Sean Brownlee
Venture Partner at Defined
Sean Brownlee
Venture Partner at Defined
Canada
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2024 - Current
Defined is architected as a thesis-driven and product-first venture capital firm investing as early as possible and taking a full-stack approach across the building blocks of the AI Frontier. We work with founders to re-architect how to solve problems in radically new ways.
Managing Partner
2023
Team True North spotlights the best of Canadian tech: high-performing tech firms tracking to $1 billion in annual revenue with growth rates that match the top one per cent of companies in the world. Why did we form Team True North? Because it is Canada’s time – this is the best place on the planet to work in tech, invest in tech and build amazing things. Through Team True North, Communitech will continue to support these companies with access to talent, customers and capital as well as celebrate their global successes.
General Partner
2012
Sean Brownlee is a partner of Rho Canada Ventures. With over 20 years of operational and venture experience, he is passionate about collaborating with entrepreneurs and helping them grow their ventures to become leaders in their spaces. He joined Rho Canada Ventures in 2012 and focuses on investments in the areas of SaaS (Software as a Service), cloud, mobility and clean technology. Prior to Rho, Sean worked for nearly a decade in Boston at JMH Capital and 3i Corporation, a leading internationally focused venture capital firm. He has been involved in the early-stage financing of many technology companies that have achieved successful exits through M&A and IPO. Sean was also previously as an investor with EDC in Ottawa. Sean’s experience and network builds on Rho’s focus on developing early-stage companies into international leaders. He is focused on working with entrepreneurs who are thinking about global domination from the earliest stages. Sean received an M.B.A. from the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and a B.A. in economics from Carleton University. In addition, he is a CFA charterholder.
Chairman
2020
Thentia Cloud provides the opportunity to regulate from wherever you need to, securely. Adaptive graph-based database technology harnesses complex data relationships and evolves them over time as the data changes, through a blend of machine learning and predictive analytics.
Board Of Directors
2018
Fluent.ai is disrupting the speech recognition and understanding market using visionary new deep learning and other machine techniques to enable acoustic-only speech recognition. By associating speech to intent without requiring a speech-to-text translation, Fluent.ai opens a wide variety of new applications and provides higher accuracy and more robust performance unattainable using incumbent methods.
Board Of Directors
2017
Real time sports analytics using a standard single camera. Sportlogiq provides advanced analystics and does not require chips or any additional hardware.
Partner - ICE Fund (Industrial Cleantech Energy Fund)
2017 - 2023
BDC Capital’s Industrial, Clean and Energy (ICE) Technology Venture Fund tailors its investments towards capital-efficient and scalable businesses enhancing resource productivity with the potential to operate across a global market. We invest in early and development stage Canadian companies, and use our experience in materials, electronics and ICT to build commercially successful global companies.
Board Member
2020 - 2023
ThinkData is creating the fastest, most efficient solutions to the problems of data variety. Namara allows our clients to access and collaborate on standardized data, blend and enrich their own data, and integrate the finished product into any business solution. We are the bridge between people who have data and those who can use it to power decision science - a standard gateway for organizations to power their decision science with clean, accessible data.
Board Member
2019 - 2023
Four years in the making, Relogix sensors are now in their fifth generation, supported by IoT solutions. Our customers include the most recognizable brands in the world today. We’ve grown to over 30 corporate and public sector customers and deployed over 100,000 sensors covering over 20 million square feet of office space globally. Relogix is still growing. We’re always looking for the next innovation in CRE technology, leveraging a decade of CRE and analytics expertise to help you understand and plan your workspace.
Board Of Directors - Acquired by Great Hills Partners
2013 - 2021
Auvik wants to make networking easier. Through the use of some really cool technology, Auvik's cloud managed network automation platform dramatically simplifies the way IT configures, monitors, and manages its network. Best of all, it works with the network you already have!