Brian Wilcove
General Partner @ America’s Frontier Fund
San Francisco, United States
Brian Wilcove is a seed investor at America’s Frontier Fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Brian Wilcove is the General Partner of Artiman Ventures and America’s Frontier Fund.Brian has 16 years of experience investing in innovative technology companies with a long list of successes. His current investments include ApplyBoard, Boxbot, Griddable, Pavilion Data and Virsec.Some of his notable past successes include IPO’s with Calix(CALX) and Tele Atlas. His investments going onto successful M&A transactions include: ConteXtream (Hewlett Packard), Guavus (Thales), Internet Photonics (Ciena), KXEN (SAP), Loglogic (Tibco), OnFiber (Qwest) and Tele Atlas (TomTom). Each case was an opportunity where the entrepreneur was imaginative, persistent and trustworthy, the market opportunity was clear and the technology was highly novel. Brian continues to look for each of these traits in new investments.Brian received his undergraduate degree in History from Miami University. His early career included co-founding Virtela, which was acquired by NTT, as well as stints at ANS, America Online, Qwest Communications before joining TeleSoft Partners and then Sofinnova Ventures. He is a native of Philadelphia (and rabid Eagles fan) and he currently resides in the Bay Area with his wife and two children. His is also an extreme sports enthusiast and is passionate about scuba diving.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
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Industries Brian Wilcove invests in
Stages Brian Wilcove invests in
Countries Brian Wilcove invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (31%)
- Information Technology 3 (23%)
- SaaS 1 (8%)
- Medical 1 (8%)
- Big Data 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (31%)
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (54%)
- India 1 (8%)
Investments
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Revalia Bio
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Revalia Bio develops curative drugs for chronic organ-centered disease. | $14.5M / Seed / Sep 04, 2025 | |
Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
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Pavilion Data Systems is redefining storage to put real-time performance at scale within reach of all. Pavilion provides unmatched storage performance and density, without the cost and complexity of legacy all flash arrays (AFAs). Pavilion provides consistent, predictable performance across the fabric with ultra-low latency and linear scalability.Pavilion has disrupted the enterprise storage landscape with its innovative architecture and software and is pulling the industry into a new category of storage appliances: Hyperparallel Flash Arrays. Hyperparallel Flash Arrays utilize multiple controllers within a single system and leverage the parallelism of flash to go beyond the limitations of legacy, dual controller AFAs, delivering breakthrough performance and value. Pavilion is the leader of this new “Third wave” of storage with the largest deployments and most deployments because the customer need for ever-increasing data throughput continues to expand.Pavilion Data Systems brings together experienced technology professionals with expertise in storage system architecture, network switch design, dense micro-server architectures, and solid-state storage technology to deliver a ground-breaking storage system design that is purpose-built to take advantage of memory-class media available both today and in the future. | $45M / Series D / Jan 20, 2022 | |
EduRev
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EduRev is an e-learning platform that provides student the freedom to learn what they want. It is a free website where thousands of students, teachers and professors share, study and upload their notes, video lectures and books to help each other. The problem not only exists in the school, but also colleges, especially engineering colleges, wherethe last minute study counts for everything. One common place to find all such answers is www.edurev.in, a site that provides material that you need to obtain an edge in a world of cut throat competition. EduRev provides everything for free, from online videos of lectures, and ebooks in the pdf format. The unique feature of the website is it’s interaction capabilities. Students follow their teachers and friends, and create a network. The teachers can also interact with students from different institutions across the country and bond with the like-minded. | Seed / Jan 15, 2022 | |
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Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
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Pavilion Data Systems is redefining storage to put real-time performance at scale within reach of all. Pavilion provides unmatched storage performance and density, without the cost and complexity of legacy all flash arrays (AFAs). Pavilion provides consistent, predictable performance across the fabric with ultra-low latency and linear scalability.Pavilion has disrupted the enterprise storage landscape with its innovative architecture and software and is pulling the industry into a new category of storage appliances: Hyperparallel Flash Arrays. Hyperparallel Flash Arrays utilize multiple controllers within a single system and leverage the parallelism of flash to go beyond the limitations of legacy, dual controller AFAs, delivering breakthrough performance and value. Pavilion is the leader of this new “Third wave” of storage with the largest deployments and most deployments because the customer need for ever-increasing data throughput continues to expand.Pavilion Data Systems brings together experienced technology professionals with expertise in storage system architecture, network switch design, dense micro-server architectures, and solid-state storage technology to deliver a ground-breaking storage system design that is purpose-built to take advantage of memory-class media available both today and in the future. | $25M / Series C / Aug 13, 2019 | |
