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Michael A. Brown

Director, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), U.S. Department of Defense

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2022
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Dec 2022
Strider is the leading strategic intelligence company empowering organizations to secure and advance their technology and innovation. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology alongside proprietary methodologies, Strider transforms open-source data into critical insights. This increased intelligence enables organizations to proactively address and respond to risks associated with state-sponsored intellectual property theft, targeted talent acquisition, and supply chain vulnerabilities. Please note: Striders only official email address domain is “@striderintel.com” and we are only recruiting for the positions listed on our careers site (striderintel.com/company/careers/). If you have been contacted by any other email domain, completed a written interview, offered a position that’s not on our website, or received any other suspicious communication, please do not engage and review the resources available to you from the FTC at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams.
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2022
Revic AI turns historical revenue data into a dynamic strategic asset, enabling sales and marketing teams to focus on truly winnable accounts.
Board Member and Investor
Aug 2017
Asimily is the only complete IoT, OT, and IoMT risk mitigation platform. Our mission is to mitigate risk with the depth and breadth of capability you need to keep all your devices secure. Our clients remediate threats to their network 10x faster with fewer resources to the top 2% of real-world vulnerabilities. Asimily provides an all-in-one platform including: • Risk Mitigation • Inventory and Visibility • Vulnerability Prioritization • Threat Detection and Response • Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Experience · 8 entries
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2022
Board Member
Dec 2022
Founded in 2006, ITIF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute—a think tank—focusing on a host of critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized as the world’s leading science and technology think tank, its mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress.
Board Member
Dec 2022
Strider is the leading strategic intelligence company empowering organizations to secure and advance their technology and innovation. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology alongside proprietary methodologies, Strider transforms open-source data into critical insights. This increased intelligence enables organizations to proactively address and respond to risks associated with state-sponsored intellectual property theft, targeted talent acquisition, and supply chain vulnerabilities. Please note: Striders only official email address domain is “@striderintel.com” and we are only recruiting for the positions listed on our careers site (striderintel.com/company/careers/). If you have been contacted by any other email domain, completed a written interview, offered a position that’s not on our website, or received any other suspicious communication, please do not engage and review the resources available to you from the FTC at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams.
Venture Partner
Oct 2022
Shield Capital is a team of veteran investors, founders and national security leaders who are helping founders build frontier solutions in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, space & autonomy for commercial and government enterprises.
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2022
Revic AI turns historical revenue data into a dynamic strategic asset, enabling sales and marketing teams to focus on truly winnable accounts.
2017
Board Member and Investor
Aug 2017
Asimily is the only complete IoT, OT, and IoMT risk mitigation platform. Our mission is to mitigate risk with the depth and breadth of capability you need to keep all your devices secure. Our clients remediate threats to their network 10x faster with fewer resources to the top 2% of real-world vulnerabilities. Asimily provides an all-in-one platform including: • Risk Mitigation • Inventory and Visibility • Vulnerability Prioritization • Threat Detection and Response • Governance, Risk, and Compliance
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2003–2022 · 7 investments
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