# Brandon Tidwell

> Brandon Tidwell is a Series A investor at Run Ventures (Salt Lake City) backing Software and SaaS. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Run Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/run-ventures-a16f)
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-tidwell-35a9aa/
- Website: https://www.spv.com/

Brandon Tidwell is a Series A investor at Run Ventures in Salt Lake City focused on Software and SaaS. Brandon Tidwell is based out of Salt Lake City, Utah and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Run Ventures. Brandon previously worked at Signal Peak Ventures as a Co-Founder and General Partner. Brandon Tidwell attended Columbia University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 24% |
| SaaS | 4 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 16% |
| Internet | 3 | 12% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 12% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 28% |
| Series B | 5 | 20% |
| Series C | 3 | 12% |
| Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series D | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 40% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CometChat | CometChat empowers developers to quickly add text chat & voice and video calling/conferencing to their websites and apps across industries ranging from virtual events and telehealth to social communities, online education, marketplaces, and more.The company's dedicated team is obsessed with building the most robust, easy-to-use,reliable in-app messaging solution on the market. And its chat API and cross-platform SDKs are incredibly secure and highly scalable. CometChat is united by a shared mission to enable meaningful connections between real people in an increasingly digital world. | $6.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Filevine | Filevine is a cloud-based project, team and client management app for legal professionals and firms. Filevine moves beyond using multiple applications that parse time and productivity by providing a singular digital office space. It allows users with different roles and responsibilities to work in real-time as it stores and tracks email, casediscussions, sharing and uploading files, collaboration on documents, tracking and setting due dates, and assigning tasks. | $108M | Series D | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Procurified | Construction SaaS Platform connecting Buyers & Suppliers to automate product Sourcing | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| True Fit | True Fit is a footwear and apparel discovery platform. Its Genome is mapped from the world’s largest collection of attribute-rich fit and style data for footwear and apparel. Genome helps retailers and brands unlock digital growth in the $1 trillion footwear and apparel industry. It powers the Confidence Engine, allowing retailers to provide highlypersonalized fit ratings and size recommendations to shoppers, resulting in dramatic increases in net revenue.True Fit is also helping to unlock digital growth with its Discovery Engine, which allows retailers to curate highly personalized collections for each consumer, and its True Insight platform provides retailers and brands unparalleled insights to optimize marketing, merchandising, and product development.True Fit is led by an experienced team of executives and leaders from the fashion, retail, big data, and e-commerce, and is backed by top investors. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 06, 2021 |  |
| Degreed | Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millionsof courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts.The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $153M | Series D | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Hubpay | Hubpay is an independently regulated provider of cross-border money services designed to increase financial inclusion in emerging markets. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 20, 2020 |  |
| Bark Technologies | Bark uses AI to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shooting threats. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trustbetween parent and child.Bark Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $26M | Series B | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Backbone PLM | Backbone’s modern, cloud-based, easy-to-use product development platform is helping fashion brands and design agencies make products smarter, faster, and at scale. | $10M | Series A | Aug 05, 2019 |  |
| Degreed | Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millionsof courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts.The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $35M | Series C | Jun 27, 2019 |  |
| Filevine | Filevine is a cloud-based project, team and client management app for legal professionals and firms. Filevine moves beyond using multiple applications that parse time and productivity by providing a singular digital office space. It allows users with different roles and responsibilities to work in real-time as it stores and tracks email, casediscussions, sharing and uploading files, collaboration on documents, tracking and setting due dates, and assigning tasks. | $8.3M | Series A | Jan 29, 2019 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Jump Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jump-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [GSV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsv-acceleration) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/album) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BYU Cougar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cougar-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Novel TMT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novel-tmt-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Owl Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/owl-ventures-lp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Run Ventures

VC Fund

Run Ventures organization assists aspirational entrepreneurs in starting businesses in groundbreaking fields like artificial intelligence.

3 contacts available at Run Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brandon Tidwell | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-tidwell |
| Travis Heath | CFO & Administrative Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/travis-heath |
| Ben Dahl | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-dahl |

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## FAQ

### What does Brandon Tidwell invest in?

Brandon Tidwell invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 25 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 Brandon Tidwell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brandon Tidwell closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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