# Brett Calhoun

> Brett Calhoun is a pre-seed investor at Redbud VC backing Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Redbud VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-df67)
- Location: Columbia, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettcalhoun393/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/brettcalhounn
- Website: https://medium.com/@brett_Tcalhoun

Brett Calhoun is a pre-seed investor at Redbud VC in Columbia focused on Software and Banking. Brett Calhoun is the Managing Director & General Partner at Scale VC. Brett has co-founded two fintech startups with one scaling to over $1M ARR 12 months after launch, was an early employee at Paytient, and has 4 years of early-stage investing experience. Prior, he did transaction and litigation valuation work for startups to public companies.He also holds a CPA/ABV and MBA from Mizzou.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Banking | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |
| Payments | 2 | 15% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trestle | Trestle brings the fragmented construction contracting and procurement process under a single roof using automation, integration, and A.I. to increase process efficiency, data transparency, and provide contractors with a real-time learning loop. Trestle Benchmark let's construction organizations capture reviews on how their vendors perform andcombine this data with other internal and external sources into a single powerful vendor profile for project risk management. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 04, 2024 | https://www.gotrestle.com |
| Haven | Full stack accounting firm for startups and growing businesses. Learn more at usehaven.com |  | Pre-Seed | May 15, 2024 | https://usehaven.com/ |
| Braid | Braid enables financial institutions of all sizes to unlock opportunities beyond the local branch. We give them the tools to become “developer-first,” creating new streams of fee income and deposits. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2024 | https://www.braidfi.com/ |
| Transend | Transend provides solutions to architect, implement, migrate, message, and collaborate. They develop solutions for email systems. Their email migration solutions are used by organizations. Their services include express migration services and enterprise professional services. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 22, 2023 | https://transend.com |
| Clearing | Clearing is on a mission to help property managers close their books faster than ever and take permanent vacation from managing their property finances. Clearing offers trust accounting, automated bookkeeping, effortless owner and vendor payments, and automated unit-level cashflow reports. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2022 | https://getclearingbank.com |
| Seashell | Seashell is reimagining the flow of money. As a compliance-focused financial product, Seashell provides the simplest way to earn high and stable interest. Seashell's technology harnesses blockchain innovations to offer market-leading and compliant yields at the push of a button, putting more money into everyone's pocket. | $6M | Seed | Aug 13, 2022 | https://www.seashell.com/ |
| City Shoppe | Where SMBs market, grow, and acquire together. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2022 | https://cityshoppe.ai |
| Clearing | Clearing is on a mission to help property managers close their books faster than ever and take permanent vacation from managing their property finances. Clearing offers trust accounting, automated bookkeeping, effortless owner and vendor payments, and automated unit-level cashflow reports. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2022 | https://getclearingbank.com |
| HoundDog | HoundDog automates the business insurance verification and tracking process. Contractors, property owners, and others use HoundDog to verify insurance, save time and money, minimize hassle, and improve safety. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2022 | https://www.hounddog.com/ |
| Seashell | Seashell is reimagining the flow of money. As a compliance-focused financial product, Seashell provides the simplest way to earn high and stable interest. Seashell's technology harnesses blockchain innovations to offer market-leading and compliant yields at the push of a button, putting more money into everyone's pocket. | $6M | Seed | Jan 13, 2022 | https://www.seashell.com/ |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Millennial Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-millennial-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mh-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redbud VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-df67) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- SHOR — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [166 2nd Financial Services](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/166-2nd-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Great Wave Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agya-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Redbud VC

VC Fund · Columbia, United States

Redbud VC is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm investing in people strengthened by struggle, building massive tech companies.

4 contacts available at Redbud VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brett Calhoun | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-calhoun-6ba6 |
| Jabbok Schlacks | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jabbok-schlacks |
| Jai Malik | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jai-malik |
| William Schlacks | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/willy-schlacks |

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## FAQ

### What does Brett Calhoun invest in?

Brett Calhoun invests primarily in Software, Banking and FinTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Brett Calhoun?

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### When did Brett Calhoun last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brett Calhoun closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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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