# Kevin Brown

> Kevin Brown is a Series A investor at REV (London) backing Analytics and Machine Learning. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [REV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reed-elsevier)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/kevinbrownrev

Kevin Brown is a Series A investor at REV in London focused on Analytics and Machine Learning. Kevin has been involved in early stage technology & venture capital since the late nineties, first as an entrepreneur & then as an investor. He was a founding partner of REV in 2000.Prior to REV Kevin was at SOFTBANK/ News Corporation’s European joint venture fund, eVentures. Prior to that he founded a venture backed derivativespricing software company after starting his career in strategy consulting with Arthur Andersen.Kevin holds a Master of Arts degree in Social and Political Sciences from King’s College, Cambridge.Kevin serves as a director on the boards of Recorded Future, Talix, Intelligize & Sentrian and a board observer at Y Charts. He was previously a director at Healthline (acquired by Summit Partners), Inxight (acquired by Business Objects), Inpharmatica (acquired by Galapagos), Struq (acquired by Comcast), Martini Media (acquired by Evolve Media), GigaOM & board observer at Intraspect (acquired by Vignette). He also manages the firm’s investments in Palantir & Signal Media and works with Seedcamp.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 8 | 32% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 20% |
| SaaS | 4 | 16% |
| Big Data | 4 | 16% |
| Software | 4 | 16% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 16% |
| Series B | 3 | 12% |
| Series C | 3 | 12% |
| Series D | 3 | 12% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 60% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gigasheet | Gigasheet delivers healthcare market intelligence powered by AI and the industry’s most comprehensive price transparency data. The platform ingests and analyzes billions of payer and provider rate records from Transparency in Coverage datasets, structuring them into usable, queryable intelligence. Its AI models benchmark rates, identify outliers,and surface savings or growth opportunities automatically. Users can combine their own claims or network data within a scalable, spreadsheet-like interface to generate consultant-level insights without engineering effort. Gigasheet’s technology turns complex healthcare pricing data into fast, explainable intelligence that drives smarter contracting and network decisions. | $7M | Series A | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Effectiv | Effectiv is a next-gen fraud management platform with out-of-box solutions designed specifically for financial institutions. Effectiv’s focus is to significantly reduce the time it takes to deploy and adapt fraud detection strategies without adding any friction to good users.The Effectiv platform comes with an easy to use, no-code, orchestration& rule engine with pre-built integrations to all industry standard data & intelligence providers; an AI-assisted case management system built to increase investigator efficiency; and a powerful reporting and analytics dashboard.About us: Our founding team has over 30 years of combined experience in building risk mitigation systems at companies like Google, PayPal and Walmart. We were also part of the early team at Simility (acquired by PayPal), where we developed fraud detection solutions for large banks like US Bank, Synchrony, Discover, Zions, Itau and Santander. | $4.1M | Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Effectiv | Effectiv is a next-gen fraud management platform with out-of-box solutions designed specifically for financial institutions. Effectiv’s focus is to significantly reduce the time it takes to deploy and adapt fraud detection strategies without adding any friction to good users.The Effectiv platform comes with an easy to use, no-code, orchestration& rule engine with pre-built integrations to all industry standard data & intelligence providers; an AI-assisted case management system built to increase investigator efficiency; and a powerful reporting and analytics dashboard.About us: Our founding team has over 30 years of combined experience in building risk mitigation systems at companies like Google, PayPal and Walmart. We were also part of the early team at Simility (acquired by PayPal), where we developed fraud detection solutions for large banks like US Bank, Synchrony, Discover, Zions, Itau and Santander. | $4.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Cybersixgill | Cybersixgill is the leader in cyber threat intelligence enablement and enrichment. Their fully automated threat intelligence solutions help organizations fight cyber crime, detect phishing, data leaks, fraud and vulnerabilities as well as amplify incident response – in real-time. The Cybersixgill Investigative Portal empowers security teams withcontextual and actionable insights as well as the ability to conduct real-time investigations. Rich data feeds such as Darkfeed™ and DVE Score™ harness Cybersixgill’s unmatched intelligence collection capabilities and deliver real-time intel into organizations' existing security systems. Most recently, Cybersixgill introduced agility to threat intel with their CI/CP methodology (Continuous Investigation/Continuous Protection). Current customers include enterprises, financial services, MSSPs, governments and law enforcement entities. | $35M | Series B | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Mode Analytics | Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions. It hosts a central repository of work and surfaces it to analysts in real-time, allowing them to address problems without needing to first recreate work.Mode was founded in 2013 by Derek Steer, Benn Stancil, and Josh Ferguson in SanFrancisco, California. | $33M | Series D | Aug 06, 2020 |  |
