Sean K. Brown

Managing Director and GC of Juvo Ventures | FINRA |Thurgood Marshall Fellow | WGU Senior Associate GC | National Council of Higher Education Resources | Utah State Bar Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2024 (UMBA)

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Board Observer
Jun 2026
BoodleBox is a collaborative GenAI platform for higher education that enables professors and students to work together responsibly with top AI tools like GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity and offers features like efficient class preparation, custom AI bots, and academic assessment. BoodleBox has gained significant traction at hundreds of colleges and universities. The platform is FERPA compliant, SOC 2 certified, and offers data privacy. By using 80% less tokens per chat, BoodleBox can offer affordable pricing, making it an accessible solution for institutions looking to integrate AI responsibly into their educational environment for lifelong learning about AI and work with AI.
Major Investor
Apr 2026
We are committed to ensuring that freshmen and sophomores in community college are given an equitable opportunity to become juniors and seniors at universities and colleges across the United States.
Board Member
Feb 2026
Evress builds data connectors directly to school districts offline and online programs to generate monthly implementation reports, making it easy to make timely decisions with fresh data instead of asking your team to undertake yet another dashboard project.
Co-Founder and Investor
Dec 2025
Magpie Wishlist is a patented wedding registry and marketplace that lets guests fund the real services couples care about—photographers, florists, venues, DJs, hair and makeup, caterers, and more—instead of traditional kitchen appliances. Couples build a free wedding website, add their already-booked vendors to a Wishlist, and guests gift real money toward confirmed services, with their names attached to each gift forever. Magpie makes elegant weddings possible at every budget by turning love and generosity into fully funded, real wedding experiences.
early stageEvents Services
Board Observer
Apr 2025
TalentGuard’s AI platform transforms talent insights into personalized upskilling and mobility solutions, driving growth for both employees and organizations. By dynamically aligning employee skills and aspirations with the evolving needs of the company, TalentGuard ensures a symbiotic growth trajectory, empowering both the workforce and the enterprise to reach new heights of success and innovation. This unique blend of technology and personalization positions TalentGuard at the forefront of nurturing and developing top-tier talent, essential for shaping the future of businesses in an ever-changing corporate world. OUR VISION: A world that works at its highest potential. Imagine if every employee and company had exactly what they needed to achieve their greatest hopes, goals, and dreams. The outcome would be extraordinary: Total fulfillment in the workplace and grand ambitions lived out every day. That’s the kind of world we want to live in—and the one we seek to create. We help companies truly see their people—their skills, credentials, performance scores, preferences, career aspirations and more—in order to realize the full potential of their workforce. Armed with this valuable data and the predictive power of AI, companies can pinpoint the best path forward not just for each employee but for the entire organization.
Board Member
Jul 2022
VictoryXR is one of the world leaders in virtual reality educational product development. To date, we have created over 240 unique VR experiences spanning over 50 different learning units. With educational partners like Carolina Biological and Oxford University, we have been able to develop brand-new educational encounters for VR users across the globe. VictoryXR develops Virtual Reality content for the following systems: - HTC Vive - HTC Vive Focus - Windows Mixed Reality - Oculus Rift - Oculus Go - Oculus Quest - Pico - Lenovo Mirage (running Google Daydream) - Google Cardboard …as well as Augmented Reality (AR) content for both iPhones and Android phones
Investor
Dec 2021
FutureFit AI partners with Fortune 500 companies, governments, and workforce development organizations to provide an AI-powered tool that acts as a GPS to help workers navigate career transitions, supporting them from career navigation, to reskilling, to job placement. FutureFit AI uses over 350 Million global talent profiles, live labor market data and projections, and proprietary algorithms to identify an individuals skills, recommend possible career paths, and create a personalized roadmap of learning programs, career support resources, and coaching to drive successful job outcomes. FutureFit AIs work in using AI to support reskilling efforts and reimagine layoffs through outskilling has been recognized and covered by the Wall Street Journal, World Economic Forum, US Government, UK Government, and Nesta.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
We take the headache out of scaling peer-learning so you can focus on creating human connection and measurable results. We all know that people work best with others. Like having a study group in school, but at work you might call it a pod, circle, huddle, cohort, peer-learning, mastermind, or any other name that comes to mind to describe small group learning. At ion, we developed a system to scale small group learning so global teams can develop their people. ​ We guide fast-growing companies to incorporate diverse peer learning groups into every training program using ion’s 3-step science-based ASK, MATCH, LAUNCH method. 1. Ask the right questions Survey your teams using ion’s proprietary algorithm 2. Make great matches with 1-click Learners are automatically placed into small groups optimized for diversity 3. Launch your blended learning course Track groups as they alternate between learning and peer group discussions Bring your own courses and access a growing library of ions award-winning course material. Book a demo today.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
CognaLearn spun out form Duke-National University Medical School in 2015. Our software, InteDashboard, is the world's most widely used software platform for physical and online team-based learning classrooms. 100+ institutions are using InteDashboard, including Columbia University, Yale-NUS and the Singapore Government, with 95% satisfaction rate. Educators and trainers save time by automating team quizzes, cases and 360º peer evaluations and improve outcomes with real-time student data.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
Founded in 2014, APDS is the only Certified B Corporation in Corrections Reform in the USA. Our vision is to break the cycle of incarceration. Our mission is to prepare every justice-involved individual for a living wage career upon their reentry to society. Our charge: Day one access to evidence-based education technology in every jurisdiction and state in the USA to create pathways to living-wage careers.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
SchooLinks is a college and career readiness platform with curriculum that engages students throughout the process of self discovery, career education and college planning and application. The student-centric experience is able to create a wealth of behavioral data, and its machine learning algorithms leverage those data to personalize college recommendations and content to further drive student engagement. SchooLinks then serves actionable insights to counselors that help them act in real time to become more effective. On a district level, the sophisticated data models power a full suite of accountability tools to allow administrators to monitor and achieve desired college and career readiness outcomes.
