Brad Flora
Group Partner @ Y Combinator
San Francisco, United States
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
- Total investments:
- 236
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
Last updated:
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Industries Brad Flora invests in
Stages Brad Flora invests in
Countries Brad Flora invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$500k
- Series A
- $1M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 84 (36%)
- Software 78 (33%)
- Information Technology 40 (17%)
- SaaS 33 (14%)
- FinTech 31 (13%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 125 (53%)
- Seed 89 (38%)
- Series A 10 (4%)
- Funding Round 3 (1%)
- Series B 2 (1%)
Country
- United States 165 (70%)
- United Kingdom 8 (3%)
- Mexico 5 (2%)
- India 4 (2%)
- Nigeria 4 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Catchback Cards offers a platform for buying, selling, storing, and auctioning collectibles with pack opening and card-backed loan services. | $8M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| TryNearby connects local businesses with nearby creators to automate authentic user generated content, reviews, and local discovery. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Decawork provides software for IT teams to deploy, govern, and maintain internal AI agents. The platform gives each agent a separate identity and scoped credentials, with IT approval required before deployment. It routes tool calls through a governed gateway, records and attributes actions, and supports approval workflows for sensitive operations. Decawork also monitors agent runs, alerts IT when credentials or integrations fail, and enables teams to pause, restore, or retire agents. The service supports agents built with Claude Code, Codex, or other technology stacks. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| CoArena provides a live evaluation platform and public leaderboard where AI computer-use agents race side-by-side on real-world tasks. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Prodigy Research trains foundation models and autonomous AI agents for quantitative trading across global financial markets. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Touchmark provides AI infrastructure solutions focused on solving pricing challenges through artificial intelligence technologies. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Agent FM is AI desktop application that helps users to complete the described tasks across files, browser, and inbox. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Caution provides a verifiable confidential compute platform that delivers cryptographic proof for secure and trusted workload execution. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Financial Datasets is a stock market platform that provides structured financial and market data for AI agents, and quantitative research. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Dock is a B2B AI enterprise software company providing a multiplayer agent workspace for human-AI team collaboration. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Y Combinator
Y Combinator invests a standard amount of capital in exchange for equity and through uncapped safe agreements. Participants engage in a three-month intensive cycle that focuses on product development and preparations for fundraising. The firm offers access to a private networking platform for knowledge sharing and hosts events featuring speakers from various sectors. This program culminates in a presentation event where founders showcase their businesses to a curated group of investors.
Y Combinator Contacts
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Boris Jabes
Visiting Partner
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Luther Lowe
Head of Public Policy
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Max Kolysh
Visiting Partner
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Brad Flora
Group Partner
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Calvin French-Owen
Visiting Group Partner
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FAQ
What does Brad Flora invest in?
Brad Flora invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 236 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Brad Flora invest in?
Brad Flora typically joins rounds of $500k–$5M at Seed, $500k–$500k at Pre-Seed and $1M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Brad Flora's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Brad Flora took part in.
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When did Brad Flora last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brad Flora closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 236 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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