Brett Wilson
General Partner @ Swift Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Brett Wilson is a seed investor at Swift Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Brett Wilson is based out of Irvine, California, and is the Board of Director of Viant. Brett previously worked at TubeMogul as a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer. Brett Wilson attended the California State University
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Brett Wilson invests in
Stages Brett Wilson invests in
Countries Brett Wilson invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$11M
- Series A
- $1.3M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (31%)
- Software 3 (23%)
- Machine Learning 3 (23%)
- Information Technology 2 (15%)
- SaaS 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Series A 3 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (54%)
- Canada 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Dash Bio
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Dash Bio is a modern automated platform. It is redesigning drug development from the ground up, using AI, robotics, and fully integrated software to fundamentally change the way medications are brought to market. | $30M / Series A / Aug 03, 2026 | |
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Dash Bio
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Dash Bio is a modern automated platform. It is redesigning drug development from the ground up, using AI, robotics, and fully integrated software to fundamentally change the way medications are brought to market. | $11M / Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | |
LanceDB
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LanceDB is a serverless vector database for AI applications that is user-friendly for developers. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $30M / Series A / Jun 24, 2025 | |
Arize AI
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Arize is a leading AI and agent engineering platform that helps teams design, evaluate, and operate production-grade AI systems with reliability and speed. Built to be independent and interoperable across models, frameworks, and clouds — with open-standard instrumentation at its core — Arize unifies development and production workflows in Arize AX(with Alyx for copilot-powered analysis) and complements them with the open-source Phoenix and OpenInference projects. Arize is headquartered in Berkeley, CA. | $70M / Series C / Feb 20, 2025 | |
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Dash Bio
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Dash Bio is a modern automated platform. It is redesigning drug development from the ground up, using AI, robotics, and fully integrated software to fundamentally change the way medications are brought to market. | $6.5M / Seed / Oct 16, 2024 | |
Capsule
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Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $5.7M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | |
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Arize AI
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Arize is a leading AI and agent engineering platform that helps teams design, evaluate, and operate production-grade AI systems with reliability and speed. Built to be independent and interoperable across models, frameworks, and clouds — with open-standard instrumentation at its core — Arize unifies development and production workflows in Arize AX(with Alyx for copilot-powered analysis) and complements them with the open-source Phoenix and OpenInference projects. Arize is headquartered in Berkeley, CA. | $38M / Series B / Sep 07, 2022 | |
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Arize AI
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Arize is a leading AI and agent engineering platform that helps teams design, evaluate, and operate production-grade AI systems with reliability and speed. Built to be independent and interoperable across models, frameworks, and clouds — with open-standard instrumentation at its core — Arize unifies development and production workflows in Arize AX(with Alyx for copilot-powered analysis) and complements them with the open-source Phoenix and OpenInference projects. Arize is headquartered in Berkeley, CA. | $4M / Feb 12, 2020 | |
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Arize AI
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Arize is a leading AI and agent engineering platform that helps teams design, evaluate, and operate production-grade AI systems with reliability and speed. Built to be independent and interoperable across models, frameworks, and clouds — with open-standard instrumentation at its core — Arize unifies development and production workflows in Arize AX(with Alyx for copilot-powered analysis) and complements them with the open-source Phoenix and OpenInference projects. Arize is headquartered in Berkeley, CA. | $4M / Seed / Feb 12, 2020 | |
LatchBio
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LatchBio develops a data infrastructure intended to build and disseminate the open-source infrastructure of the biocomputing revolution. Founded in 2021 by Alfredo Andere, Kyle Giffin, and Kenny Workman, the company creates open-source machine learning and cloud infrastructure for the next generation of therapeutic discovery, thereby enablingbiotech companies to find therapies faster and save on engineering. | $200K / Pre-Seed / Jan 20, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Swift Ventures
Founders backing Founders. Swift Ventures is the fund that we wish existed when we were starting out -- a low-ego, sincerely helpful firm led by former founders who get it. With decades of company-building experience, Swift provides relevant and practical “garage-to-IPO” building and scaling expertise.We invest in AI and Automation companies withB2B business models. Typically, we are looking for companies that have an early compelling product with positive revenue and retention signals.
Swift Ventures Contacts
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Brett Wilson
General Partner
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John Hughes
General Partner
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Michelle Chen
Principal
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FAQ
What does Brett Wilson invest in?
Brett Wilson invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
What is Brett Wilson's check size?
Brett Wilson typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$11M at Seed and $1.3M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brett Wilson participates in.
When did Brett Wilson last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brett Wilson closed in Aug 2026. 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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