Investor
Oct 2021
Talenya, a Paycor company, uses AI to automate talent sourcing, saving recruiters 50% of the process time and cost, and delivering interviews with qualified and diverse talent - effortlessly. Increase the representation of quality diverse candidates in your talent pools – with the #1 AI-powered diverse talent sourcing solution!
Board Observer
Oct 2021
Riipen is enabling transformative opportunities for companies to collaborate with post-secondary students on real-time, real-world challenges that are embedded directly into coursework. To date, Riipen has enabled over 272,000 learner experiences and over 18.4M+ hours of applied learning at 700+ post-secondary academic partnerships & portals with more than 44,000 employers. Riipen’s mission is to be the experiential learning platform on which learners of all backgrounds and employers of all sizes engage actively, frequently and authentically – through real projects.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
InScribe helps institutions build learning communities around their existing educators and students. These communities cut across traditional classroom boundaries - so individuals that used to work alone can now work as a team, answering each other’s questions and sharing knowledge. InScribe can help increase student engagement and success, while also teaching students critical 21st century skills including communication, collaboration, and information literacy.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
BrightHive helps organizations, networks, & communities securely and responsibly link their data to enhance their impact, empower individual and collective decision making, & increase equality of opportunity. Together with our strategic partners, we build and support open source interoperable data infrastructure and provide strong data governance tools necessary for social change organizations to collect, integrate, and share data more effectively and securely to inform interventions and collaborations that directly impact the lives of the individuals that they serve.
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2026
Board Observer
Jun 2026
BoodleBox is a collaborative GenAI platform for higher education that enables professors and students to work together responsibly with top AI tools like GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity and offers features like efficient class preparation, custom AI bots, and academic assessment. BoodleBox has gained significant traction at hundreds of colleges and universities. The platform is FERPA compliant, SOC 2 certified, and offers data privacy. By using 80% less tokens per chat, BoodleBox can offer affordable pricing, making it an accessible solution for institutions looking to integrate AI responsibly into their educational environment for lifelong learning about AI and work with AI.
Major Investor
Apr 2026
We are committed to ensuring that freshmen and sophomores in community college are given an equitable opportunity to become juniors and seniors at universities and colleges across the United States.
Board Member
Feb 2026
Evress builds data connectors directly to school districts offline and online programs to generate monthly implementation reports, making it easy to make timely decisions with fresh data instead of asking your team to undertake yet another dashboard project.
2025
Co-Founder and Investor
Dec 2025
Magpie Wishlist is a patented wedding registry and marketplace that lets guests fund the real services couples care about—photographers, florists, venues, DJs, hair and makeup, caterers, and more—instead of traditional kitchen appliances. Couples build a free wedding website, add their already-booked vendors to a Wishlist, and guests gift real money toward confirmed services, with their names attached to each gift forever. Magpie makes elegant weddings possible at every budget by turning love and generosity into fully funded, real wedding experiences.
early stageEvents Services
Board Observer
Apr 2025
TalentGuard’s AI platform transforms talent insights into personalized upskilling and mobility solutions, driving growth for both employees and organizations. By dynamically aligning employee skills and aspirations with the evolving needs of the company, TalentGuard ensures a symbiotic growth trajectory, empowering both the workforce and the enterprise to reach new heights of success and innovation. This unique blend of technology and personalization positions TalentGuard at the forefront of nurturing and developing top-tier talent, essential for shaping the future of businesses in an ever-changing corporate world. OUR VISION: A world that works at its highest potential. Imagine if every employee and company had exactly what they needed to achieve their greatest hopes, goals, and dreams. The outcome would be extraordinary: Total fulfillment in the workplace and grand ambitions lived out every day. That’s the kind of world we want to live in—and the one we seek to create. We help companies truly see their people—their skills, credentials, performance scores, preferences, career aspirations and more—in order to realize the full potential of their workforce. Armed with this valuable data and the predictive power of AI, companies can pinpoint the best path forward not just for each employee but for the entire organization.
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