# Campbell Brown

> Campbell Brown is the New Zealand-born co-founder and CEO of PredictHQ, a San Francisco-based real-world context platform that helps businesses account for events, weather, holidays and other external forces when forecasting demand. His route to enterprise AI began with geography, ad technology and marketing, sharpened at the fast-growing daily-deals company GrabOne and at travel company Online Republic, where unexplained swings in car-rental demand became the seed of PredictHQ. Brown helped turn that observation into an API-first business used in operational workflows at companies including Uber, Expedia, Walgreens and Domino's.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at PredictHQ
- **Organizations:** PredictHQ, Online Republic, GrabOne, Yellow New Zealand, Cadcorp, Adlink, EDS, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
- **Nationality:** New Zealander
- **Education:** BSc in Geography, Victoria University of Wellington, St John's College, Hastings
- **Known for:** Co-founded PredictHQ and led its expansion from Auckland to San Francisco., Helped pivot PredictHQ from a dashboard-oriented SaaS product to an API-first data platform in response to customer demand., Secured Uber as an early customer and helped expand the platform into enterprise forecasting, pricing, staffing and inventory workflows.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2008** — Spent seven years in London working in geospatial and advertising-technology roles, including work at the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, Cadcorp, Adlink and EDS.
- **2008** — Returned to New Zealand and moved into the startup sector.
- **2009-2012** — Joined the early team at GrabOne as marketing director; the daily-deals business scaled rapidly before its exit.
- **2012-2015** — Worked as chief marketing officer at global travel company Online Republic, where demand swings around events helped shape the PredictHQ idea.
- **2014-2015** — Co-founded PredictHQ in Auckland with Robert Kern and Mike Ballantyne; the company later committed to an API-first model.
- **2016** — Moved with his family to San Francisco after Uber became an early PredictHQ customer.
- **2018** — PredictHQ raised a $10 million Series A led by Aspect Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed and Rampersand.
- **2019** — PredictHQ won three categories at the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards: software, services and emerging company.
- **2020** — PredictHQ raised a $22 million Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures.
- **2025** — Brown announced that PredictHQ had reached sustainable profitability.
- **2026** — Positioned PredictHQ as a real-world context layer for enterprise AI and demonstrated a beta connection bringing its data into conversational workflows.

## Achievements

- Co-founded PredictHQ and led its expansion from Auckland to San Francisco.
- Helped pivot PredictHQ from a dashboard-oriented SaaS product to an API-first data platform in response to customer demand.
- Secured Uber as an early customer and helped expand the platform into enterprise forecasting, pricing, staffing and inventory workflows.
- Raised more than $33 million in total funding for PredictHQ, including a $10 million Series A and $22 million Series B.
- Led PredictHQ to sustainable profitability, announced in March 2025.
- Was part of the early GrabOne team that scaled the business rapidly in New Zealand.
- PredictHQ won three categories at the 2019 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Discussed PredictHQ's API-first evolution, enterprise AI integrations and the founder's relationship with stress on the Modern CTO podcast.
- **2026-06** — Shared a beta demonstration of PredictHQ real-world context working inside ChatGPT-style conversational workflows and said the platform had processed more than $6 trillion in demand data.
- **2026-05** — Spoke with Expedia Group about using event context to anticipate hotel demand in Las Vegas.
- **2025-03** — Announced that PredictHQ had reached sustainable profitability at the start of 2025.
- **2024-08** — Returned to the Diaspora.nz podcast to discuss PredictHQ's evolution, US fundraising and selling business value rather than product features.

## Links

- Website: https://www.predicthq.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/campbellbrown
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/PredictHQ
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predicthq

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Last updated: 2026-08-18