# Brian Bedol

> Brian Bedol is a seed investor backing Analytics and Machine Learning. See 6 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbedol
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/brizilla

Brian Bedol is a seed investor focused on Analytics and Machine Learning. Brian Bedo is a Senior Advisor at MIT Center for Constructive Communication. He was the Co-Founder of Sportsrocket and NowThis.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 2 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Video | 1 | 17% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bee | Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 29, 2024 | https://bee.computer |
| OpenWeb | OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures. | $13M | Series A | Aug 03, 2016 | https://www.openweb.com |
| Infinite Analytics | Infinite Analytics' AI platform, Sherlock democratizes data based consumer insights. It’s a SAAS platform that offers an easy-to-use UI for companies and individuals to analyze consumer behavior for their brands and action on it. Sherlock.ai does to AI-driven Consumer Insights Platform what AWS did to Data Centers. With Sherlock, companies(enterprise, medium and small) can now subscribe to consumer insights, along with recommendations of the actions required to grow their business, instead of spending time, labor and money on building complex data and analytics systems.Creating a technology stack to mine multiple data sets for signals on consumer behavior requires heavy investment, building a tech savvy and a data science team and a team with enough experience to manage infrastructure. It also requires a team to manage the interoperability of all the components of this entire infrastructure/technology stack. It takes years to get this stack together and a few more years to get it to provide the consumer insights and actions for it. This is usually only within consideration of large companies because of the significant investment in terms of capital both human and monetary. Such infrastructure also requires tremendous amounts of ongoing maintenance.Sherlock helps companies convert their Capital Expenses (on consumer insights) into Operational Insights. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2014 | http://www.infiniteanalytics.com |
| Twill | Happify is a behavior change technology company that drives personal, business, and healthcare outcomes through improved emotional health. It features science-based activities and games that tackle topics such as resilience and mindfulness, as well as conditions ranging from depression and anxiety to chronic pain and insomnia. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 22, 2013 | https://my.happify.com/ |
| Bluefin Labs | Bluefin Labs is a social TV analytics company providing solutions to brand advertisers, advertising agencies and TV networks. Bluefin Labs’ technology, data and professional services enable clients to tap into data at scale that links people’s social media commentary to the shows and commercials they watch on TV. Grounded in 15 years of cognitivescience and machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab, Bluefin Labs was founded in 2008 and has offices in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. Bluefin Labs was acquired by Twitter on February 5, 2013.For more about Bluefin Labs, visit www.bluefinlabs.com. | $6M | Series A | Oct 01, 2010 | http://www.bluefinlabs.com |
| Bluefin Labs | Bluefin Labs is a social TV analytics company providing solutions to brand advertisers, advertising agencies and TV networks. Bluefin Labs’ technology, data and professional services enable clients to tap into data at scale that links people’s social media commentary to the shows and commercials they watch on TV. Grounded in 15 years of cognitivescience and machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab, Bluefin Labs was founded in 2008 and has offices in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. Bluefin Labs was acquired by Twitter on February 5, 2013.For more about Bluefin Labs, visit www.bluefinlabs.com. | $1.2M | Seed | May 01, 2009 | http://www.bluefinlabs.com |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acadia Woods Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acadia-woods-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Banana Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banana-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EXOR N.V.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kepha Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kepha-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Bedol invest in?

Brian Bedol invests primarily in Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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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### When did Brian Bedol last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Bedol closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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