Brad Young

Tech and Entertainment Entrepreneur

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
Operator-angel🌍 United States
6
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Board Member
Jul 2025
We equip our clients with Conversational Intelligence (CI): emotionally intelligent AI + integrated data, that turns every chat into revenue. CI = Integrated Intelligence × Emotional Intelligence • Integrated Intelligence — real-time inventory, brand rules, purchase history, CRM/CDP/loyalty data. • Emotional Intelligence — intent, sentiment, tone, values, mood. Together, CI personalizes discovery, builds carts, and closes sales inside DM, SMS, and webchat—capturing first-party data and piping it straight into your CRM/CDP. We’re the first platform to pair cart-in-chat with emotionally intelligent AI and a unified data layer that thinks and sells like a human across every channel. Results: 5× higher conversion, 30% bigger baskets, 98% open rates in direct channels. Who we serve: media owners, brands, agencies, and marketplaces that want provable sales, recurring commission, and richer first-party data.
Investor/Advisory Board
Jan 2021
At Book with Eva, we are fans first. When co-founders Makenzie Stokel and Channing Moreland met at college in Nashville, both were already crazy about live music. It wasn’t long before the two were organizing everything from large house parties to small festivals. The music and live event part was fun. The messy details, paperwork, and uncertainty when trying to book entertainment, not so much. Book with Eva was created to make booking the right entertainment for your event quick, easy and reliable.The Book with Eva team, along with their easy-to-use technology, are dedicated to connecting clients with high-quality entertainment and unique experiences. Book with Eva’s platform allows you to book the best entertainment for your event every time. At the heart of Book with Eva (behind the technology) is our team of industry experts that are on a mission to connect event planners to amazing entertainment. We are supportive and transparent with everything we do. We believe in inclusivity, always, and thrive to radiate that through our entertainment. We are driven to help our clients reach their event goals and create meaningful experiences that inspire.
Investor/Board Member
Jun 2019
Funded by its CEO Rod Contreras in 2008, a one man company, it has grown to over 35 employees, gathering the best talent and creative minds in Chile. Gamaga’s titles have received world-wide recognition and have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times generating very significant revenues. Banana Kong, their first mobile development, was so popular it achieved over 130 Million downloads, and it is still played until this day. Gamaga’s recent simulation game, Operate Now: Hospital, generated over 30 million downloads in its first year. Company's latest development Cobra Kai: Card Fighter has become a new world class hit. Gamaga provides work for hire development services to clients that are looking for mobile, PC and console platforms.
Co-Founder/Board Member
2018
Blackshark.ai is at the forefront of geospatial intelligence, leveraging cutting-edge AI and satellite technology for object detection, simulation, and creating a 3D digital twin of Earth, empowering industries with actionable insights. ORCA HUNTR is our revolutionary no-code environment that enables anyone to train, test and exploit AI/ML-powered object detection and classification, which can be applied to a variety of scenarios. Blackshark.ai SYNTH3D is a synthetic, realistic 3D replica of the surface of our planet with semantic information derived from 2D satellite and aerial imagery. The data gets streamed from blackshark.ai servers and is rendered into a realistic environment at runtime. It contains terrain elevation, buildings, vegetation coverage, and infrastructure. Blackshark.ai SYNTH3D includes the entire globe – every country, city, building, and detail is represented in a region–specific, geo-typical way.
Investor/Board Member
Sep 2015
Bongfish was founded in 2006 with the simple goal to craft incredible games that combine state-of-the-art technology with deep gameplay. We are headquartered in Graz, Austria with offices in Vienna and San Francisco.
late stageComputer Games
Experience · 11 entries
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2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
We equip our clients with Conversational Intelligence (CI): emotionally intelligent AI + integrated data, that turns every chat into revenue. CI = Integrated Intelligence × Emotional Intelligence • Integrated Intelligence — real-time inventory, brand rules, purchase history, CRM/CDP/loyalty data. • Emotional Intelligence — intent, sentiment, tone, values, mood. Together, CI personalizes discovery, builds carts, and closes sales inside DM, SMS, and webchat—capturing first-party data and piping it straight into your CRM/CDP. We’re the first platform to pair cart-in-chat with emotionally intelligent AI and a unified data layer that thinks and sells like a human across every channel. Results: 5× higher conversion, 30% bigger baskets, 98% open rates in direct channels. Who we serve: media owners, brands, agencies, and marketplaces that want provable sales, recurring commission, and richer first-party data.
2021
Investor/Advisory Board
Jan 2021
At Book with Eva, we are fans first. When co-founders Makenzie Stokel and Channing Moreland met at college in Nashville, both were already crazy about live music. It wasn’t long before the two were organizing everything from large house parties to small festivals. The music and live event part was fun. The messy details, paperwork, and uncertainty when trying to book entertainment, not so much. Book with Eva was created to make booking the right entertainment for your event quick, easy and reliable.The Book with Eva team, along with their easy-to-use technology, are dedicated to connecting clients with high-quality entertainment and unique experiences. Book with Eva’s platform allows you to book the best entertainment for your event every time. At the heart of Book with Eva (behind the technology) is our team of industry experts that are on a mission to connect event planners to amazing entertainment. We are supportive and transparent with everything we do. We believe in inclusivity, always, and thrive to radiate that through our entertainment. We are driven to help our clients reach their event goals and create meaningful experiences that inspire.
2019
Investor/Board Member
Jun 2019
Funded by its CEO Rod Contreras in 2008, a one man company, it has grown to over 35 employees, gathering the best talent and creative minds in Chile. Gamaga’s titles have received world-wide recognition and have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times generating very significant revenues. Banana Kong, their first mobile development, was so popular it achieved over 130 Million downloads, and it is still played until this day. Gamaga’s recent simulation game, Operate Now: Hospital, generated over 30 million downloads in its first year. Company's latest development Cobra Kai: Card Fighter has become a new world class hit. Gamaga provides work for hire development services to clients that are looking for mobile, PC and console platforms.
Founder/Chairman
Jan 2019
A place where fans invest in cool projects and get a share of the profits.
2018
Luxedge Furniture
Investor/Board Member
Jan 2018
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