DC

David Crow

Pit crew - Startup mechanic - failed entrepreneur

Toronto, Ontario

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2015

  • Founder, Director

    2015

    Global consulting practice helping clients identify, articulate and deliver the north star for emerging products and business. Specialize in operationalizing and connecting product metrics to financing strategy, due diligence, financial modelling and communicate meaningful plans for unwritten futures and emerging domains.

2022

  • Advisor

    2024

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2022 - 2024

    Focused on product and go-to-market. CoGuard is a static analysis tool for software configurations. Automatically find, scan and fix vulnerabilities and mis-configurations for IaC, containers, applications and cloud infrastructure. Get started for free today coguard.io

  • Advisor

    2022 - 2022

  • Cofounder

    2007

    Started in 2007, a 10,000 person strong community of Canadian founders, funders and everyone that supports the creation, financing of emerging technology companies. Past events hosted include over 40 DemoCamp events, 10 Founders & Funders and 2 StartupEmpires. Number of connections, infinite.

2021 - 2023

  • Partner

    2021 - 2023

    EigenSpace program is about helping entrepreneurs to get organized. MVP products launched and funded fast. We are committed to tripling start-up success. Start-ups will always be a risky undertaking, but we want to help build more successful Canadian start-ups. Succeed fast, don’t fail fast. Don’t fail at all. Achieve liftoff and escape velocity.

2013 - 2019

  • Partner

    2013 - 2019

    THENEXTPHASE offers coaching and workshops to help founders build better plans for growth. Focus on people and activities. This means customers and hiring and execution. We work to connect day-to-day activities to fundraising. We help you understand how investors make money, and how they look at potential investments, and what this means for you. Over 250 companies have participated with the support of CDL Atlantic, ACOA, Innovacorp, PropelICT, and others. Participants include early and later-stage companies including Harbr, Jaza Energy, Mysa Energy, Repable, Swept, WoodsCamp, HeyOrca, Alongside, Charged Engineering Inc. and over 170 other companies.

2012 - 2015

  • Director

    2012 - 2015

    Platform role. Responsibilities include BD, Corp Dev, Community and Events. Portfolio support on seed and series A companies with execution planning and business development.

2010 - 2012

  • Cofounder

    2010 - 2012

    Advocacy and engagement software for customers.

2011 - 2012

  • CMO & Head of Product (contract)

    2011 - 2012

    Focused on product development, customer development, and building inbound marketing and funnel analytics for a SaaS CMMS/EAM company. Increased MRR by 994%. Increased Qualified Leads by 590%. Increased number of customers by 545%.

2007 - 2010

  • Platform Strategy Advisor/Startup Evangelist

    2007 - 2010

    DPE - Focused marketing program creation and deliver for Canadian startups. This included a series of breadth and depth engagement activities including conferences, local events and meetups, and connections with internal Microsoft technology resources and external funding sources and services (tax, development, etc.).

  • Design Lead

    1998 - 2001

    Venture incubation company with clients that include Agillion, eLaw, Zaplet, Furniture.com.