Brett Queener
Partner & Managing Director @ Bonfire Ventures
Santa Barbara, United States
Brett Queener is a seed investor at Bonfire Ventures in Santa Barbara focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Brett is a Partner at Bonfire Ventures. His entire career has been focused on growing software companies -- fast. From 2013-2016, Brett served as COO at SmartRecruiters, where he partnered with the founder to work through the 'hard things about hard things" and converted a pre-revenue company into the fastest growing and highest-ratedenterprise player in the recruiting technology space. Prior to SmartRecruiters, Brett spent a decade at Salesforce.com where he served in a variety of senior leadership roles in Sales, R&D, and Operations focused on driving the company's growth and expansion across market segments and product categories. Select titles held at Salesforce included VP of Field Operations, SVP Operations, SVP Products, EVP/GM of Data Cloud, and EVP/GM of Marketing Cloud. Prior to Salesforce.com, Brett held senior marketing and business development at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle). Brett is an active seed investor and advisor to numerous software entrepreneurs and serves on the board of SmartRecruiters, Pendo, Lytics, Invoca, ClearedIn, SpekIt, and Aforza. Other angel investments include MOAT (acquired by Oracle for $850mm), Guru, Outreach, Postie, and Trackstreet. Brett has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
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Industries Brett Queener invests in
Stages Brett Queener invests in
Countries Brett Queener invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (48%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (32%)
- SaaS 7 (28%)
- Analytics 3 (12%)
- Health Care 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 17 (68%)
- Series A 6 (24%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Series E 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 19 (76%)
- Germany 1 (4%)
Investments
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| Katalyze AI develops artificial intelligence software for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Its platform connects raw material, laboratory, and manufacturing data to support process monitoring, quality management, and production workflows. The company uses purpose-built AI models to analyze bioprocess data, identify process deviations,and provide insights that help improve manufacturing efficiency while supporting regulatory compliance. Its software integrates with existing laboratory and manufacturing systems, enabling organizations to consolidate data and automate parts of their biomanufacturing operations. | $10.5M / Seed / Jul 06, 2026 | ||
| Vali Health delivers AI-driven software that automates core workflows for home care agencies, including scheduling, hiring, compliance tracking, and routine communication. The platform functions as a virtual assistant that operates around the clock, coordinating shifts, sending reminders, and handling common administrative tasks through digitalchannels. Vali Health focuses on reducing manual workload for office staff while improving responsiveness to caregivers and clients. The system supports caregiver retention by sending personalized messages such as birthday greetings, shift follow-ups, and check-ins that acknowledge individual contributions. Integrations with existing home care management tools aim to keep client information, caregiver availability, and documentation aligned. Analytics features help agency leaders monitor staffing patterns, engagement levels, and operational bottlenecks so that adjustments can be made in real time. By embedding automation into everyday processes, Vali Health encourages more consistent communication and smoother coordination of in-home services. | $6M / Seed / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Youlify offers AI solutions for medical billing, denied claims investigation, and real-time financial insights. | $4.3M / Seed / Apr 16, 2025 | ||
| Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started. | $5M / Seed / Mar 25, 2025 | ||
| Mithrl is a software development company that builds the custom workflows for NGS data on-demand. | $4M / Seed / Nov 14, 2024 | ||
| TeamSense is empowering organizations to better engage and enable their hourly workers. | $4M / Seed / Aug 29, 2023 | ||
| Blueprint is an AI-powered assistant for therapists. Blueprint automates progress notes, drafts smart treatment plans, and surfaces actionable insights before, during, and after every client session. The company's mission is to build AI-assisted products to enable therapist-powered care. | $12.6M / Series A / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Suite Studios is an intelligent platform making cloud-based post-production easy and accessible to all post-production studios. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States. | $3.5M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | ||
| Demoleap is the only AI-powered live demo assistant and sales discovery platform empowering sales teams available on the market. Demoleap is an Israeli-founded company with offices in Delaware, Israel, and Ireland backed by US investors and firms, such as 25madison , Ground Up Ventures , former Cisco CMO Blair Christie , Atrium Co-Founder PeterKazanjy , Aforza CEO Dominic Dinard , Fourand CEO Chaim Lever , and David Magerman , managing partner and CTO at Differential Ventures. | $4.4M / Seed / Aug 18, 2022 | ||
| Cube is the first spreadsheet-native FP&A platform that helps strategic finance teams build multi-scenario plans, track performance, and drive business decisions using the spreadsheets they've come to rely on. By integrating FP&A automation and workflows into the tools users live in every day, including Excel and Google Sheets, Cubeenables teams to quickly and confidently plan for the unexpected and stay ahead of changes. To learn more, join Cube’s community Strategic Finance Pros on Slack (https://www.cubesoftware.com/community-survey) or visit cubesoftware.com.Cube pairs the power and performance of an enterprise engine with the flexibility and familiarity of the world’s most universal UI—the spreadsheet, enabling teams to quickly and confidently plan for the unexpected and stay ahead of changes.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York. | $30M / Series B / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
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About Bonfire Ventures
Bonfire Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm managing over $1B in assets and focused exclusively on B2B software. The firm leads a small number of high-conviction investments each year and partners closely with founders from seed through the messy middle and beyond. Bonfire takes a hands-on approach, working with founders on early product, go-to-market, and the practical application of AI across the business.
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Dominique Yadegar
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Jennifer Richard
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Brett Queener invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
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