# Jim Brown

> Jim Brown is a private equity investor at Long Ridge Equity Partners backing Financial Services. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Long Ridge Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/long-ridge-equity-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-brown-98233/

Jim Brown is a private equity investor at Long Ridge Equity Partners in New York focused on Financial Services and Finance. Jim Brown is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Long Ridge Equity Partners an also serves as the Board of Directors of OnCorps. Jim previously worked at Lehman Brothers as a Vice President. Jim Brown attended the NYU Stern School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 44% |
| Finance | 5 | 28% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 22% |
| Software | 3 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 9 | 50% |
| Seed | 3 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 89% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Huper | Huper is a platform that focuses on AI tools for leadership and management at large. It offers an AI-powered command center that assists executives in balancing large-scale operations with individualized human features in the workplace. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2026 |  |
| OnCorps | OnCorps helps people make better decisions by giving them personalized decision-making tools powered by machine learning and behavioral science algorithms. It develops customized software solutions to streamline financial processes. The platform leverages prominent research in behavioral science to engage users and provide more comprehensive datathat will produce better, more actionable decisions. OnCorps serves as a global financial, consulting, and technology firm seeking an edge in decision analytics. | $55M | Private Equity | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Advisor | Advisor is a provider of financial advising services. They advise in the following areas budgeting and saving, reducing bad debt, optimizing good debt, like a mortgage, tax strategy and preparation, managing investments, building wealth, including equity compensation, wills, estate planning, and insurance, and aligning investments with risktolerance. | $9M | Seed | Sep 03, 2025 |  |
| Sunset Point Software, Inc. | At Sunset Point Software, we believe legacy systems slated for decommissioning, should have their essence preserved to continue to serve, inform and even inspire future generations within the organization. These systems were often the lifeblood of an organization for years, if not decades. They were the single source of truth for the organization,chronicling both its successes and its failures. For these reasons, we believe organizations are well served to preserve the stories these systems hold dear even if the physical system is being decommissioned. |  | Seed | Feb 24, 2025 |  |
| QX Global Group | QX Global Group is a business process outsourcing firm that renders finance, recruitment, IT software and corporate advisory services. | $128.5M | Private Equity | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| Proof Technology | Process Server Technology is a powerful web-based platform and mobile app that instantly connects law firms with independent process servers. | $30.4M | Series B | Jan 26, 2024 |  |
| Hatz AI | Hatz AI helps MSPs build an AI-as-a-service business with AI applications and agents. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 04, 2024 |  |
| RFG Advisory | RFG Advisory is an RIA firm that furnishes an integrated platform to support and enable advisors to sustain themselves in the business. |  | Private Equity | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| AuthenticID | AuthenticID provides 100% automated identity proofing and fraud detection solutions that are leveraged by companies and industries around the world including top telecom/wireless, banking, fintech, background screening, identity, gig, retail, e-commerce, government, healthcare, and more.Using thousands of proprietary computer vision andmachine learning algorithms, these solutions help companies accurately verify the identity of their users across retail, digital, and call center environments for onboarding and ongoing re-authentication events; KYC, IAM, and more. The solutions are easy to integrate and provide customers a large ROI by stopping fraud losses, increasing customer conversion at onboarding, reducing operational costs, and allowing quick and cost-effective operational scalability, all while ensuring global privacy regulations compliance. | $100M | Private Equity | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| National Credit Care | National Credit Care is a credit solutions provider. They provide credit report analysis, credit report consultation, direct creditor contact, error correction and removal, identity theft cleanup, and fraud clean up assistance. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 29, 2020 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blue Heron Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-heron-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fenway Summer Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenway-summer-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Highland Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highland-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Iroquois Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iroquois-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kyocera Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyocera-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Link Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/link-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Long Ridge Equity Partners

VC Fund · New York, United States

Founded in 2007, Long Ridge Equity Partners is a private investment firm focused on the financial and business technology sectors. Leveraging deep sector knowledge and an extensive network of industry resources, Long Ridge serves as a value-added partner to high-growth businesses. Since its founding, Long Ridge's principals have sponsored someof the most successful growth companies in the financial and business technology sectors, providing leading management teams with partnership, strategic resources, and capital to drive profitable expansion. Long Ridge manages over $1 billion of committed capital.

5 contacts available at Long Ridge Equity Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Donna Little | Partner and Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donna-little |
| Douglas Nelson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-nelson |
| Jason Melton | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-melton-2 |
| Jim Brown | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-brown-6 |
| Kevin Bhatt | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-bhatt |

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## FAQ

### What does Jim Brown invest in?

Jim Brown invests primarily in Financial Services, Finance and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Private Equity and Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 Jim Brown last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jim Brown closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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