Investing Profile

Brian Rothenberg(351)

VCFounderGrowth OperatorProduct Operator

Founder & growth exec from zero through IPO. Now early-stage VC

defy.vc/our-team/San Francisco Bay Area

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Brian Rothenberg's investing connections

33 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Pete Flint (NFX), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), and 30 other investors on Signal.

Networks Brian is a member of

University of Southern California Network

60 CONNECTIONS

New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business Network

23 CONNECTIONS

Yahoo! Inc. Network

14 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Defy Partners Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$5.0M

Investments On Record

8

Current Fund Size

$262M

Brian Rothenberg is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Angel, Scout, and Solo-Capitalists Consumer Health (Series A)Enterprise (Series A)Local Services (Series A)Marketplaces (Series A)Parenting/Families (Series A)Real Estate/PropTech (Series A)SaaS (Series A)San Francisco Bay Area SMB Software (Series A)Social Networks (Series A)Investors who invested in diverse founders Investors who invested in female founders Investors who were founders

Brian Rothenberg's Investments On Record (8)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
OfficeTogether	SeedNov 2020$2M	$2M
Fourthwall	SeedSep 2020$3M	$3M
Novi	SeedMar 2020$1.5M	$1.5M
PocketSuite	SeedDec 2019$1.2M	$1.2M
Aalto	Series AOct 2019$10M	$10M
Snapwire	Series AOct 2019$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Allen Morgan (Idealab), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Safa Rashtchy (Think + Ventures), Brian Lee (Bam Ventures)
Attentive	Seed RoundFeb 2019€1M	$393M €1M
Co-investors: Pat Grady (Sequoia Capital), Stephan Morais (Indico Capital Partners), Kevin Weatherman (KW Angel Fund), Scott Friend (Bain Capital Ventures), David Beisel (NextView Ventures), Zak Schwarzman (MetaProp Ventures), Kristian Andersen
Wonderschool	Seed RoundJan 2017	$22M
Co-investors: Jeff Jordan (Andreessen Horowitz), Stephanie Palmeri (Uncork Capital), Jonathan Golden (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Marlon Nichols (MaC Venture Capital), Lee Jacobs (Long Journey Ventures), Jonathan Chizick (Capital Factory), Emil Lee, Lee Jacobs, Varsha Rao

Brian Rothenberg's Media (8)

Session with Brian Rothenberg - Quora

www.quora.com

From Zero to IPO: How Growth Needs to Evolve at Every Startup Stage

firstround.com

Brian Rothenberg - How To Build & Scale a Marketplace from $0 to Billions

www.youtube.com

Brian Rothenberg at the Marketplace Conference: Driving growth via buyer/seller overlap.

www.sharetribe.com

Transitioning SaaS Companies to Marketplaces - Brian Rothenberg, Eventbrite

www.youtube.com

Eventbrite's Brian Rothenberg on growing a marketplace

www.intercom.com

Paving The Way To Marketplace Liquidity

news.greylock.com

Answers To Your Tough Questions About Growth — Learned While Scaling Eventbrite’s $5B+ Growth Engine

firstround.com

most interested in

Marketplaces, SaaS, consumer internet, and most importantly: amazing founders.

not interested in

Most direct-to-consumer products, pure biotech (software okay), most hardware (unless commodity hardware using software/data).

Brian Rothenberg's Experience

VP of Growth & GM Eventbrite2013 - 2019

Head of Marketing TaskRabbit2011 - 2013

Co-Founder, VP Product Skillslate2009 - 2011

Product Manager Yahoo! Inc.2004 - 2008

Brian Rothenberg's Education

University of Southern California B.S. Business Entrepreneurship & Marketing

New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business MBA Finance & General Management

Investors who invest with Brian Rothenberg

Madison McIIwain

Indico Capital Partners