David Crow
Advisor at CoGuard
David Crow
Advisor at CoGuard
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cofounder
2010 - 2012
Advocacy and engagement software for customers.
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%.
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.