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Brad Gillespie

General Partner at IA Ventures

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 29 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
29
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17
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5
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0
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17y
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Board Observer
2022
Datapane makes it simple to build interactive reports in seconds using Python. Import Datapane Python library into your script or notebook and build reports programmatically in 3 lines of Python. Data Scientists use Datapane to share apps and insights with more than 50,000 people a month at hundreds of companies, from start-ups to F500s. Founded and built by Y Combinator alumni, Oxford PhDs, and leading Python engineers, Datapane is backed by top-tier investors such as Morado Ventures, Acequia Capital, and AME Cloud Ventures.
Board Observer
2022
LootLocker is the plug and play, cross-platform backend for developers to build, ship, and run their best games. Skip the grind and level up your game.
Board Observer
2021
Cobbler is your AI-powered FP&A Analyst. We help companies make sense of their financial data, so finance can easily provide the business the insights it needs— in real-time. With our product, you can easily understand budget variance analysis, BVA commentary, headcount planning & reporting, rolling forecasts, and dynamic income statements.
Board Observer
2021
Rupert helps data analysts quickly and accurately surface the scenarios that matter most to their stakeholders with our no-code alert builder. With Rupert, accelerate any time sensitive data-driven workflow with precise, real-time alerts. For example: Identify and respond to operational issues or SLA breaches faster to keep internal processes on track and customer satisfaction high Unblock sales or onboarding funnels more effectively by reacting right away when a valuable prospect or user is not progressing to the next stage Monitor customer accounts for any activity, health, churn, or upsell signals you chose, so your account managers easily can provide highly-responsive, white glove service that keeps and grows your accounts --- Analysts deserve the flexibility and control to deliver timely, personalized, data-rich alerts. No ETL. No engineering. No noise. Try Rupert today
Board Member
2021
Ethyca builds automated data privacy infrastructure and tools for developers and privacy teams to easily build products that comply with GDPR, CCPA Privacy Regulations. Ethycas powerful and flexible automated data privacy and protection tools provide any business with a future-proof solution to compliance with privacy regulations across global jurisdictions. Whether youre simply collecting consumer email addresses or inferring complex data points from unlimited data points, Ethyca provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your users data. We believe that user privacy matters more now than ever and that the solution to managing user data is not in regulation but in code. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethyca Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethyca Blog: https://ethyca.com/news
Investor
2021
Prelude is a technology company that hardens cybersecurity defenses. Organizations of all sizes can use our tools to run continuous security tests against their systems to discover areas of weakness to fix. We do that in a way that's safe, transparent, and integrated with existing defensive tools to allow organizations to get ahead of real incidents before they happen. Our mission is to increase the reach, frequency and usage of advanced security for all organizations.
Investor
2020
Lightweight cloud compute platform for Python people. Built for data engineers and scientists. Obsessively crafted for developer experience.
Board Member
2019
Care delivery companies — from 4-person telehealth startups to 40 million-member health plans — leverage Canvas software and APIs to launch new patient experiences and business models faster, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. We bring together everything it takes to integrate new digital patient experiences, care models, and payment arrangements. The Canvas platform enables orchestrating care services and payments for companies delivering direct-to-consumer virtual care, at-risk complex care, and everything in between. The Canvas platform enables established medical groups to get ahead of industry transformation, as well as novel payer-provider collaborations.
Investor
2019
Strateos is a pioneer in the development of remote access laboratories and lab control software for life science discovery. Our mission is to create new knowledge driven by data, computation, automation, and high-throughput robotics with the goal of fundamentally advancing the life sciences. The Strateos Automation-as-a-Service Platform helps scientists more efficiently and reproducibly design, run, and analyze experiments to achieve new and faster scientific discoveries.
Board Member
2017
Drift is the only energy retailer that powers businesses with 100% green energy, 100% of the time. We seek to electrify the world with 100% green energy. All-day. Everyday. So we built Drift 100 to deliver an uninterrupted supply of green energy with our unique mix of locally-sourced solar, wind, and run-of-river hydro. Our technology matches every unit of green energy generated to power usage in real-time so that you can be 100% sure you’ve reached your goal of 100% green energy, every hour of the day.
