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Brandon Simmons

CEO | 23rd Chairman of Texas Southern University's Board of Regents | Corporate & Nonprofit Board Member | Education & Economic Opportunity Leader

Houston, Texas

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Legal Research
Corporate Governance
Legal Writing
Public Policy
Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate Law
Private Equity
Policy Analysis
Government
Strategy
Venture Capital
Due Diligence
International Law
Politics
Early-stage Startups
Research
International Commercial Law
Oil and Gas

Work Experience

2022

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2022

    We use cutting-edge production methods and story-based teaching to create high-value, high-impact education, training, and marketing content. We also provide advisory services to select clients, leveraging our experience as investors, board members, and operators.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Venus Aerospace is a growth-stage company pushing the boundaries of hypersonic technology.

2021 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2023

    Space Perspective is the world's first and only carbon-neutral spaceflight experience company on a mission to make transformative space travel accessible to more people than ever before. Its Spaceship Neptune, which comprises a pressurized capsule propelled by a giant SpaceBalloon™, offers a safe and accessible six-hour journey to the edge of space.

2021 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2022

    CarbonCapture develops and deploys direct air capture (DAC) machines that can be connected in large arrays to remove massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With a groundbreaking modular open systems architecture, the company’s technology platform allows for plug-and-play sorbent upgrades, mass production, and unlimited scalability. CarbonCapture’s systems capture atmospheric carbon dioxide for either permanent removal or for utilization in low-carbon synthetic fuels, concrete, and other industrial products.

2021 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2022

    Elevian is an emerging biotech company developing medicines that restore youthful regenerative capacity, with the potential to treat and prevent multiple age-related diseases. Elevian's scientific founders, working at the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, discovered that treatment with the circulating factor GDF11 can regenerate the heart, brain, muscle and other tissues. Elevian has acquired exclusive, worldwide rights to Harvard's patent portfolio concerning GDF11. The company is developing new medicines that target the GDF11 pathway. Elevian's lead drug candidate (recombinant human GDF11) has demonstrated efficacy in preclinical models of stroke, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart failure, Alzheimer's disease, and many other age-related diseases.

2020 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2022

    NobleAI enables companies to accelerate the development of better performing, more environmentally sustainable and reliably sourced chemical & material products.

2020 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2022

    Pyka is defining the future of safe, environmentally-friendly, and cost-effective aviation with highly-automated electric airplanes for crop protection and other commercial applications, including cargo transport. Pyka's proprietary technology includes highly-automated flight control software, flight computers, high energy density batteries, advanced electric propulsion systems, and carbon composite airframes.

2019 - 2022

  • General Partner

    2019 - 2022

    General Partner (2020-2022), Venture Partner (2019). Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.

2015 - 2020

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2015 - 2020

    CEO (2020), COO (2018-2020), GC (2015-2018). Tachyus helps operators in the oil and gas industry to optimize their operations and reduce carbon emissions. Our proprietary models combine data, machine learning and physics to build very reliable models that are orders or magnitude faster than traditional physics based models. These models can be used to continuously optimize reservoir management decisions and perform what-if analysis in minutes to understand the impact of different operational decisions. ​ Aurion, our GHG emissions management platform, enables oil and gas and other industries to account, monitor, forecast and report GHG emissions to regulatory agencies. Aurion integrates with any data source to fully streamline the GHG emissions management process, enabling companies large and small to monitor GHG emissions on a daily basis, and understand the impact of future operational decisions on GHG emissions to help with their Net-Zero goals.

2010 - 2015

  • Attorney

    2010 - 2015