets done have changed. They don’t want siloed apps: they want a connected experience. Whether it’s more powerful layouts, unified notifications, or data flowing from one app to another - our tools empower you to give customers what they want. Join the OpenFin ecosystem and deliver elevated workspace experiences to your customers today. Move Fast. Break Nothing. OpenFin is the operating system for enterprise productivity, enabling app distribution, workspace management and workflow automation. Used by 90% of global financial institutions, OpenFin deploys more than 3,500 desktop applications to more than 2,400 buy-side and sell-side firms. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, CME Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, HSBC, ING Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital among others. The company is based in New York with offices in London and presence in Hong Kong.
Investor and Adviser
Mar 2012
Therapydia is a national network of Physical Therapy clinics featuring ongoing wellness programs like Yoga and Pilates. We strive to create an environment that is conducive to wellness with clinics that are well-appointed, well-equipped and well-staffed. Therapydia's clinic directors are expert thought-leaders in their fields, and are committed to the highest levels of patient satisfaction and long-term outcomes. Therapydia clinics use ReferralJET, our proprietary cloud-based software, and are connected to patients through our community website, Therapydia.com.
Board Member and Investor
Jul 2011
We enable organizations to win 43% more deals with a cloud-based ROI platform that enables your sales team to not only tell your value story but show it visually. We’ve helped companies such as GE, Dell EMC and Verizon Connect identify, measure and communicate value to clients at every sales stage from prospect to repeat customer. Our customizable ROI calculator applications integrate with your sales methodologies and CRMs for a seamless alignment to provide the information you need to make strong ROI-relevant sales tools. Our team is ready to help you measure and report ROI to your potential customers. Visit https://valuecore.ai/video-demo-form/ to book your demo today!
Partner and Board Member
Sep 2010
A Financial Products Innovation Company (Formerly eBond Advisors) A more challenging market demands a better financial solution.
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2019
Seed Investor
Sep 2019
Benetic’s revolutionary technology solution for the retirement industry brings together advisors, recordkeepers, asset managers, and other plan vendors in one place: Benetic’s neutral platform. The Benetic solution supports the essential network of advisors, consultants, and retirement plan service providers by leveraging Silicon Valley-driven innovations and efficiencies tailored to the needs of the retirement industry. Whether as part of the RFP or proposal process, day-to-day oversight support for clients, or advising on periodic changes to client plans, Benetic’s technology, efficiencies of scale, and unique position of neutrality in the retirement industry converts months of work to mere minutes.
Investor and Adviser
Feb 2019
TangoTrade is a B2B fintech company that empowers small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to import and export with lower risks, costs, and complexity. Offering a full solution that combines financing, payment assurance and cross-border payment, TangoTrade reinvents the outdated letter of credit, which accounts for over $2.8 trillion in annual transaction volume. TangoTrade expands global business opportunities for SMBs by fundamentally improving trade finance without the traditional high banking fees and inefficiencies.
2016
Private Investor and Adviser
Apr 2016
Plenty is a new kind of farm for a new kind of world. We’re on a mission to bring healthy food to the world while protecting the environment. Our pesticide-free, non-GMO leafy greens taste fresh-picked from the garden because they were. We grow and deliver locally, cutting transportation miles and reducing emissions. Plenty’s indoor farms mean fresh produce is always in season. We are a team of growers, plant scientists, engineers, artists, foodies and plant romantics working to improve the lives of plants, people, and the planet. We currently operate in South San Francisco, CA, and Laramie, WY. Our new Compton, CA site set to open in 2021 will be the world’s first, high-capacity indoor vertical farm. Plenty believes food justice is social justice. Equal access to healthy, nutritious food is fundamental to a quality life. We build farms in communities that need better access to food and jobs. Plenty provides living-wage, year-round jobs along with flavorful, nutrient-rich food to the communities we serve. We use automation and robotics so machines do the backbreaking labor while people perform new kinds of skilled agricultural, science and high-tech jobs. Now is the time to help Plenty achieve its mission to feed the world healthy food in a sustainable way. We are a start-up with expanding career growth opportunities. We are actively seeking those who embody our core values: find a way, down to earth, & grow together. These values guide how we work together as teammates, approach innovation and engage with customers. Does this sound like you? Join the mission as we improve human and planetary health by increasing access to craveable fruits and vegetables.
Tell
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2016
2015
Investor
Jul 2015
Ladder combines the power of innovative technology with world-class financial and insurance expertise to make it easy for anyone to access life insurance.
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