Brad Gillespie
General Partner @ IA Ventures
New York, United States
Brad Gillespie is a seed investor at IA Ventures in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Brad is a Partner at IA Ventures, helping start the firm in 2010. Since then, they’ve seeded over 100 companies including Datadog, The Trade Desk, TransferWise, Flatiron Health, Komodo Health, DataRobot, DigitalOcean, and Recorded Future. Prior to IA, he spent over fifteen years in product, technology, and leadership roles — including theTechnology Advisor to Microsoft’s CTO. Brad holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington. A bit of his investment approach can be found here: http://j.mp/InvestmentPhilosophy
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
Last updated:
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Industries Brad Gillespie invests in
Stages Brad Gillespie invests in
Countries Brad Gillespie invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (16%)
- SaaS 4 (13%)
- Cloud Computing 4 (13%)
- Machine Learning 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (29%)
- Series A 8 (26%)
- Series B 7 (23%)
- Series C 3 (10%)
- Series D 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 14 (45%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
Investments
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Kepler Communications
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Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company that is working towards establishing an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. Put simply, we are building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new businessopportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure.The company is currently developing technologies and delivering services that solved terrestrial connectivity needs, offering terrestrial wideband and soon-to-be narrowband connectivity services for IoT applications.With Kepler's first service, named Global Data ServiceTM, they have been able to pack more Mbps into a nanosatellite than anybody else ever before. This wideband service delivers a store-and-forward type of solution for companies needing to move large quantities of delay-tolerant data from regions where connectivity is limited or non-existent. It is designed to transfer 100s of GBs of data monthly between remote locations and company headquarters or the internet. This service is available today for trials.Kepler is also developing a satellite service for Internet of Things devices – called everywhereIoTTM. A low-power, low-cost, bi-directional narrowband satellite service that will allow to connect assets all around the globe (at sea, land and even in the poles). With two satellites already in orbit, and a third scheduled for launch later in 2019, the company is currently preparing the deployment of its first LEO constellation for 2020. | $92M / Series C / Apr 13, 2023 | |
LootLocker
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LootLocker is the game backend that unlocks the tools needed for game developers to build, ship and run the best games. LootLocker provides out-of-the-box game features, backend services, and live ops tools for all games regardless of genre, scope, engine, or platform. | $2.1M / Seed / May 11, 2022 | |
Ethyca
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Ethyca is an infrastructure platform that provides developers and product teams with the ability to ensure consumer data privacy throughout applications and services design. It also provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your user's data. The company helpscompanies discover sensitive data, then provides a mechanism for customers to delete, see or edit their data from the system. Ethyca's mission is to increase trust in data-driven business by building automated data privacy infrastructure. | $7.5M / Series A / Nov 03, 2021 | |
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Kepler Communications
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Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company that is working towards establishing an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. Put simply, we are building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new businessopportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure.The company is currently developing technologies and delivering services that solved terrestrial connectivity needs, offering terrestrial wideband and soon-to-be narrowband connectivity services for IoT applications.With Kepler's first service, named Global Data ServiceTM, they have been able to pack more Mbps into a nanosatellite than anybody else ever before. This wideband service delivers a store-and-forward type of solution for companies needing to move large quantities of delay-tolerant data from regions where connectivity is limited or non-existent. It is designed to transfer 100s of GBs of data monthly between remote locations and company headquarters or the internet. This service is available today for trials.Kepler is also developing a satellite service for Internet of Things devices – called everywhereIoTTM. A low-power, low-cost, bi-directional narrowband satellite service that will allow to connect assets all around the globe (at sea, land and even in the poles). With two satellites already in orbit, and a third scheduled for launch later in 2019, the company is currently preparing the deployment of its first LEO constellation for 2020. | $60M / Series B / Jun 09, 2021 | |
Coiled
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Coiled is a modern solution for seamlessly scaling data science, machine learning, and AI in Python. | $21M / Series A / May 18, 2021 | |
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Coiled
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Coiled is a modern solution for seamlessly scaling data science, machine learning, and AI in Python. | $5M / Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
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Ethyca
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Ethyca is an infrastructure platform that provides developers and product teams with the ability to ensure consumer data privacy throughout applications and services design. It also provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your user's data. The company helpscompanies discover sensitive data, then provides a mechanism for customers to delete, see or edit their data from the system. Ethyca's mission is to increase trust in data-driven business by building automated data privacy infrastructure. | $4.2M / Seed / Jul 25, 2019 | |
DataRobot
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DataRobot delivers AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises competing in today’s intelligence revolution. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston,Massachusetts. | $100M / Series D / Oct 24, 2018 | |
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Kepler Communications
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Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company that is working towards establishing an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. Put simply, we are building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new businessopportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure.The company is currently developing technologies and delivering services that solved terrestrial connectivity needs, offering terrestrial wideband and soon-to-be narrowband connectivity services for IoT applications.With Kepler's first service, named Global Data ServiceTM, they have been able to pack more Mbps into a nanosatellite than anybody else ever before. This wideband service delivers a store-and-forward type of solution for companies needing to move large quantities of delay-tolerant data from regions where connectivity is limited or non-existent. It is designed to transfer 100s of GBs of data monthly between remote locations and company headquarters or the internet. This service is available today for trials.Kepler is also developing a satellite service for Internet of Things devices – called everywhereIoTTM. A low-power, low-cost, bi-directional narrowband satellite service that will allow to connect assets all around the globe (at sea, land and even in the poles). With two satellites already in orbit, and a third scheduled for launch later in 2019, the company is currently preparing the deployment of its first LEO constellation for 2020. | $14.9M / Series A / Oct 15, 2018 | |
Lygos - Better Materials for Better Products
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Lygos is providing biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges. They engineer microbes to convert sugars into high-value, industrial chemicals, targeting compounds where biological production is cost-advantaged over petrochemical production. The company's throughput screening and strain construction facilitate the rapidoptimization of pathways to convert cheap and renewable feedstock to high-value chemicals.Founded in 2011, Lygos is headquartered in Berkeley, California. | $15.5M / Series B / Jul 17, 2018 | |
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About IA Ventures
IA Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage investments in the fintech sector. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in information technology, e-commerce, software, financial services, healthcare, media, big data, and business services sectors.
IA Ventures Contacts
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Brad Gillespie
General Partner
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Jesse Beyroutey
Managing Partner
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Roger Ehrenberg
Founder & Managing Partner
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What does Brad Gillespie invest in?
Brad Gillespie invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Brad Gillespie last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brad Gillespie closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 31 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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