Bobby Brannigan

Founder & CEO @ Mercato | Entrepreneur | Advisor & Investor

📍 San Diego, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 31 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
31
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16
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6
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6
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Jan 2021
Season Health is the leading food-as-medicine platform that enables people with chronic conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease to eat well and live well. Combining clinical nutrition care, meal recommendations, education, and food delivery into one comprehensive solution, Season aims to help more people see food as a healthy pleasure and create a world well fed.
Investor
Dec 2020
Tuned is an all-in-one operating system for digital asset trading. We offer streamlined infrastructure to traders that address the complexities of the market including strategy design, performance testing, institutional-grade execution, and strategy licensing. Quantitative traders looking to develop new income streams use Tuned to license their strategies to other traders. Traders can design strategies leveraging hundreds of built-in indicators, run thousands of permutations of their strategy to optimize performance and automate trading on leading exchanges with millisecond response time, with no trading fees. Tuned powers traders in more than 95 countries; has facilitated more than $5 billion in lifetime volume, and is integrated with trusted exchanges such as: Coinbase, FTX, ByBit, Binance, Kraken, and Bitmex. Learn more at www.tuned.com
Board Member
Jun 2020
Rocket Fuel Labs is a San Diego based venture studio that provides early-stage technology companies with the resources necessary to find product-market fit and reach escape velocity.
Investor
Mar 2020
APERIO is the leader in industrial data quality solutions. We help customers drive profitability and sustainability goals while mitigating risk in their industrial operations. Powered by AI machine learning, APERIO automatically validates operational data at scale to improve data accuracy, security, and value, allowing for better, smarter business decisions based on real-time, trusted, superior data.
Investor
Oct 2019
JobGet is the Social Job Network for the Everyday Worker. We’re the fastest-growing app for job seekers in the service industries, supporting restaurants, food service, retail, customer support, hospitality, healthcare, warehouse, trucking, and more! We use skill-based matching to expand your candidate pool by 8x, connecting you with high-intent, qualified candidates you won’t find on traditional job sites. JobGet grows out of a basic desire to help people who want to work easily find work. Finding the right job quickly, local to where you live, is hard. JobGet simplifies the job-seeking process, enabling better connections for job seekers and employers. When an employer posts a job, the chances of reaching the right candidate are small. JobGet learns about its job seekers, enabling better connections faster, to connect every worker to an opportunity that is right for them.
Investor
Jun 2019
Monument is an online platform for anyone looking to change their relationship with alcohol. It partners with employers to offer virtual alcohol treatment, including community-based peer support, therapy and physician care (MAT). Monument charges no PEPM fees, and is in network with United, Cigna, Aetna, Anthem and most major commercial insurers.
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Mar 2019
Upshift is a leading W2 staffing platform that connects businesses with W2 employees in real-time for both short-term shifts and Upshift to Hire positions. Upshift’s next-generation platform gives workers the freedom to find work when they want it and businesses to find help when they need it. Upshifts platform results in a net success rate of over 95% vs the temp staffing industry standard of around 40%. Upshift is backed by Recruit Holdings Inc. (Parent company of Indeed.com and Glassdoor.com). If you are interested in working for Upshift please apply directly on our website as we do not post jobs on LinkedIn.
Investor
Jan 2019
The first free and open platform for influencers to build show of their work and find collaborations with brands, agencies, managers, and other professionals in the influence industry.
Investor
Jan 2019
Luxury Garage Sale ("LGS"​) is an upscale consignment brand headquartered in Chicago. We offer a curated, high-fashion product assortment in our consignment boutiques, online and through our personal stylists. Named as one of Luckys favorite boutiques in the country, Luxury Garage Sale has been featured in Refinery29, Marie Claire, Elle, Daily Candy, Crains Chicago Business, Chicago Magazine, Racked, NBC, FOX and more. We are looking for rock star self-starters who are engaging, quick on their feet, and have strong business acumen. We need brains and passion to grow LGS and to make it happen in style. This is an opportunity to work with a small, collaborative team at a quickly growing company! Learn more at www.luxurygaragesale.com.
Investor
Dec 2018
One in four organizations suffered from a cyber attack in the last year, resulting in production, reputation and financial losses. The real problem is adversaries attack companies via third parties, island-hopping their way into target organizations. At Black Kite, were redefining vendor risk management with the world’s first global third-party cyber risk monitoring platform, built from a hackers perspective. With 500+ customers across the globe and counting, were committed to improving the health and safety of the entire planets cyber ecosystem with the industry’s most accurate and comprehensive cyber intelligence. While other security ratings service (SRS) providers try to narrow the scope, Black Kite provides the only standards-based cyber risk assessments that analyze your supply chains cybersecurity posture from three critical dimensions: technical, financial, and compliance.
