# Don Brown

> Don Brown is a seed investor at Rockies Venture Club (Denver) backing SaaS and Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rockies Venture Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rockies-venture-club)
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-brown-15666a5
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dpbrownjr

Don Brown is a Private Investor and Start-up Champion of Rockies Venture Club. Don received a B.A. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Management | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zylo | As the leader in SaaS Management, Zylo empowers companies to discover, optimize and govern their SaaS applications while elevating the employee experience. Organizations large and small trust Zylo’s enterprise-proven technology and unparalleled SaaS Management expertise to optimize more than 30 million SaaS licenses and $7 billion in SaaS spend.Zylo’s patent-pending, AI-powered Discovery Engine provides continual, frictionless monitoring of SaaS spend, licenses, and usage to create the industry’s most trusted SaaS system of record. Fueled by more data than any other provider, Zylo delivers actionable insights that allow you to take action quickly to optimize growing SaaS portfolios. For more information, visit zylo.com. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 13, 2016 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Rockies Venture Club

VC Fund · Denver, United States

Rockies Venture Club (RVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to economic development by funding entrepreneurial companies. RVC hosts the Angel Capital Summit and Colorado Capital Conferences as well as over sixty events each year. Rockies Venture Club is also an active Angel group, with over 30 investments in the last 2 years. AlongsideRockies Venture Club, is Rockies Venture Fund I, an Angel sidecar fund.

5 contacts available at Rockies Venture Club.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christine Kopec | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-kopec |
| Dave Harris | Director of Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-harris |
| Don Brown | Private Investor and Start-up Champion | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-brown-4 |
| Gali Baler | Assistant Director Venture Capital Analytics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gali-baler |
| Jim Hooton | Private Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-hooton |

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## FAQ

### What does Don Brown invest in?

Don Brown invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Cloud Management startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Don Brown last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Don Brown closed in Oct 2016. Shizune tracks 1 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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