# Brian Hopcraft

> Brian Hopcraft is a Series A investor at Lewis & Clark Ventures backing Analytics and Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lewis & Clark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lewis---clark-ventures)
- Location: St Louis, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hopcraft-91b6922

Brian Hopcraft is a Series A investor at Lewis & Clark Ventures in St Louis focused on Analytics and Software. Brian Hopcraft is the Managing Director and Founder of Lewis & Clark Ventures. Brian previously worked at Answers as a SVP Operations, Answers Cloud Services. He attended Miami University in 1984.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 3 | 75% |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Consulting | 1 | 25% |
| Employment | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 75% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dalia | Dalia is a candidate engagement platform helping employers to hire passive talents. This platform helps to connect with a career site or applicant tracking system to uncover lost candidates and match them to the right job at the right time. | $5M | Series A | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Amper Technologies | Amper enables manufacturers to always meet production targets and level-up operations using real-time visibility. With our powerful machine monitoring and analytics tools, teams can easily identify the root causes of issues and systematically unlock hidden capacity and production losses. Born on the shop floor, Amper is simple to use and takes onlyminutes to deploy on any kind of machine. We empower entire manufacturing teams - from operators to plant managers - with actionable data and intuitive software. Amper's vision is to create a FactoryOS to unleash the potential of every manufacturer and create world-class operations. Amper is headquartered in Chicago IL and was founded in 2016 by Akshat Thirani and Philip House. | $11M | Series A | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| Bindplane | Blue Medora’s pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service addresses today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data–no matter its source–with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. Blue Medora helps customers unlock dimensional data across their IT stack, otherwise hidden by traditionalapproaches to metrics collection. |  | Series B | Aug 30, 2016 |  |
| Springbuk | Springbuk provides a health analytics software solution to prevent disease with data. Its health intelligence platform unifies medical claims, pharmacy, biometric, and activity data. The predictive modeling engine helps employers target their engagement with pinpoint accuracy, forecast overall healthcare spending, identify at-risk employees, andmeasure their wellness programs.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. |  | Series A | May 19, 2016 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Corazon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corazon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Converge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/converge-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Elevate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lewis & Clark Ventures

VC Fund · St Louis, United States

Lewis & Clark Ventures was founded by former operators with the conviction that innovation and entrepreneurial talent are plentiful in geographies often overlooked. They invest in the highest potential B2B software, fintech, and digital health companies. Their vision is to become a trusted partner to every entrepreneur that they back and assistin their journey towards scale and significance.

5 contacts available at Lewis & Clark Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Poldoian | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-poldoian |
| Brian Hopcraft | Managing Director & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-hopcraft |
| Meg Lane | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meg-lane |
| Michael Rockhold | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-rockhold |
| Rohan Verma | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rohan-verma |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Hopcraft invest in?

Brian Hopcraft invests primarily in Analytics, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brian Hopcraft last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Hopcraft closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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