Bret Siarkowski

Investor | Inventor | Advisor | Board member

📍 Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
VC🌍 United States
9
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5
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0
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1
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24y
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Board Member
Jan 2018
The mission of the Financial Policy Council Inc. ("FPC"​) is to formulate and promote sound public policy based on the principles of free enterprise and wealth creation as envisioned by the ideals of the American Founding Fathers. FPC is a public policy-oriented organization which seeks to educate and inform the public about economic and fiscal matters. We view America as the land of opportunity where freedom and prosperity have flourished. Our goal is to ensure that America retains an economic and regulatory system conducive to economic growth and wealth creation, and is not derailed by poorly formulated and reactive economic, fiscal and tax policy. In addition, we strongly believe that America reclaim and retain its leading role in the global economic community. We seek to achieve our mission in the following ways: • We EDUCATE policy makers and the public to enable them to support and recognize sound financial public policy, with a clear understanding of the issues of concern to entrepreneurs, investors and the public. • We INFORM entrepreneurs, investors and the public of the roles they can play to ensure that their opinions are heard by and persuade policy makers of the soundness of our public policy solutions. • We EMPOWER entrepreneurs, investors and the public by creating a forum through which their voices can clearly be heard by and in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. • We BRIDGE the chasm between Washington, Wall Street and Main Street using sound, rational economic research and education. We pursue our mission by performing timely and accurate research on key policy issues and effectively marketing these findings to key policy makers, the nation's news media, and the academic and policy communities at large.
Lead Investor, Board member
Aug 2014
Elsen is the Platform-as-a-Service company for large financial institutions. The Elsen nPlatform enables anyone to effortlessly harness vast quantities of data to make better decisions and quickly solve the most complex problems.
Co-Founder, Investor, Board member, CTO
Jan 2014
At Causemo, we believe fundraising should be easier and more efficient for nonprofits. Our single platform solution powers multi-channel campaigns using big data and machine learning. We fuse information about your donors with our extensive set of third party philanthropic giving data to create enriched profiles and uncover new opportunities to engage with more of your best prospects inside and outside of your known donor base. Nonprofits using Causemo see a lower cost per donor acquisition, higher conversion to second action and are fully supported from creative to execution by our team of data and fundraising experts.
Investor
2013
Virsec is a zero trust protection platform for application workloads. Radically strengthen your security program, stop attacks in milliseconds, and eliminate dwell time with Virsec’s precise, continuous workload protection.
Investor
2012
Avec ses serres sur toits et son réseau de partenaires responsables, Les Fermes Lufa créent un système alimentaire local plus durable, juste et transparent. Visitez notre Marché en ligne au www.montreal.lufa.com. By farming on rooftops and partnering with responsible farms and food makers, Lufa Farms is creating a more sustainable, equitable, and transparent local food system. Visit our online Marketplace at www.montreal.lufa.com.
early stageFarming
Investor
2011
Here at Little Duck Organics, we pride ourselves on making healthy, tasty snacks that you and your little one will love! Our products are 100% Organic, Non-GMO, Gluten-Free and Kosher! Our products have no added sugar, no preservatives, and no artificial colors or flavors. Superfoods for super humans! Whether you’re looking for real fruit snacks or snacks packed full with probiotics to help support digestive and immune health, there’s a Little Duck product for you. We love using superfood ingredients like acai and goji, and our products have all the natural vitamins and minerals found in fresh produce. We think Little Duck is a Big Deal! Our snacks are available at fine grocers nationwide, including Whole Foods, Kroger, Ahold, Amazon, Babies R US, Safeway, Target, Walgreens, and many more. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
early stageFood & Beverages
Investor
2010
What is Blaze? Blaze is an online service that speeds up Websites by optimizing Web Front End Performance. Blaze's automated optimization combined with our Content Delivery Network partner will maximize the potential performance of your site. Who is it for? Blaze is used by performance architects or operations engineers to accelerate their sites for their users. Blaze can be used on any Web site or intranet application - both static & dynamic. It requires no new hardware or code changes. Why use BLAZE? Speeding up your site will reduce customer abandonment & improve your google rank. Blaze also significantly cuts operating costs by improving site efficiency. Deploying Blaze on your site is fast and simple. Find out more.
Experience · 15 entries
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Founder (6)
Board (2)
2021
Co-founder and Advisor
Nov 2021
Burn Ghost is Fandom Rewarded. Our mission is to be the world’s most engaging, innovative, and trustworthy casual game platform. Through our games, tournaments, and exceptional prizes, we fuel community, competition and the joy of winning. Burn Ghost is a play-to-win Web3 casual gaming platform that allows users to win NFTs playing games-of-skill. The games featured on the platform are quick, test your knowledge, and are a lot of fun to challenge your friends with. We focus on games that are instantly familiar and feel like you won’t be too intimidated to jump in and play. We have built into the platform ways that make any player feel like they have a good shot at winning, and they do. The Burn Ghost team has been developing games for large brands for over three decades. With partnerships with industry leaders Dapper Labs, Immunity X and others, the company has brought the top minds and resources to the platform from a creative, business, marketing, and technology perspective. The Burn Ghost community is currently open, free games are available, and the platform is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2023. We make it easy, engaging, and entertaining for anybody to play in the world of NFTs, digital collectibles, and beyond. We give anybody and everybody the opportunity be a player, and give players the opportunity to bet on themselves.
early stageComputer Games
2018
Board Member
Jan 2018
The mission of the Financial Policy Council Inc. ("FPC"​) is to formulate and promote sound public policy based on the principles of free enterprise and wealth creation as envisioned by the ideals of the American Founding Fathers. FPC is a public policy-oriented organization which seeks to educate and inform the public about economic and fiscal matters. We view America as the land of opportunity where freedom and prosperity have flourished. Our goal is to ensure that America retains an economic and regulatory system conducive to economic growth and wealth creation, and is not derailed by poorly formulated and reactive economic, fiscal and tax policy. In addition, we strongly believe that America reclaim and retain its leading role in the global economic community. We seek to achieve our mission in the following ways: • We EDUCATE policy makers and the public to enable them to support and recognize sound financial public policy, with a clear understanding of the issues of concern to entrepreneurs, investors and the public. • We INFORM entrepreneurs, investors and the public of the roles they can play to ensure that their opinions are heard by and persuade policy makers of the soundness of our public policy solutions. • We EMPOWER entrepreneurs, investors and the public by creating a forum through which their voices can clearly be heard by and in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. • We BRIDGE the chasm between Washington, Wall Street and Main Street using sound, rational economic research and education. We pursue our mission by performing timely and accurate research on key policy issues and effectively marketing these findings to key policy makers, the nation's news media, and the academic and policy communities at large.
2016
Founder and General Partner
Jul 2016
US/Asia-based venture capital portfolio focused on emerging technologies in the biotech & healthcare sectors.
2014
Lead Investor, Board member
Aug 2014
Elsen is the Platform-as-a-Service company for large financial institutions. The Elsen nPlatform enables anyone to effortlessly harness vast quantities of data to make better decisions and quickly solve the most complex problems.
Co-Founder, Investor, Board member, CTO
Jan 2014
At Causemo, we believe fundraising should be easier and more efficient for nonprofits. Our single platform solution powers multi-channel campaigns using big data and machine learning. We fuse information about your donors with our extensive set of third party philanthropic giving data to create enriched profiles and uncover new opportunities to engage with more of your best prospects inside and outside of your known donor base. Nonprofits using Causemo see a lower cost per donor acquisition, higher conversion to second action and are fully supported from creative to execution by our team of data and fundraising experts.
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