David Brown

Senior Vice President/ Managing Director, International Business @ FireMon | Early Stage Investment | GTM Advisor | CRO

πŸ“ United StatesπŸ”„ Updated September 2026πŸ’Ό 4 investmentsπŸ“… 4 years investingπŸ—“ Last invested Sep 2024
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Investor/Advisor
Nov 2023
Clinically AI helps behavioral healthcare organizations turn documentation and compliance into a sustainable advantage. Built to work inside existing EHR workflows, our platform reduces administrative burden by up to 70%, improves documentation consistency, and supports audit readiness at scale, without forcing clinicians to work outside the systems they already use.
Investor and Advisor
Aug 2023
Checkfirst exists to solve one of the biggest challenges in the Testing, Inspection, Certification, and Compliance (TICC) sector: operational inefficiency driven by outdated planning, scheduling, and verification processes. Every day, global TIC organisations depend on auditors, inspectors, and assessors to deliver critical work. Yet much of this work is slowed down by manual planning, fragmented workflows, inconsistent data, and systems that cannot manage the complexity of real field operations. Checkfirst builds AI products that remove these barriers. Our platform is designed around one core mission: To bring clarity, accuracy, and speed to every stage of the audit and inspection lifecycle. ScheduleAI Our flagship product, ScheduleAI, gives TICC planners a modern optimisation engine for scheduling auditors and inspectors. Traditional planning tools cannot compute skills, certifications, customer windows, durations, SLAs, travel constraints, workload distribution, and compliance rules at scale. ScheduleAI processes all these dimensions instantly and produces optimal schedules that improve utilisation, reduce travel, cut rescheduling, and accelerate certificate turnaround. Leaders in TICC choose ScheduleAI because it does not automate the old process. It replaces it with an intelligent operating model that reveals hidden capacity and transforms delivery performance. VerifyAI VerifyAI supports document assessors with accurate level 1 review. It accelerates early stage verification by checking consistency, completeness, and compliance indicators across documentation sets. VerifyAI does not replace decision making. It gives assessors a faster, more reliable start and removes repetitive manual checks. Why Checkfirst Our products integrate seamlessly into existing TICC workflows. They connect with sector specific tools, support multi country operations, and handle the complexity of different standards and audit types.
Investor and Advisor
Aug 2022
HelloSky is the first AI powered platform designed to deliver the power of human capital intelligence. HelloSky combines behavioral analytics, sector mapping, and relationship intelligence to equip companies to successfully navigate talent shortages and optimize their workforce.
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2024
HotEdge LLC
Advisor and Investor
Sep 2024
Managing Director and Senior Vice President of International Business
Sep 2024
FireMon is the global leader in firewall policy management, empowering enterprises to control risk, streamline operations, and scale securely across hybrid, cloud, and on-premises environments. Trusted by over 1,700 organizations in 70+ countries, FireMon automates enterprise network security policy management for the world’s most complex firewall infrastructures. As a founder-led company, FireMon is redefining infrastructure protection through intelligent policy governance, enabling asset-centric control, Zero Trust readiness, and operational clarity at scale. Backed by industry-leading net promoter scores and relentless customer focus, FireMon ensures security becomes a strategic enabler, not an obstacle.
2023
Investor/Advisor
Nov 2023
Clinically AI helps behavioral healthcare organizations turn documentation and compliance into a sustainable advantage. Built to work inside existing EHR workflows, our platform reduces administrative burden by up to 70%, improves documentation consistency, and supports audit readiness at scale, without forcing clinicians to work outside the systems they already use.
Investor and Advisor
Aug 2023
Checkfirst exists to solve one of the biggest challenges in the Testing, Inspection, Certification, and Compliance (TICC) sector: operational inefficiency driven by outdated planning, scheduling, and verification processes. Every day, global TIC organisations depend on auditors, inspectors, and assessors to deliver critical work. Yet much of this work is slowed down by manual planning, fragmented workflows, inconsistent data, and systems that cannot manage the complexity of real field operations. Checkfirst builds AI products that remove these barriers. Our platform is designed around one core mission: To bring clarity, accuracy, and speed to every stage of the audit and inspection lifecycle. ScheduleAI Our flagship product, ScheduleAI, gives TICC planners a modern optimisation engine for scheduling auditors and inspectors. Traditional planning tools cannot compute skills, certifications, customer windows, durations, SLAs, travel constraints, workload distribution, and compliance rules at scale. ScheduleAI processes all these dimensions instantly and produces optimal schedules that improve utilisation, reduce travel, cut rescheduling, and accelerate certificate turnaround. Leaders in TICC choose ScheduleAI because it does not automate the old process. It replaces it with an intelligent operating model that reveals hidden capacity and transforms delivery performance. VerifyAI VerifyAI supports document assessors with accurate level 1 review. It accelerates early stage verification by checking consistency, completeness, and compliance indicators across documentation sets. VerifyAI does not replace decision making. It gives assessors a faster, more reliable start and removes repetitive manual checks. Why Checkfirst Our products integrate seamlessly into existing TICC workflows. They connect with sector specific tools, support multi country operations, and handle the complexity of different standards and audit types.
Managing General Partner
Mar 2023
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