Kelvin Johnson

Co-Founder and CEO, Brevity · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kelvin Johnson Jr. is the co-founder and CEO of Brevity, an AI-driven role-playing and pitch platform for sales professionals and founders. A Villanova alumnus and former CPA at Ernst & Young, he also authored The Sales Trap Prevention Playbook.

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Johnson: Brevity users raised millions and won over 30 pitch competitions
“And as a result of going through our software, organizations have raised millions in capital, closed notable deals with Fortune 50 companies like a Target, and we've had over 31st place pitch competition winners.”
Kelvin Johnson Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:17 #114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach
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Johnson: Brevity is raising $500K at an $8M valuation cap
“Now we are here today extending our pre-seed funding round, raising 500 at an eight mil cap via a safe note.”
Kelvin Johnson Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:29 #114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach
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Kelvin Johnson: Brevity has raised $1.3M from four institutional investors
“Year to date, since we started this company, we raised 1.3. So we have four institutional investors, Right Side Capital, Serif Group, Brown Venture Group is most recent, and then Bronze Valley out of Alabama.”
Kelvin Johnson Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 17:21 #114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach
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Brevity secures $500,000 investment from Lightship Capital
“We ended up getting a, you know, a 500,000 dollar investment from Lightship Capital.”
Kelvin Johnson Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 23:28 #114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach
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Brevity launches AI sales training tool Brevity Roleplay
“So the big changes besides just getting fundraising is we've now launched the product called Brevity Roleplay. Basically, we help train sales teams by role playing in real time with AI based prospects.”
Kelvin Johnson Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 23:56 #114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach
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Brevity features 14 voice personas because "sometimes you run into assholes"
“We have 14 different voice personas in the software because in sales and in the investment journey, sometimes you run into assholes.”
Kelvin Johnson Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 26:13 #114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach Mar 4, 2025 7m
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