Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
- TU
- TU
Lists including Brian
Investments
Work Experience
2019
Senior Vice President Of Engineering
2021
Leading the Platform engineerings groups at Niantic including Campfire, Game Platform, AR, Research, and Mapping groups. Building a team in Lawrence, Kansas and hiring in Bay Area, Seattle, London, and Lawrence!
Advisor
2019 - 2021
2021
Venture Partner
2021
UP.Partners is a firm that invests in the pioneering entrepreneurs who are creating the key enabling technologies that help move people and goods cleaner, faster, safer, and more efficiently in a multi-dimensional world.
2016
Adjunct Professor
2020
Taught Startup School 2020 & 2022 @ University of Kansas
2020 - 2022
An intensive 6 week program introducing and enforcing the challenges of creating a high-growth technology-based startup.
Research Professor
2017 - 2020
Adjunct Professor
2016 - 2017
2017
Founder, Board Member
2017
ksvotes.org is a modern voter-registration website that allows Kansas voters to register or request advanced ballots entirely using their mobile phone.
Technology/Business Advisor
1997
Current: BlueSpace.ai, Blackshark.ai, Array Labs, StoryTell, SwayDM, MythosAI, C2FO Recent: ClearPath Robotics, Just Play Sports, RideOS, Unfolded, Draiver, AstrumU Historical examples: Gigapixel, Epinions, Control4, Noom
2021
Board Member
2021
2021
Board Member
2021
1997
Angel Investor
1997
We invest seed/A in technology startups, 50+ so far.
Technology Advisory Council
2016
2020 - 2021
Board Member
2020 - 2021
The Beacon is a non-profit investigative journalism platform reporting on Kansas and Missouri issues.