Boxbot
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Boxbot’s proprietary software and hardware platform transforms material handling by making ordinary conveyors three-dimensional. Headquartered in Alameda, CA, Boxbot’s modular solution can store, sort, and sequence size-agnostic, high throughput payloads while requiring a minimal physical footprint. | $7.5M / Seed / Jun 05, 2018 | |
Griddable
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Griddable.io is a San Jose, CA based SaaS startup that closed Series A funding in 2017 from August Capital, Artiman Ventures, and Carsten Thoma, founding CEO of Hybris (acquired by SAP).The griddable.io concept was conceived by Rajeev Bharadhwaj, a serial entrepreneur with a vision to create a globally synchronized enterprise. He made a keydecision to build-on vs. replace traditional databases and develop a new approach for synchronous data integration.After identifying the Databus open source project at LinkedIn as a foundational technology, he recruited Chavdar Botev, the primary architect of Databus, and Burton Hipp, who co-founded a prior startup with Rajeev. Together they created the first griddable.io product, proved the technology at design partners, and recruited Robin Purohit as CEO, a software industry veteran known to the team from VERITAS and HP. | $8M / Series A / Feb 28, 2018 | |
Runnable Inc.
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Runnable speeds up development by providing full-stack environments for every code branch. Instant access to clean, performant environments enables your developers to get feedback, test end-to-end, debug and deploy without having to wait. Runnable provides unlimited self-managed environments for any application at a low, fixed cost. | $3M / Convertible Note / Jan 05, 2017 | |
Shopswell
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Shopswell is a community of people that helps each other shop by asking and answering questions, and sharing lists, articles, and reviews of the products they love. Its members delight in sharing their taste through awesome product discoveries, curated lists, product reviews, and their own personal experiences so that everyone can shop smartertogether.Shopswell is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2015 by Mark How, Gk Parish-Philp, Jordan Greenhall, Tim Erdmann, and Sondra Drahos. | $1M / Seed / Jan 12, 2015 | |
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Runnable Inc.
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Runnable speeds up development by providing full-stack environments for every code branch. Instant access to clean, performant environments enables your developers to get feedback, test end-to-end, debug and deploy without having to wait. Runnable provides unlimited self-managed environments for any application at a low, fixed cost. | $8.4M / Series A / Jan 01, 2015 | |
ConteXtream
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ConteXtream is a privately held software company delivering the industry’s first cloud-based network virtualization framework that enables network operators to leverage the power of proven virtualization and grid technologies to extract more value and profitability from their broadband networks. The ConteXtream Service Delivery Grid delivershigher network performance at a lower cost per subscriber while enabling operators to customize applications on a per-session, per- subscriber basis for a unique, highly personalized subscriber experience. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., ConteXtream is backed by leading Silicon Valley and global investors including Benhamou Global Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, Norwest Venture Partners and Sofinnova Ventures as well as Comcast Interactive Capital and Verizon Investments. | $217K / Apr 01, 2013 | |
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About America’s Frontier Fund
America’s Frontier Fund is a non-profit, frontier-tech fund that focuses on securing the technology leadership and collective prosperity of America, its partners, and other democracies. AFF invests in early-stage companies developing frontier-tech solutions, aiming for returns. The fund focuses on securing technology leadership for America andcollective prosperity, underlining the importance of innovation in national interests.
America’s Frontier Fund Contacts
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Brian Wilcove
General Partner
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Edlyn Levine
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
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What does Brian Wilcove invest in?
Brian Wilcove invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS 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.
When did Brian Wilcove last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brian Wilcove closed in Sep 2025. 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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