Brandon Yahn

Partner, Convivialité Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
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Investor & Board Observer
2018
AvantStay is the largest and highest-rated luxury vacation rental management company in the United States. AvantStay delivers a highly-curated experience customized to guests’ needs, using a proprietary tech suite to power bookings, seamlessly operationalize in-field and remote management, and activate authentic and elevated consumer touch points. Weve been recognized by industry leaders and press with awards such as: • Forbes Best Vacation Rentals of 2026 • Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Companies 4 years in a row! • Inc 5000 2021: #332 Overall • a16z Marketplace 100: #57 Overall, #6 in Travel • 2024 Skift Short-Term Rental Awards: Finalist for Best Luxury Vacation Rental and Best Booking Platform • Skifts Short-Term Rental 250: #5 Vacation Home Manager • Top 1% Market Leader in Vacation Rental Management by Comparent • International Hospitality Institutes 100 Most Influential People in Global Hospitality and Travel for 2023: Sean Breuner & Reuben Doetsch • Built in LA Best Places to Work 2022: #59 Midsized Companies • Best Startup US: 101 Top CEOs in Hospitality
early stageHospitality
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2018
Investor & Board Observer
2018
AvantStay is the largest and highest-rated luxury vacation rental management company in the United States. AvantStay delivers a highly-curated experience customized to guests’ needs, using a proprietary tech suite to power bookings, seamlessly operationalize in-field and remote management, and activate authentic and elevated consumer touch points. Weve been recognized by industry leaders and press with awards such as: • Forbes Best Vacation Rentals of 2026 • Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Companies 4 years in a row! • Inc 5000 2021: #332 Overall • a16z Marketplace 100: #57 Overall, #6 in Travel • 2024 Skift Short-Term Rental Awards: Finalist for Best Luxury Vacation Rental and Best Booking Platform • Skifts Short-Term Rental 250: #5 Vacation Home Manager • Top 1% Market Leader in Vacation Rental Management by Comparent • International Hospitality Institutes 100 Most Influential People in Global Hospitality and Travel for 2023: Sean Breuner & Reuben Doetsch • Built in LA Best Places to Work 2022: #59 Midsized Companies • Best Startup US: 101 Top CEOs in Hospitality
early stageHospitality
2017
Partner & Co-Founder
2017
Convivialité Ventures is the venture arm of Pernod Ricard. By nurturing entrepreneurship, it plays a key role in the development of new offerings that not only embrace but also shape, the future evolution of socializing. Convivialité Ventures will move beyond Pernod Ricard’s traditional wine and spirits offerings, to cultivate radically different products and services that will enhance and change the way people come together, to socialize and entertain, in the future.
Partner - Convivialité Ventures
2017
Pernod Ricard is a convivial, responsible and successful global wine and spirits group and the #1 premium spirits organisation in the world. The Group represents 240 premium brands available in more than 160 countries. We are 18,500 exceptionally talented people worldwide with our own salesforce in 73 countries. Our portfolio is one of the most comprehensive in the market with every major category of wine and spirits, providing Pernod Ricard with a unique competitive advantage. To keep growing our business, transforming our industry and making a positive impact on the world, we believe in the power of human connection. Creating ‘convivialité’ is our business and our raison d’être. As ‘créateurs de convivialité’, our purpose is to turn every social interaction into a genuine, friendly and responsible experience of sharing. We believe there can be no convivialité with excess and strive to be sustainable and responsible at every step, from grain to glass. You must be of legal drinking age to follow and only share with others of age. Enjoy our brands responsibly. UGC policy: https://bit.ly/41XEYbx
2016
Founder, CEO
2016
Student Loans Guy is a free site that helps millennials save money on their student loans. Our personalized recommendation tool and calculators will guide you through the process: from refinancing, to income-driven repayment plans, and public service loan forgiveness. The company has participated in the Berkeley LAUNCH and SkyDeck accelerators. Weve partnered with leading student loan refinance companies like SoFi, Earnest, CommonBond, College Ave, and Lendkey to help our users find the best rates.
2015
Director, Business Development
2015
Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While were best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City. *Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC
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