Brady Brim-DeForest
Angel Investor · at Late Stage Capital
Santa Monica, United States
Brady Brim-DeForest is a seed investor at Late Stage Capital in Santa Monica focused on Mobile and Travel. Brady is a serial entrepreneur, author, digital pioneer, and technologist on a mission to transform the future of innovation. He is CEO & Managing Partner at Late Stage Capital, and serves as Chairman of BluShift Aerospace. He is a co-founder of Monks, where he served as CEO of the Technology Services practice, Formula.Monks. He has co-foundedsix successful startups, closed sales worth over $500 million, and helped global, monolithic organizations reorganize for innovation. An in-demand mentor, speaker, and writer on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, and diversity, Brady has more than 20 years of experience in product design, brand strategy, and startup management. Brady helped pioneer the application of lean product design, Agile development, and autonomous, self-empowered teams within the Enterprise and has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies implement radical new processes that enable them to design, build, and ship competitive products at startup speeds.Across the course of his career, Brady led platform and product architecture for services that power enterprise-scale technology solutions for customers like AT&T, Apple, American Express, Caterpillar, Cisco, Disney, Fox , Nielsen, Ubisoft and more — including software systems designed for global scale and mission-critical uptime in finance, telecom, media, and healthcare verticals.Brady has spoken at numerous conferences in his fields of expertise, including NATPE, NAB, Digital Hollywood, DMA, NextTV, OMMA, IoT Security Summit, Act One, Cannes, CREtech, Revenue, and NxtStage, and he has guest lectured at both UCLA and USC on topics including product design, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation.Brady is an elected Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.. Brady Brim-DeForest attended the University of Southern California.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries Brady Brim-DeForest invests in
Stages Brady Brim-DeForest invests in
Countries Brady Brim-DeForest invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $120k–$3.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 2 (18%)
- Travel 2 (18%)
- Apps 1 (9%)
- Shoes 1 (9%)
- AgTech 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (64%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (9%)
- Convertible Note 1 (9%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| bluShift Aerospace is an employee-owned American aerospace firm based in Brunswick, Maine. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| Snibbs is a retail and wholesale company that manufactures and supply a range of shoes and orthotic services for men and women online. | Seed / Jul 01, 2023 | ||
| bluShift Aerospace is an employee-owned American aerospace firm based in Brunswick, Maine. | $887.6K / Equity Crowdfunding / Apr 16, 2021 | ||
| Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providingunprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 29, 2016 | ||
| Betterview is a property intelligence platform that assists property insurers in analyzing, scoring, managing, and monitoring property risk. Betterview improves the customer experience by accelerating decisions and improving risk at every point of the lifecycle. Betterview combines geospatial data sources, interprets them using proprietary MLtechnology, and converts the resulting insights into understandable and actionable insights. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Feb 23, 2016 | ||
| Betterview is a property intelligence platform that assists property insurers in analyzing, scoring, managing, and monitoring property risk. Betterview improves the customer experience by accelerating decisions and improving risk at every point of the lifecycle. Betterview combines geospatial data sources, interprets them using proprietary MLtechnology, and converts the resulting insights into understandable and actionable insights. | $1.6M / Seed / Feb 23, 2016 | ||
| Mytable is a marketplace and delivery service for home cooked meals. They partner with the best cooks in your community to bring home cooked meals direct to your door. They believe that everyone deserves a home cooked meal and the best meals come from home kitchens. | $1.8M / Convertible Note / Dec 01, 2015 | ||
| Journy is a personalized travel planning service that pairs travelers 1-on-1 with their own personal trip designer. We create custom itineraries complete with accommodations, activities, restaurant reservations, and more—all tailored to a traveler’s unique preferences. With the perfect combination of human care and proprietary technology, we’reable to deliver a high-touch service for a transparent flat rate of $25 or $50 per travel day ($25 without restaurant reservations and activity bookings, $50 with). | $120K / Seed / Oct 13, 2015 | ||
| Service gets you paid when your flight is delayed or cancelled. | $3.1M / Seed / Oct 13, 2015 | ||
| Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providingunprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry. | $1.4M / Seed / Jun 30, 2015 | ||
| See all 11 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Brady Brim-DeForest invest in?
Brady Brim-DeForest invests primarily in Mobile, Travel and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Brady Brim-DeForest's check size?
Brady Brim-DeForest typically joins rounds of $120k–$3.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brady Brim-DeForest participates in.
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When did Brady Brim-DeForest last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brady Brim-DeForest closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 11 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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