| Cybersixgill | Cybersixgill is the leader in cyber threat intelligence enablement and enrichment. Their fully automated threat intelligence solutions help organizations fight cyber crime, detect phishing, data leaks, fraud and vulnerabilities as well as amplify incident response – in real-time. The Cybersixgill Investigative Portal empowers security teams withcontextual and actionable insights as well as the ability to conduct real-time investigations. Rich data feeds such as Darkfeed™ and DVE Score™ harness Cybersixgill’s unmatched intelligence collection capabilities and deliver real-time intel into organizations' existing security systems. Most recently, Cybersixgill introduced agility to threat intel with their CI/CP methodology (Continuous Investigation/Continuous Protection). Current customers include enterprises, financial services, MSSPs, governments and law enforcement entities. | $15M | Series B | Feb 11, 2020 |  |
| Mode Analytics | Mode Analytics is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform used to make data-informed decisions. It hosts a central repository of work and surfaces it to analysts in real-time, allowing them to address problems without needing to first recreate work.Mode was founded in 2013 by Derek Steer, Benn Stancil, and Josh Ferguson in SanFrancisco, California. | $23M | Series C | Feb 12, 2019 |  |
| Quid | Quid is a platform that searches, analyzes and visualizes the world’s collective intelligence to help answer strategic questions. It draws connections between big ideas, giving your brain more power than you ever dreamed possible.Quid software technology specializes in the analysis of text-based data. The product utilizes implicit networkanalysis and graph theory to create advanced interactive visualizations. Quid proprietary algorithms employ artificial intelligence and Natural Language Processing to quickly find insights across millions of data points.The company’s goal is to allow non-technical users in enterprise organizations to independently access the world’s high-value information for unique and shareable insights. Quid users have access to proprietary data sets (e.g. news articles, blog posts, company profiles, and patents) and can also bring their own data.On January 28, 2020, Quid merged with the social media analytics company, Netbase Solutions. The combined company joined forces under a collective name, Netbase Quid. | $37.5M | Series E | Oct 29, 2018 |  |
| Talix | Talix provides risk adjustment, quality and oncology solutions to help providers, payers and life science organizations succeed in value-based healthcare. Our leading-edge SaaS applications leverage purpose built NLP, machine learning and advanced patient data analytics to transform complex data into actionable intelligence that drives improvedefficiency and accuracy—leading to better patient outcomes, more accurate reimbursements and reduced costs. | $14M |  | Jan 11, 2016 |  |
| Recorded Future | Recorded Future is a threat intelligence company, offering an Intelligence Cloud that delivers comprehensive insights into adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. By indexing data from the open web, dark web, and technical sources, it enables organizations to gain real-time visibility into potential threats and vulnerabilities. This empowersclients to act swiftly and confidently, enhancing their cybersecurity posture and reducing risks. | $12M | Series D | Apr 16, 2015 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bright Pixel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sonae-im) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Granite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/granite-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Venrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alloy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alloy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About REV

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

REV is a global venture capital partnership. They are backed by one of the world's largest content, technology and analytics companies, RELX Group. Their mission is to help build companies that can transform their markets through the application of data, technology and analytics. Since 2000 they have invested over $200m in Big Data, DigitalHealth, Internet and Enterprise Technology companies. They have been early investors in disruptive category leaders like Palantir, Healthline, Babbel and Netli. Their portfolio of companies is part of a large, extended family of businesses that also includes the entire Reed Elsevier Group. Collaboration is actively encouraged and supported. Their focus is high growth, internet, media & technology businesses based in the US, Europe or Israel. Their typical sectors include: new media, mobile, big data & analytics, healthcare information & software and groundbreaking analytic technologies. They will invest at any stage of a company's development, from early/seed stage to growth capital and whatever their initial capital investment, they remain committed to helping the company achieve market leadership. They are a global investor active in all the major western venture capital hubs - San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin and Tel Aviv. Their largest portfolio cluster is in California.

2 contacts available at REV.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Brown | Founder Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-brown-5 |
| Tony Askew | Founder Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-askew |

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## FAQ

### What does Kevin Brown invest in?

Kevin Brown invests primarily in Analytics, Machine Learning and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 25 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 Kevin Brown last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kevin Brown closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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