Board Member
2016
Lygos is a pioneering sustainable specialty chemicals company, leading the world’s transition toward better, cleaner, and more sustainable products. We have built a proprietary and fully integrated platform of the most advanced technologies across synthetic biology, industrial chemistry, and application development to rapidly deliver market relevant solutions to some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges. With a pipeline of high-performing, innovative solutions, Lygos is paving the way for generations of new sustainable solutions for our world.
Board Member
2016
We are delivering on-orbit data at lightspeed with a constellation of satellites designed to act as Internet exchange points for space-to-space data relay. Headquartered in downtown Toronto, Kepler is vertically integrated with an in-house production facility, designing and deploying a hybrid optical constellation to modernize communications to missions in LEO and beyond.
Board Observer
2015
Stability above all. We are a data company. We use machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by industrial operations into insights that help you, the experts, focus on the anomalies that affect your team’s safety, productivity and bottom line. Our job is to make complex data simpler to interpret. Your job is to make it matter. Our proprietary Stability Score is a simple metric that gives operators a way to quickly see changes in plant and production systems, down to a single asset or sensor, and decide on the changes that matter. Our flagship product Alluvium Primer analyzes collected data to improve ongoing stability in industrial operations.
Board Member
2014
Acquired by Bizzabo
Board Member
2014
Nice to meet you, we’re Hometeam. We’re a mission-driven company working at the intersection of technology and healthcare to change the way Americans experience wellness in their senior years. We are proud to support older adults with a diverse team of caregivers, clinicians and care managers, all enabled by user-centric technology collaboratively developed in-house. Our goal is to positively affect health outcomes and empower older adults to live their lives at home, connected to their community.
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2022
Board Observer
2022
Datapane makes it simple to build interactive reports in seconds using Python. Import Datapane Python library into your script or notebook and build reports programmatically in 3 lines of Python. Data Scientists use Datapane to share apps and insights with more than 50,000 people a month at hundreds of companies, from start-ups to F500s. Founded and built by Y Combinator alumni, Oxford PhDs, and leading Python engineers, Datapane is backed by top-tier investors such as Morado Ventures, Acequia Capital, and AME Cloud Ventures.
Board Observer
2022
LootLocker is the plug and play, cross-platform backend for developers to build, ship, and run their best games. Skip the grind and level up your game.
2021
Board Observer
2021
Cobbler is your AI-powered FP&A Analyst. We help companies make sense of their financial data, so finance can easily provide the business the insights it needs— in real-time. With our product, you can easily understand budget variance analysis, BVA commentary, headcount planning & reporting, rolling forecasts, and dynamic income statements.
Board Observer
2021
Rupert helps data analysts quickly and accurately surface the scenarios that matter most to their stakeholders with our no-code alert builder. With Rupert, accelerate any time sensitive data-driven workflow with precise, real-time alerts. For example: Identify and respond to operational issues or SLA breaches faster to keep internal processes on track and customer satisfaction high Unblock sales or onboarding funnels more effectively by reacting right away when a valuable prospect or user is not progressing to the next stage Monitor customer accounts for any activity, health, churn, or upsell signals you chose, so your account managers easily can provide highly-responsive, white glove service that keeps and grows your accounts --- Analysts deserve the flexibility and control to deliver timely, personalized, data-rich alerts. No ETL. No engineering. No noise. Try Rupert today
Board Member
2021
Ethyca builds automated data privacy infrastructure and tools for developers and privacy teams to easily build products that comply with GDPR, CCPA Privacy Regulations. Ethycas powerful and flexible automated data privacy and protection tools provide any business with a future-proof solution to compliance with privacy regulations across global jurisdictions. Whether youre simply collecting consumer email addresses or inferring complex data points from unlimited data points, Ethyca provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your users data. We believe that user privacy matters more now than ever and that the solution to managing user data is not in regulation but in code. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethyca Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethyca Blog: https://ethyca.com/news
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