Investing Profile

Brian Flynn(229)

AngelFounderInvestor
Co-Founder, FounderPartners. Serial entrepreneur (5 exits) and investor (13 exits).
founderpartners.coSan Mateo, California
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9 Investors

Connected to Satya Patel (Homebrew), Dave McClure (Practical Venture Capital), Arjun Arora (Expa), and 6 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
FounderPartners Managing Partner
Investment Range
$50K - $1M
Sweet Spot
$250K
Investments On Record
2

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Brian Flynn's Investments On Record (2)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
3Box
Series AFeb 2022$30M
$33M
Co-investors: Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures), Mason Nystrom (Variant (variant.fund)), Florian Hagenbuch (Canary Ventures), David Pakman (CoinFund), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Alessio Fanelli (Decibel Partners), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Wendy Xiao (Northzone), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Stefan George, Tegan Kline, Dan Romero
Chairish
Series AAug 2014$5M
$46M
Co-investors: Spencer Rascoff (75 & Sunny), Ho Nam (Altos Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capitail)), Erik Blachford, Bob Pasker, Karl Peterson, Julia Hartz

most interested in

Software, Internet, mobile, API services

not interested in

Hardware, biotech, capital-intensive businesses.

Brian Flynn's Experience

Co-Founder FounderPartners2013 - Present
Founder Esplanade Partners LLC2002 - Present
Co-Founder BrainTrust2018 - 2018
Co-Founder Relevad Corporation2005 - 2017
Co-Founder AdMovate, Inc. (acquired by Yahoo!)2012 - 2013
Head of Corporate Development Macromedia, Inc. (acquired by Adobe Systems)2003 - 2005
Co-Founder IMsecure (acquired by Checkpoint Software)2002 - 2003
Partner Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB)1999 - 2002
Principal, Head of Software and Internet M&A Robertson Stephens & Co.1995 - 1999
Financial Analyst, M&A Morgan Stanley & Co.1990 - 1993

Brian Flynn's Education

Harvard Business School MBA