Investing Profile

Brian Rothenberg(718)

VCFounderGrowth OperatorProduct Operator
Founder & growth exec from zero through IPO. Now early-stage VC
defy.vcSan Francisco Bay Area
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51 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Pete Flint (NFX), and 48 other investors on Signal.

University of Southern California Network
101 CONNECTIONS
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business Network
33 CONNECTIONS
Yahoo! Inc. Network
16 CONNECTIONS
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$100K - $10.0M
$5.0M
13
$262M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
PuppyGraph
SeedNov 2024$5M
$5M
Safara
SeedSep 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital)
Perfect Venue
SeedApr 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Paul Madera (Meritech Capital Partners), Sam Ellis (Scout Ventures)
Novi Connect
Series BFeb 2022$40M
Series ASep 2021$10M
SeedMar 2020$2M
$52M
Co-investors: Mike Duboe (Greylock), Griffin Schroeder (Tiger Global Management), Thomas Layton (Social Capital), Zachary Kushel (Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures)
Moment House
Series AAug 2021$12M
$26M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), David Krane (GV (Google Ventures)), Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital), Kevin Mayer (Smash Capital), Scooter Braun (TQ Ventures), Steve Stoute, Troy Carter, Aaron Levie, Jared Leto
OfficeTogether
SeedNov 2020$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Ben Orthlieb (2.12 Angels)
Fourthwall
SeedSep 2020$3M
$20M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six)
Novi
SeedMar 2020$1.5M
$12M
Marketplaces, SaaS, consumer internet, and most importantly: amazing founders.
Most direct-to-consumer products, pure biotech (software okay), most hardware (unless commodity hardware using software/data).
VP of Growth & GM Eventbrite2013 - 2019
Head of Marketing TaskRabbit2011 - 2013
Co-Founder, VP Product Skillslate2009 - 2011
Product Manager Yahoo! Inc.2004 - 2008
University of Southern California B.S. Business Entrepreneurship & Marketing
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business MBA Finance & General Management