Investor
Dec 2018
Returnalyze is the retail industry’s leading AI-driven returns analytics software company, empowering brands to reduce return rates, lower operational costs, uncover hidden revenue opportunities and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. Returnalyze is on a mission to leverage returns analytics AI to help retailers turn returns into revenue today.
Investor
Dec 2018
Deckard Technologies provides city and county governments the analytics and insights they need to ensure tax fairness and equity in their jurisdictions by recovering mandated property and transient occupancy taxes. Using AI and a massive data collection, the Deckard platform performs analysis of hundreds-of-millions of images and data points, giving local governments greater visibility into the commercialization of residential neighborhoods. Deckard’s partnership with local communities saves them time and money, increases productivity, and enables them to make informed policy decisions while determining their own thresholds for the sharing economy. The recovered taxes support the common good, including essential services like schools, infrastructure, fire departments, and safety, in the local communities.
Investor
Aug 2018
Its simple, we believe life is more fun when youre in on the action. For that reason, we’re committed to responsibly creating the world’s favorite games and betting experiences. At DraftKings, The Crown Is Yours. We are driven by the thrill of the future and the pull of possibility. As an original, continuous gamechanger, we’re shaping the present and future of sports entertainment and digital experiences, leading the way into new markets with new products, and providing the ultimate experience to our customers. Here, we believe in the power and impact that comes from innovation, collaboration, and a winning culture. We’re a strong and dedicated global team of 4,000+ teammates driven to achieve great things. From your very first day, you’ll be part of an amazing culture that welcomes your ideas, champions your growth, and values you for you. Ready to own what’s next?
Investor
Jul 2018
Reblaze is the leading provider of cloud native web application and API protection (WAAP) in a fully managed security platform. Reblaze’s all-in-one solution includes next-gen WAF, DDoS protection, Bot Management, API security, ATO (Account Takeover) prevention, advanced rate limiting, biometric and behavioral threat detection, top-tier cloud integration, SIEM/SOC integration, Machine Learning, and more. The platform provides protection for all modern architectures: any combination of private/public cloud, single- and multi-cloud, hybrid, on-prem, containers, service meshes, and serverless. Reblaze provides full WAAP, visibility, and real-time control, all in a single pane of glass. Reblaze customers include Fortune 500 companies and innovative organizations across the globe.
Investor
Mar 2018
DreamCloud has rebranded to Resident. Please make sure to follow our new LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/residenthome
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2021
Investor
Jan 2021
Season Health is the leading food-as-medicine platform that enables people with chronic conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease to eat well and live well. Combining clinical nutrition care, meal recommendations, education, and food delivery into one comprehensive solution, Season aims to help more people see food as a healthy pleasure and create a world well fed.
2020
Investor
Dec 2020
Tuned is an all-in-one operating system for digital asset trading. We offer streamlined infrastructure to traders that address the complexities of the market including strategy design, performance testing, institutional-grade execution, and strategy licensing. Quantitative traders looking to develop new income streams use Tuned to license their strategies to other traders. Traders can design strategies leveraging hundreds of built-in indicators, run thousands of permutations of their strategy to optimize performance and automate trading on leading exchanges with millisecond response time, with no trading fees. Tuned powers traders in more than 95 countries; has facilitated more than $5 billion in lifetime volume, and is integrated with trusted exchanges such as: Coinbase, FTX, ByBit, Binance, Kraken, and Bitmex. Learn more at www.tuned.com
Board Member
Jun 2020
Rocket Fuel Labs is a San Diego based venture studio that provides early-stage technology companies with the resources necessary to find product-market fit and reach escape velocity.
Investor
Mar 2020
APERIO is the leader in industrial data quality solutions. We help customers drive profitability and sustainability goals while mitigating risk in their industrial operations. Powered by AI machine learning, APERIO automatically validates operational data at scale to improve data accuracy, security, and value, allowing for better, smarter business decisions based on real-time, trusted, superior data.
2019
Investor
Oct 2019
JobGet is the Social Job Network for the Everyday Worker. We’re the fastest-growing app for job seekers in the service industries, supporting restaurants, food service, retail, customer support, hospitality, healthcare, warehouse, trucking, and more! We use skill-based matching to expand your candidate pool by 8x, connecting you with high-intent, qualified candidates you won’t find on traditional job sites. JobGet grows out of a basic desire to help people who want to work easily find work. Finding the right job quickly, local to where you live, is hard. JobGet simplifies the job-seeking process, enabling better connections for job seekers and employers. When an employer posts a job, the chances of reaching the right candidate are small. JobGet learns about its job seekers, enabling better connections faster, to connect every worker to an opportunity that is right for them.
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