Adrian Grenier

Co-Founder DuContra Ventures and Earth Speed Media

📍 Brooklyn, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2021
Operator-angel🌍 United States
7
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Board Member
May 2021
With Seeds, advisors can better assess investors, automate personalized portfolios, and present engaging insights–all in one digital solution.
Investor & Advisor
Jul 2020
Public is the investing platform built for those who take it seriously—with technology that makes building a multi-asset portfolio, fast, frictionless, and secure. Members can invest in stocks, options, bonds, crypto, and contribute to retirement accounts—in the same place. Alongside the robust suite of investing tools, Public offers Alpha, a proprietary AI layer, that provides fundamental data and custom analysis to support informed investment decisions. Since 2019, Public has raised over $300 million. Investors include Accel, Tiger Global, Will Smiths Dreamers VC, The Chainsmokers Mantis VC, and Shari Redstones Advancit Capital, as well as renowned figures in business and culture, like Maria Sharapova, Tony Hawk, and NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway. Member questions: support@public.com Disclosures: http://public.com/disclosures
Investor
Jan 2020
Generational shifts, Pricing competition, Shrinking margins, Regulatory uncertainty. All of these factors and more are driving the way financial advisors do business. So we built a whole new engine. Vise AI is a startup dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence in the world of finance. Our core team is a preeminent group from around the world, including established finance professionals and recognized researchers and engineers in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Our team has developed proprietary cutting-edge genetic algorithms, and applied them to complex financial models. The AI uses these models to determine expected returns & variance/risk, and builds out a risk-adjusted stock portfolio for a client using clusters, or "mini-ETFs"​ to ensure proper allocation. Where a financial institution needs a team of financial analysts to track each security, Vise is able to analyze hundreds of articles, analyst reports, and SEC filings within seconds. Vise AI tracks and analyzes over a thousand individual stocks traded on the US stock exchanges, all in real time. And after years of research and application, we are now able to offer this powerful artificial intelligence research platform to the independent financial advisory firm.
Investor
Jan 2020
Vise is a technology-powered asset manager that helps financial advisors build, manage, and explain personalized portfolios at scale. Vise’s mission is to enable financial advisors to deliver better investment outcomes to their clients while scaling to their maximum potential. The company is leading the industry-wide shift toward Wealth 3.0—the next step beyond mutual funds, ETFs, and index funds into personalized, automated portfolios. Backed by investors like Sequoia, and Founders Fund, Vise has raised nearly $130 million since its founding in 2016. The company has over 45 employees based across the U.S. with headquarters in New York.
Advisor & Investor
Nov 2019
GoodFor is a new design-led retail grocery concept that allows consumers the option to bring in their own packaging and refill all their pantry items and household products without having to buy single-use packaged goods every time they shop. We know that the majority of consumers want to shop more sustainably but the market is not set up to satisfy that desire. This style of shopping makes it easy for consumers to shop sustainably without adding any extra effort, and by making your weekly grocery shop an experience, not a chore.
early stageRetail
Investor
Nov 2019
The app for audio erotica.
early stageOnline Media
Advisor & Investor
Oct 2019
Blueland is revolutionizing conventional cleaning and personal care products to eliminate the need for single-use plastic packaging, with our reusable, refillable products. We believe that we should be able to have a clean home without sacrificing a clean planet and that sustainable choices can be convenient, effective and affordable. We are a science-driven company with a pipeline of proprietary products that started with our cleaning sprays and hand soap. To date, we’ve already helped divert more than 1 billion single-use plastic bottles from landfills and waterways. We were the 2nd fastest growing direct-to-consumer in 2020, and have over 350K Instagram followers. We’re proud to be B Corporation Certified, recognized for meeting the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Blueland was featured on the Season 11 premiere of Shark Tank, securing an investment by Kevin O’Leary. Blueland is well-funded by top tier venture capital firms as well as notable investors including Gwyneth Paltrow, Justin Timberlake and founders of Sweetgreen, Thrive Market, Honest Company, Rent the Runway, and Bonobos. We’ve been featured across top tier outlets such as the New York Times, Fast Company, TechCrunch, VOGUE, Wall Street Journal, Inc., and more.
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (5)
Board (1)
2022
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Nov 2022
Earth Speed Media: a nature-based lifestyle company that celebrates the power of community and self-reliance.
early stageMedia Production
2021
Board Member
May 2021
With Seeds, advisors can better assess investors, automate personalized portfolios, and present engaging insights–all in one digital solution.
2020
Investor & Advisor
Jul 2020
Public is the investing platform built for those who take it seriously—with technology that makes building a multi-asset portfolio, fast, frictionless, and secure. Members can invest in stocks, options, bonds, crypto, and contribute to retirement accounts—in the same place. Alongside the robust suite of investing tools, Public offers Alpha, a proprietary AI layer, that provides fundamental data and custom analysis to support informed investment decisions. Since 2019, Public has raised over $300 million. Investors include Accel, Tiger Global, Will Smiths Dreamers VC, The Chainsmokers Mantis VC, and Shari Redstones Advancit Capital, as well as renowned figures in business and culture, like Maria Sharapova, Tony Hawk, and NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway. Member questions: support@public.com Disclosures: http://public.com/disclosures
Investor
Jan 2020
Generational shifts, Pricing competition, Shrinking margins, Regulatory uncertainty. All of these factors and more are driving the way financial advisors do business. So we built a whole new engine. Vise AI is a startup dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence in the world of finance. Our core team is a preeminent group from around the world, including established finance professionals and recognized researchers and engineers in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Our team has developed proprietary cutting-edge genetic algorithms, and applied them to complex financial models. The AI uses these models to determine expected returns & variance/risk, and builds out a risk-adjusted stock portfolio for a client using clusters, or "mini-ETFs"​ to ensure proper allocation. Where a financial institution needs a team of financial analysts to track each security, Vise is able to analyze hundreds of articles, analyst reports, and SEC filings within seconds. Vise AI tracks and analyzes over a thousand individual stocks traded on the US stock exchanges, all in real time. And after years of research and application, we are now able to offer this powerful artificial intelligence research platform to the independent financial advisory firm.
Investor
Jan 2020
Vise is a technology-powered asset manager that helps financial advisors build, manage, and explain personalized portfolios at scale. Vise’s mission is to enable financial advisors to deliver better investment outcomes to their clients while scaling to their maximum potential. The company is leading the industry-wide shift toward Wealth 3.0—the next step beyond mutual funds, ETFs, and index funds into personalized, automated portfolios. Backed by investors like Sequoia, and Founders Fund, Vise has raised nearly $130 million since its founding in 2016. The company has over 45 employees based across the U.S. with headquarters in New York.
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