Bradley Keywell
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Lightbank
Chicago, United States
Bradley Keywell is a Series A investor at Lightbank in Chicago focused on E-Commerce and Social Media. Bradley Keywell is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Uptake. He previously worked at Benzinga as a Board Member. Bradley Keywell attended the University of Michigan Law School.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Bradley Keywell invests in
Stages Bradley Keywell invests in
Countries Bradley Keywell invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (19%)
- Social Media 4 (15%)
- Education 3 (11%)
- SaaS 2 (7%)
- EdTech 2 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (22%)
- Seed 5 (19%)
- Series B 3 (11%)
- Funding Round 3 (11%)
- Angel 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 14 (52%)
- Ireland 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M / Angel / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Nubundle provides access to a concierge network of experienced family planning and fertility experts, preferred pricing at clinics and pharmacies, and just in time financing - all as a pass through employee benefit. | $1.5M / Seed / Nov 26, 2018 | ||
| Sprout Social provides social media engagement, publishing, and analytics for businesses. | $8M / Series B / Jun 27, 2014 | ||
| Tagkast is a photo marketing platform that event marketers use to engage with event guests, capture leads, and spread brand content on social media. | $3M / Series A / Jun 12, 2014 | ||
| Tapiture is a social platform that helps you discover, share and buy an endless assortment of cool stuff. Tapiture sorts through the internet and helps you find all the content you'll really like. You can browse through videos, photos, GIFs, articles and more from all over the web, and it'll quickly learn what you're all about.You can dive deep into specific interests, organize your favorites into collections, or share with your friends. Whether you use the mobile app for iPhone or Android or visit the website, Tapiture will always have an endless feed of stuff you'll like. Just try it out—you'll see! | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 11, 2014 | ||
| Reverb.com is a provider of an online marketplace intended for new, used, and vintage music gear. The company's marketplace was built to foster safe and secure transactions, inspire musicians to discover more ways to expand their playing and sound, and cultivate the most vibrant and inspired music community anywhere online. | $2.3M / Series A / Nov 19, 2013 | ||
| Pawngo is co-headquartered in Denver, where its secured fulfillment center is based, and Chicago at the offices of Lightbank. Prior to Lightbank's investment, Pawngo operated under the brand names Internet Pawn and Boomerang Lending. Pawngo is a licensed pawnbroker and complies fully with state-mandated pawnbroker statutes. | Oct 01, 2013 | ||
| Betterfly is the world's most diverse marketplace for people who want to better themselves and others. We connect talented individuals, known as Betterists, directly with the people who want their skills - making it easy for people to learn, look and feel better.A better way to find the right people: You won't see any companies in oursearch results, just skilled people. Why? We think that knowing the name of a great teacher, trainer or stylist is more important than knowing the name of a great school, salon or spa. Our exclusive focus on people means users can search efficiently and find exactly who they're looking for.1000+ ways to learn, look and feel better: Our Betterists offer fun, challenging, random and every day services in more categories than you can imagine. Take a class from a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, try out a new look with a fantastic hairstylist or get that raise with the help of a career coach. You can do almost anything on Betterfly.Better. Together.: Betterfly is a lively community of people who believe in better. We come together because we know that better makes people happy. We connect, discuss, share tips, set goals, ask questions, meet up, build thriving businesses and celebrate better in all its forms Join us! | $1M / Series B / Aug 21, 2013 | ||
| Pawngo is co-headquartered in Denver, where its secured fulfillment center is based, and Chicago at the offices of Lightbank. Prior to Lightbank's investment, Pawngo operated under the brand names Internet Pawn and Boomerang Lending. Pawngo is a licensed pawnbroker and complies fully with state-mandated pawnbroker statutes. | Aug 07, 2013 | ||
| Udemy's mission is to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy marketplace platform, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achievetheir goals and reach their full potential. Millions of people learn on Udemy from real-world experts in topics ranging from programming and data science to leadership and team building. For companies, Udemy Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, and the ability to host and distribute their own content. | $12M / Series B / Dec 07, 2012 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Lightbank
Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr(NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.
Lightbank Contacts
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Bill Pescatello
Advisor or General Partner
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Brad Baum
VC
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Bradley Keywell
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Eric Lefkofsky
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Eric Ong
Partner
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What does Bradley Keywell invest in?
Bradley Keywell invests primarily in E-Commerce, Social Media and Education startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Bradley Keywell last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bradley Keywell closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 27 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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