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Brian Shin

Venture Capital and Product Strategy focused on the responsible advancement of AI. Managing Partner, VitalStage Ventures AI-Native Fund

San Francisco, California

Investor
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Angel

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Skills

Startups
Founder
AI Strategy
AI Infrastructure
Product Market Fit
Capital Raising
Responsible AI
AI Governance
AI Policy
Product Strategy
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Analytics
SaaS
Mobile Devices
Online Advertising
Product Management
Digital Media
E-commerce

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

Patented.ai

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $9M

Infringements

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Invalidate

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Digits

Series A

Total Funding: $110M

DivvyCloud

Private Equity

Total Funding: $26M

Atrium LTS

Series A

Total Funding: $76M

Tettra

Seed

Total Funding: $1.3M

Bedrock Data

Series A

Total Funding: $3M

Shareaholic

Angel

Total Funding: $7.4M

Lookery

Seed

Total Funding: $2.9M

Work Experience

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Groq

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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ego (YC W24)

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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VitalStage Ventures

2023

  • Managing Partner

    2023

    VitalStage Ventures is an AI-Native seed fund that supports entrepreneurs building the data and AI infrastructure necessary to create transformative industry impact in the most responsible way possible. We have invested in over 50 innovative technology companies and we truly believe that AI can be a force for positive change. We are driven to support founders because we sincerely think that entrepreneurs are the heroes of the business world. Some of our companies include: HubSpot (IPO), Drift (acquired by Vista), Kayak (IPO), Not Diamond, Monitaur, Cargo, NRG eSports, Lovepop, Pipefy, Collaborate (acq. Cisco), Mapkin (acq. AOL), Beamable, Wonderment, Telescoped, Tablelist, Shareaholic, Pagecloud, Neurable, Impact Biosystems, Notion, Influitive, Neural Galaxy, Vesper Mems (acquired by Qualcomm), Frequency Therapeutics (IPO), Sirtris Pharma (IPO), Lola.com (acquired by CapitalOne), Misfit (acq. FOSL), and many others.

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Deepnight (YC W24)

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Octolane AI (YC W24)

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Toma (YC W24)

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Duckie (YC W24)

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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TensorFuse (YC W24)

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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CodeAnt AI (YC W24)

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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Not Diamond

2024

  • Investor

    2024

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