# Bre Pettis

> Bre Pettis is a seed investor at Bantam Tools backing Big Data. See 9 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Bantam Tools
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brepettis
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bre

Bre Pettis is a seed investor at Bantam Tools in New York focused on Big Data and Machine Learning. Bre Pettis is the Business Owner of Bantam Tools. He was a Co-Founder and CEO at MakerBot. He attended Pacific Oaks College.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 3 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 33% |
| Apps | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile | 2 | 22% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 22% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 89% |
| India | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Expertrons | Expertrons is an AI video bot platform created to help students and professionals prepare for interviews. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 16, 2021 |  |
| CARMERA | CARMERA provides real-time 3D maps and navigation-critical data for autonomous vehicles, as well as 3D scene reconstruction and site analytics data for professionals in architecture, construction, real estate and other built environment segments.CARMERA operates an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network built from theground up, that gathers continually updated 3D scene, change detection and analytics data. Our machine vision and geospatial data pipelines extract rich texture and insight for autonomous vehicles and built environment data customers, while helping make vehicles on city streets safer and adhering to privacy best practices.CARMERA’s mission is to automate cities by maintaining the world’s most robust real-time, street-level intelligence platform and to make it accessible to anyone. | $6.4M |  | Jun 06, 2017 |  |
| Nautiluslabs.co | Nautilus Labs is advancing the efficiency of ocean commerce through artificial intelligence. With hubs in New York, Singapore, and Paris, the firm is trusted by clients across the globe to help make better, real-time decisions that ultimately unlock transformative outcomes—at sea and on shore. By partnering with Nautilus, ocean shipping leaders canmaximize returns for every vessel and voyage while driving cross-team collaboration, greater transparency, and stronger accountability for their companies, shareholders, and the planet we all share. | $2M | Seed | Dec 23, 2016 |  |
| Nautilus Labs | Nautilus Labs is a technology company that offers decarbonization of the ocean supply chain. | $2M | Seed | Dec 23, 2016 |  |
| Happy Any Hour | Happy helps bars and restaurants solve excess capacity through time-based, localized happy hours to people nearby. |  | Seed | Apr 22, 2016 |  |
| Glowforge | Glowforge is a manufacturer of 3D laser printers intended to offer printing services on a wide range of materials and many more.The company's printers utilize software and sensors to cut, engrave, and shape designs from a variety of materials, enabling users to print and decorate any materials. | $9M | Series A | May 20, 2015 |  |
| Freemit | Freemit is a financial travel companion that empowers 3.6 billion travelers, students and others with a digital wallet, giving them financial independence to instantly access their financial resources using bitcoin. | $120K | Angel | Jan 07, 2015 |  |
| Local Motors | Local Motors is an American motor vehicle company that creates and delivers safe and accessible mobility solutions for local communities. The company utilizes its growing system of microfactories, rather than gigantic megafactories, to build small, just-in-time batches of vehicles through direct digital manufacturing, the process of using softwareto map, create, and edit designs. This allows Local Motors to make its ideas big and its footprint small, reducing the need for capital and decreasing its environmental impact.Local Motors operates under the belief that co-creation (the process of open collaboration for the design and development of vehicles) and micro-manufacturing can change the world of transportation. Local Motors operates a growing global network of microfactories, where each destination is a place for innovators to create amazing products and consumers the opportunity to marvel and shop. It has rallied a global network of inspired innovators ready to confront the world’s most formidable challenges. These dreamers and doers have brought to life a portfolio of vehicles, including Olli, the world's first cognitive, self-driving shuttle. Their creative potential is launching a new industrial revolution. Local Motors offers this unique software as a service platform known as Launch Forth, to offer the power of co-creation and micro-manufacturing to select partners, including GE and Airbus, looking for manufacturing agility and boundless creative potential.Local Motors was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, USA. |  |  | Jul 01, 2014 |  |
| Dash | Dash Labs, Inc. is a connected car platform, built to make the roads smarter, safer, greener and more affordable. | $1M | Seed | Dec 31, 2013 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ah! Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Auxano](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/auxano) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chandigarh Angels Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chandigarh-angelsnetwork) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HEM ANGELS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hem-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hyderabad Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyderabad-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Iceland Venture Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iceland-venture-studio) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Bantam Tools

VC Fund · Peekskill, United States

Other Machine develops software and hardware products focused on digital desktop manufacturing. Its proprietary product, Othermill, is a portable desktop CNC mill that enables users to create 2D and 3D objects out of durable materials such as wood, metal, and plastic using digital designs. Users can create enclosures, inlay, mechanical parts,stamps, models, molds, and more.Other Machine was founded by Sarah Tappon and Saul Griffith in 2013, and is based in San Francisco, California.

2 contacts available at Bantam Tools.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bre Pettis | Business Owner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bre-pettis |
| Sarah Tappon | Founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Bre Pettis invest in?

Bre Pettis invests primarily in Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Bre Pettis?

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### When did Bre Pettis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bre Pettis closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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