Brandon Simmons

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.

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.

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.

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.

Board Member

2020 - 2022

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

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.

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.

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.

Attorney

2010 - 2015