# Brian Pokorny

> Brian Pokorny is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Software, Apps and Mobile. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brpokorny
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/brianp
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/brianpokorny

Brian Pokorny is a General Partner of SV Angel. Prior to this, he was at Airbnb, where he joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/Batch. DailyBooth was a venture backed social media start-up that Brian led for 3 years as their CEO. Before this, Brian was a partner at SV Angel with David Lee and Ron Conway upon the launch of the firm. Prior toSV Angel he was a founding team member and partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment firm. Before joining Baseline, Brian spent close to 4 years at Google within various positions in the Content Partnerships team and Direct Sales Organization. Before this, he had various roles within sales operations and finance at Juniper Networks, TIBCO Software, and Applied Materials. Brian graduated with a degree in Operations and Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University. Brian's first angel investment was in Twitter and he is also a personal angel investor in Square, OMGPOP (Acquired by Zynga), Tweetdeck (Acquired by Twitter), Milo (Acquired by eBay), Chomp (Acquired by Apple) and others. Brian has advisory positions with Ooyala (Acquired by Telstra), Rupture (Acquired by EA). At SV Angel, Brian has also originated investments in companies such as Instacart, Patreon, Mesosphere, Credit Karma, and foursquare.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $550k–$4M |
| Angel | $1M–$3M |
| Series A | $2M–$39M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 23% |
| Apps | 8 | 20% |
| Mobile | 6 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 13% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 48% |
| Series A | 8 | 20% |
| Angel | 4 | 10% |
| Series B | 4 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 78% |
| France | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deep Infra | DeepInfra is an AI inference cloud platform that enables developers and organizations to run machine learning models at scale through a unified API. The platform supports a wide range of capabilities, including large language models, vision processing, embeddings, image and video generation, and speech applications, allowing users to integratemultiple AI functions into their systems. It provides an OpenAI-compatible interface, which allows existing applications to switch endpoints with minimal code changes while accessing a large catalog of open-source models. DeepInfra manages the underlying infrastructure, including GPU resources and scaling, so users can deploy and operate AI workloads without handling complex system setup. The service is designed to facilitate production-level AI deployment by offering automated scaling, model hosting, and tools for integrating and running inference workloads efficiently. | $18M | Series A | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Float Health | Float Health is a mobile application that allows consumers to send a nurse to their house when a family member is ill. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $10M | Series A | Mar 28, 2024 |  |
| Matic | Matic is a technology startup that provides AI-powered indoor robots. | $5.6M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Plenty | Plenty is a fintech company that offers a wealth-building platform, investments, financial products, and loans. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | May 23, 2023 |  |
| Consensus | The consensus is to enable discovery and consumption of the world's expert knowledge. No matter your background, finding scientific research has always been a difficult procedure. Consensus think AI has the potential to transform this equation if applied intelligently, deftly, and tastefully. | $3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2023 |  |
| Blossom.team | Blossom makes coaching more accessible than ever before. Find the perfect coach based on your profile and goals, and track your progress along the way with a science-backed app. Start your growth journey with confidence and Blossom into your best self today! | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 26, 2022 |  |
| Studio | Studio is giving everyone their own private reality shows—through our group camcorder app. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 29, 2022 |  |
| Studio | Studio is giving everyone their own private reality shows—through our group camcorder app. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 29, 2022 |  |
| Faire | Faire is a two-sided marketplace and wholesale platform that helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores while helping brands and makers reach local retailers. Faire offers business owners a toolkit of simple tech, data insights, financial terms, and logistics solutions to support the future of local retail.Faire's net 60 payment terms and free returns take the risk out of the wholesale business so that local retailers and independent brands can compete with big-box and ecommcerce giants. Faire is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | $596.2M | Series G | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Faire | Faire is a two-sided marketplace and wholesale platform that helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores while helping brands and makers reach local retailers. Faire offers business owners a toolkit of simple tech, data insights, financial terms, and logistics solutions to support the future of local retail.Faire's net 60 payment terms and free returns take the risk out of the wholesale business so that local retailers and independent brands can compete with big-box and ecommerce giants.Faire is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. | $596.2M | Series G | Nov 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Pokorny invest in?

Brian Pokorny invests primarily in Software, Apps and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 40 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 Brian Pokorny's check size?

Brian Pokorny typically joins rounds of $550k–$4M at Seed, $1M–$3M at Angel and $2M–$39M 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 Brian Pokorny participates in.

### When did Brian Pokorny last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Pokorny closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 40 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?

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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