Investing Profile

Brian Rothenberg(823)

VCFounderGrowth OperatorProduct Operator

Partner at Defy.vc

defy.vcSan Francisco Bay Area

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Brian Rothenberg's investing connections

Connected to 63 investors on Signal.

Networks Brian is a member of

NewCo Network

1601 CONNECTIONS

Top-Patents Network

1032 CONNECTIONS

University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network

837 CONNECTIONS

BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P. Network

515 CONNECTIONS

Calling Brands Network

353 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Defy.vc Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$5.0M

Investments On Record

Brian Rothenberg's Investments On Record (11)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Safara	Series UnknownDec 2024$7M SeedSep 2022$4M	$11M
Co-investors: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital)
PuppyGraph	SeedNov 2024$5M	$5M
Perfect Venue	SeedApr 2022$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Paul Madera (Meritech Capital Partners), Sam Ellis (WPMC)
Novi Connect	Series BFeb 2022$40M Series ASep 2021$10M SeedMar 2020$2M	$52M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Griffin Schroeder (Tiger Global Management), Zachary Kushel (Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures), Julia Hartz (UCSF Foundation Investment Company), Mike Duboe (Greylock Partners), Thomas Layton (ezhome)
Moment House	Series AAug 2021$12M	$26M
Co-investors: Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), David Krane (GV (Google Ventures)), Kevin Mayer (Smash Capital), Scooter Braun (TQ Ventures), Troy Carter (Earthshot Ventures), Aaron Levie, Jared Leto, Steve Stoute
OfficeTogether	SeedNov 2020$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Ben Orthlieb (Blue Moon)
Fourthwall	SeedSep 2020$3M	$20M
Co-investors: Alex Taussig (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Alexis Ohanian (Curated)
Novi	SeedMar 2020$1.5M	$12M
Co-investors: Frank Taylor (Virginia Venture Partners)

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

www.sharetribe.com

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

www.youtube.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

Angel Investor & Advisor EventTicketsNow.comPresent

Founder & CEO Still Water DesignPresent

Founder & CEO Calling BrandsPresent

Founder & CEO BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Product Manager YahooPresent

Founder & CEO .Present

Founder & CEO Xtripe AngelsPresent

Partner defy.vcPresent

Founder & CEO University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Partner Defy.vcPresent

Founder & CEO Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

Angel Investor & Advisor Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

Expert Network Advisor & Angel Track First Round CapitalPresent

Founder & CEO NewCoPresent

Angel Investor & Advisor The Grameen Creative LabPresent

Founder & CEO Top-PatentsPresent

Product Manager Yahoo!Present

Venture Capital MBA Intern Canaan PartnersPresent

Founder & CEO EventTicketsNow.comPresent

Venture Capital MBA Intern CanaanPresent

Co-Founder SkillslatePresent

Co-Head of Marketing TaskRabbitPresent

Angel Investor & Advisor FreelancePresent

Growth Advisory Council Y CombinatorPresent

Scout Sequoia CapitalPresent

Product Manager yahooPresent

VP of Growth & GM Eventbrite2012 - 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 Administration, Entrepreneurship & Marketing Entrepreneurship & Marketing

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

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

NYU Stern School of Business MBA Finance, General Management

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

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

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