Brian Garrett
Co-Founder and Managing Director @ Crosscut Ventures
Venice, United States
Brian Garrett is a seed investor at Crosscut Ventures in Venice focused on Software and E-Commerce. Brian Garrett is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Crosscut Ventures. He previously worked at StyleSaint as a Co-Founder. Brian Garrett attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (23%)
- E-Commerce 5 (16%)
- Information Technology 5 (16%)
- SaaS 4 (13%)
- Mobile 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (35%)
- Series A 5 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (10%)
- Series B 3 (10%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| FitOn is a free fitness app with more than 10M+ members who have completed over 1+ Billion workout minutes on the platform. It specializes in personal health, fitness, and mobile app. | $18M / Series B / Oct 12, 2021 | ||
| Welcome Tech is a digital platform that builds data-driven services for immigrant workforces. The company offers access to essential services, including healthcare, jobs, education, and financial tools. With over 4.5 million registered members and a growing base of enterprise partners, it enables inclusive economic participation while helpingemployers recruit, retain, and serve an increasingly diverse workforce. | $35M / Series B / Apr 21, 2021 | ||
| HiveWatch offers an AI-powered platform for managing physical security operations across enterprise environments. It unifies systems such as access control, video surveillance, incident management, and guard operations into a single dashboard called the HiveWatch GSOC Operating System. The company’s AI Operator helps reduce false alarms, automateroutine tasks (like reviewing camera footage or verifying alerts), escalate real incidents, and optimize security team workload. HiveWatch also delivers ongoing insights via analytics and device health monitoring to help decision-makers track performance and improve security posture. For organizations lacking fully staffed security operations centers, HiveWatch offers GSOC-as-a-Service, providing 24/7 operational support integrated with its platform. | $5M / Seed / Jan 14, 2021 | ||
| Rammer.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access to conversational intelligence for developers. They have developed the only platform that uses machine learning to analyze conversations in real-time proactively. The company aims to eliminate the complexity of building and maintaining conversational understandingsystems so that developers can focus on building delightful and productive experiences, using Rammer’s underlying technology.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $4.7M / Seed / Oct 30, 2020 | ||
| Welcome Tech is a digital platform that builds data-driven services for immigrant workforces. The company offers access to essential services, including healthcare, jobs, education, and financial tools. With over 4.5 million registered members and a growing base of enterprise partners, it enables inclusive economic participation while helpingemployers recruit, retain, and serve an increasingly diverse workforce. | $8M / Series A / Mar 03, 2020 | ||
| Kenshō is a health company that lives in LA, operates on the internet, and promotes a whole-person philosophy of care: mind, body, and spirit. The company, founded and led by proven entrepreneurs Krista Berlincourt and Danny Steiner, pairs scientific research with personalization technology to take the guesswork out holistic health, whetheryou're looking for an honest answer or a trusted provider. Berlincourt is known for nurturing and scaling some of the most loved emerging technology brands like Simple, Acorns, and Microsoft from the ground up. Steiner was a digital innovation change agent at NBC, Conde Nast, and Hulu before breaking into health and wellness with Brami, a venture-backed superfood company. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 11, 2019 | ||
| We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring for low cost distribution via an integrated web platform. | $10M / Seed / Apr 02, 2019 | ||
| Monarx is an advanced malware detection and remediation solution for web hosters. Web environments are secured with Monarx. Without the need for signatures, their cloud-delivered server security offers continuous, real-time harmful script detection and proactive prevention. Also, they provide a free hunting and repair engine for web shells andbackdoors. The technology reduces the attack surface by hardening servers and apps and offering actionable intelligence about online security posture based on actual best practices. Monarx is setting the standard for post-exploit exploit prevention that is not signature-based. | $3.9M / Seed / Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| Leveraging general-purpose computing on GPUs, FASTDATA.io has developed its PlasmaENGINE®, a high-performance computing software engine, to exploit the massively parallel processing capability of NVIDIA’s GPU platform. The PlasmaENGINE® accelerates stream processing up to three orders of magnitude faster, while simultaneously cutting power andspace requirements in the data center by more than 90%. The company was founded in 2016 by Alen Capalik. FASTDATA.io, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $5M / Seed / Mar 27, 2018 | ||
| We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring for low cost distribution via an integrated web platform. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 23, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Crosscut Ventures
Crosscut Ventures, one of LA’s longest-standing seed funds, invests in founders building solutions that provide humanity with a better future. Crosscut partners with founders focused on clean energy generation and power distribution, the commercialization of frontiers in space, the ocean, and the earth, decarbonization, and the upgrading of theU.S.'s defense systems. The firm is committed to using its 16+ years of experience, widespread connectivity, and proven playbooks to bring companies to commercial viability for the betterment of humanity.
Crosscut Ventures Contacts
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Brett Brewer
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Rick Smith
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Brian Garrett
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Lisa Riedmiller
CFO
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Mel Elias
Venture Partner
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What does Brian Garrett invest in?
Brian Garrett invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 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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