Aragon Ventures

Early Stage Investments

David Brewer is the Managing Partner of Aragon Ventures, a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm specializing in early stage, high technology companies. He serves on the boards of directors of HereUare, Inc., Notify Technology Corp., Cuica Technologies, Inc., FirstStone Incubators LLC, and PriaVision, Inc.  He also serves as an officer, director or advisor to two other investment companies. 

 

Mr. Brewer is also the Chairman of End Poverty Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of poverty through empowerment of entrepreneurs in developing countries, and a board member of the SEEP Network.  Before forming Aragon Ventures in 1998, Mr. Brewer was a co-founder and the initial President of Inktomi Corporation, an Internet infrastructure software company (which was subsequently acquired by Yahoo, Inc.). 

 

In his over thirty years in high technology start-ups, he has also served as president or chief financial officer in a number of early stage companies, including Explore Technologies (electronic educational toys), eFax.com, formerly JetFax, (advanced fax technology products), Monogram Software (consumer financial software), Telebit (high speed modems and other data communications equipment) and Packet Technologies (two-way interactive cable television communication systems).

 

Currently most of Mr. Brewer’s time is spent as the President of PriaVision, Inc., which is a restart of a medical device company in which Aragon Ventures invested.  PriaVision develops and markets instruments for ophthalmic laser surgery.

 

Mr. Brewer’s special interest is in self-sustaining techniques that alleviate poverty in developing countries, such as lending programs for the working poor.  When such microlending programs are efficiently run and scalable to serve a large number of people, he believes a market-based solution is sustainable over the long term.   Other kinds of financial assistance to entrepreneurs are also interesting to him, especially when they leverage capital and other resources to empower the poor and maintain their dignity.

 

Mr. Brewer holds a business degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree from the University of San Francisco.

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