# David Brown

> David Brown is a pre-seed investor at Impellent Ventures backing Legal Tech and Market Research. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Impellent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/impellent-ventures)
- Location: Rochester, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtaylorbrown/

David Brown is a pre-seed investor at Impellent Ventures in Rochester focused on Legal Tech and Market Research. David Brown is the Founding Managing Partner of Impellent Ventures. He attended Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal Tech | 3 | 50% |
| Market Research | 3 | 50% |
| Business Intelligence | 3 | 50% |
| Intellectual Property | 3 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 50% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kidsy | Kidsy is an e-commerce platform that offers new and open-box discounted baby and kid clothing and other products. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 28, 2024 |  |
| Patented.ai | Building the world's first infringement detector. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Infringements | Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Invalidate | IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Employee Cycle | Employee Cycle is an automated, centralized, and real-time standalone HR Metrics Dashboard. We transform your HR data silos and turn them into HR data stories. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Compt | Compt helps companies build, streamline, and scale perk stipends that delight teams and give companies a more productive and engaged workforce. Everyone has different needs, and we think that when perks take this into account the value to the employee goes beyond just beer or catered lunches and becomes so much more. | $1.5M | Seed | May 07, 2020 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cooley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooley-llp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Operator Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/operator-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Impellent Ventures

VC Fund · Rochester, United States

Impellent Ventures is a generalist fund providing pre-seed and seed funding.

3 contacts available at Impellent Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Brown | Founding Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-brown-0225 |
| Philip H. Beauregard | Managing General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-h-beauregard |
| Tariq Trotter | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tariq-trotter |

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## FAQ

### What does David Brown invest in?

David Brown invests primarily in Legal Tech, Market Research and Business Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Brown last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Brown closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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