Brad Zions
Founder and GP @ Pitbull Ventures
Los Angeles, United States
Brad Zions is a Los Angeles-based investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder and GP of Pitbull Ventures, a seed/preseed fund based in Los Angeles.Zions has deep domain expertise in digital media and the restaurant, apparel, and entertainment industries. Zions has been an active early-stage investor for the past 20 years, both as a partnerat Structure Fund and individually. Big winners in his portfolio include Clutter, Parachute Home, Harri, Vidmob, Pocket Watch and Embrace. Recent exits include Jukin Media, Podsights, Donut Media, and Venga. Previous exits include QXL (now Tradus, which Naspers acquired in 2008) and Google via Ron Conway's Angel funds I and II.Zions partnered with chef Alan Jackson in March 2009 to co-found Lemonade Restaurant Group. Serving as CFO until January 2011, Zions raised capital for the rapidly expanding fast-casual concept and helped grow Lemonade to 10+ locations.
- Total investments:
- 59
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Brad Zions invests in
Stages Brad Zions invests in
Countries Brad Zions invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $800k–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $125k–$680k
- Series A
- $1M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (24%)
- SaaS 11 (19%)
- E-Commerce 6 (10%)
- Digital Entertainment 5 (8%)
- Analytics 4 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 26 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (20%)
- Series A 8 (14%)
- Funding Round 2 (3%)
- Convertible Note 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 46 (78%)
- Sweden 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Puttr is a sporting goods manufacturing company that offers a practice putting with the world's first smart putting green golf. | Pre-Seed / Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| Automation and machine learning software to help physical therapy clinics reach their profit potential | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| We remove the barriers to fitness to help everyone reach their full potential. | $26M / Series A / Oct 04, 2022 | ||
| Vega Cloud is a SaaS application for public cloud infrastructure management. | $9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 28, 2022 | ||
| Second-hand furniture marketplace. Shopify for consignment stores. | $125K / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2022 | ||
| Beagle is a trusted water security partner for water monitoring and leak detection technology. Beagle's mission is to provide the best-in-class customer experience in setting up and installing leak detection hardware, ranging from machine learning-enabled automatic shutoff valves to flow rate monitors to moisture-detecting point sensors.Founded in 2021, the company is based in Los Angeles, California. | Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| Beagle is a trusted water security partner for water monitoring and leak detection technology. Beagle's mission is to provide the best-in-class customer experience in setting up and installing leak detection hardware, ranging from machine learning-enabled automatic shutoff valves to flow rate monitors to moisture-detecting point sensors.Founded in 2021, the company is based in Los Angeles, California. | $1.7M / Seed / Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| EmailAnalytics is a SaaS tool built for managers and team leaders who want to visualize their team's email productivity. Graphs, charts, lists, and dashboards at your fingertips so you can monitor productivity of your employees and team members. | Pre-Seed / May 19, 2022 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Automation and machine learning software to help physical therapy clinics reach their profit potential | Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Pitbull Ventures
Pitbull Ventures is a pre-seed VC firm in Los Angeles that backs US vertical SAAS startups
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What does Brad Zions invest in?
Brad Zions invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Brad Zions's check size?
Brad Zions typically joins rounds of $800k–$6M at Seed, $125k–$680k at Pre-Seed and $1M–$26M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brad Zions participates in.
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When did Brad Zions last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brad Zions closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 59 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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