# Brandon Gardner

> Brandon Gardner is a Series D investor at The Raine Group (Brooklyn) backing SaaS and Mobile. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Raine Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/therainegroup)
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-gardner-323ab843/

Brandon Gardner is a Series D investor at The Raine Group in Brooklyn focused on SaaS and Mobile. Brandon is a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer at Raine. Prior to Raine, Brandon founded and was the senior operating officer of Serengeti Asset Management LP, a multi-strategy investment advisor based in New York City with an excess of $1 billion in assets under management. During his tenure at Serengeti, he managed the launch offour different funds and numerous other investment vehicles, and was responsible for overseeing all of the day-to-day operations of the firm (including legal, compliance, trading and regulatory matters). Brandon was also an active member of the investment team, managing sector- and strategy-specific portfolios as well as the firm's private investment opportunities. Prior to joining Serengeti in 2007, Brandon was a practicing attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP from 1999 to 2007. While at Cleary Gottlieb, Brandon gained significant experience in complex mergers & acquisitions and structured securities transactions and financing arrangements, representing and advising a wide variety of investment banking and corporate clients. He dealt with myriad cross-border international securities laws and complex corporate and capital market transactions, and gained expertise in both SEC-registered and private securities offerings. Brandon is on the board of directors of Jagex, one of Raine's portfolio companies.Brandon has a B.A. from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. from The Wharton School and a J.D. from Columbia University where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile | 1 | 100% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 100% |
| Restaurants | 1 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Olo | Olo powers digital ordering and delivery programs that connect restaurant brands to the on-demand world. Olo’s platform enables millions of orders per week across every stage of restaurant ecommerce, from fully-branded guest interfaces to the back-of-house order management features that keep over 60,000 restaurants running smoothly. Orders from Olointeract seamlessly with existing restaurant systems to help brands capture demand from brand direct website and apps, marketplaces, social media channels, and virtual assistant devices like the Amazon Echo. Over 100 million consumers use Olo to order ahead and get meals delivered from the restaurants they love, such as Applebee’s (DIN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Chili’s (EAT), Denny’s (DENN), Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Jamba Juice (JMBA), Noodles World Kitchen (NDLS), Shake Shack (SHAK), sweetgreen, Wingstop (WING), and more. SKIP THE LINE® | $40M | Series D |  |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About The Raine Group

VC Fund · New York, United States

An integrated merchant bank advising and investing in high growth sectors of technology, media and telecom. Offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore.

5 contacts available at The Raine Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brandon Gardner | Partner, Co-Founder President & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-gardner |
| Fred Davis | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-davis-3 |
| Jason Schretter | Partner / Head of EMEA | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-schretter |
| Kevin Linker | Managing Partner, Raine Next-Gen Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-linker |
| Todd Rosoff | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/todd-rosoff |

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## FAQ

### What does Brandon Gardner invest in?

Brandon Gardner invests primarily in SaaS, Mobile and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series D stage. Most of the 1 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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