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Brad Gessler

Dad. Hacker. Founder. Investor.

San Francisco, California

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Data Conversion
Financial Metrics
Director level
Business Strategy
Ruby
Dolls
SEO
Fly Fishing
Management Consulting
Romantic
Mobile Applications
Badboy
Analytics
Start-ups
Web Development
Ruby on Rails
Facelift
German
User Experience
Drinking

Education

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Based in SF

3078 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

Investments

Replicated

Seed

Total Funding: $82M

Zenefits

Seed

Total Funding: $580M

Career planet Infotech

Series C

Total Funding: $2M

Work Experience

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Rocketship, LLC

2022

  • Owner

    2022

PE
Poll Everywhere

2008

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Co-founder & CTO

    2008 - 2022

    Poll Everywhere makes presentations interactive for over half the Fortune 1000 and hundreds of thousands of educators. Over 30 million people have voted on a Poll Everywhere poll with their mobile phones via SMS and the Web. Poll Everywhere is seed funded by Y Combinator.

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Fly.io

2022 - 2024

  • Developer Relations

    2022 - 2024

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Publicis

2007 - 2008

  • Solutions Architect

    2007 - 2008

    Project manager for marketing automation & workflow software. Introduced Rails and Agile processes into organization.

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Deloitte Consulting

2004 - 2007

  • Consultant

    2004 - 2007

    Lead various IT projects within the healthcare, telecommunications, and public sector industries.

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