Brett Topche

Co-founder and Managing Director at Red & Blue Ventures

📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Apr 2020
Our sensors + data predict shelf life to reduce food waste and improve quality.
Board Member
Mar 2020
MD Ally expands the scope of virtual Public Safety & Health Services
Board Observer
Dec 2016
Burrow is not a normal furniture company. Normal was never good enough. Frustrated by compromises between quality, affordability, and convenience, Burrow is taking a new approach. With a focus on innovative, modular designs, ease of assembly, and fast shipping, Burrow is on a mission to solve the biggest problems in furniture. Burrow has joined Havenly Brands. For updates about Burrow, including job openings and the latest company news, please visit: havenlybrands.com
Board Member
Aug 2016
Founded in 2014, AptDeco is an online furniture resale marketplace that makes the buying and selling of used furniture easy, affordable, and accessible. After frustrating and uncomfortable experiences buying and selling furniture on other platforms, co-founders Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis set out to create a platform in which everyday decorators could re-home furniture in a safe and convenient environment. AptDeco offers pickup, assembly, delivery, payment, scheduling and logistics, all carried out by a highly-trained Delivery Team. AptDeco carries pre-loved home furnishings at up to 70% savings from a range of top brands, including West Elm, Jonathan Adler, Pottery Barn, World Market and many more. AptDeco is headquartered in New York, NY and serves members across the United States. AptDeco is a graduate of the prestigious Y Combinator startup school, and has raised $17M to date led by Initialized Capital. Join the resale movement at aptdeco.com and @aptdeco.
Board Member
Feb 2015
CloudMine is a secure data enablement platform that helps healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations to build intelligent, connected solutions. CloudMine connects the world of healthcare data to make it fully interoperable, enabling organizations to operationalize data through application development, analytics and workflow. The CloudMine Connected Health Cloud empowers healthcare organizations to rapidly build engaging digital experiences by removing the complexity of app development, and allowing focus on business needs. CloudMine's Connected Health Cloud is being used by world-class enterprises including Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, Biomeme, Endo Pharmaceuticals and Digitas Health to improve patient outcomes.
Board Observer
Jan 2015
goTenna is the worlds leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTennas mesh networking protocol, Aspen Grove™, is embedded into lightweight, low-cost devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps enabling mobile, long-range connectivity even without cell, wifi, or satellite. goTenna’s mesh technology enables decentralized, programmable mobile infrastructure on a global scale in markets ranging from public sector to enterprise and IoT. The goTenna vision to create a resilient communications system was ignited during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations were knocked out. Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, goTenna is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. Learn more about our team and discover open positions at http://www.gotenna.com/jobs.
Board Observer
Jun 2014
Jet (A Walmart Company) Bold vision. Brilliant minds. Nimble environment. Jet.com is changing the way the world shops with innovative technology and a people-centric approach. We move at the speed of a startup with access to unrivaled resources; our team likes to say it’s the best of both worlds. Ready for rapid growth and learning? Join us—the future of shopping is yours to build and explore.
Board Member
Sep 2012
PayPerks has been acquired by SMI (https://www.linkedin.com/company/systems-&-methods/). PayPerks education, gamification, and rewards are now available as an integrated component of the smiONE Visa Debit card. You can read more about the acquisition here: https://www.prweb.com/releases/smi_acquires_innovative_financial_literacy_and_capability_platform_payperks_for_smione_cardholders/prweb18041100.htm
Investor Advisory Board
Jun 2012
SnipSnap is a mobile coupon startup that makes it extraordinarily easy to scan and save any coupon (printed, mailed or otherwise) to your smartphone, simply by taking a photograph of it. After that, the app works its magic and recognizes the text, barcode, and images on the coupon to allow it to be indexed, saved, and redeemed on your phone. We give users a completely novel new way to use mobile offers, and in the process of capturing these offers, we also offer coupon advertisers (manufacturers, merchants, local shops) targeting based on things like past scanning history and location.
Board Observer
Aug 2011
Curalate enables brands to use social content and social audiences to sell more effectively online. Over 1,000 brands and retailers including Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Sephora and J.Crew use Curalate to turn images and videos into shoppable content on their sites, social channels, ads, and emails. Curalate is home to nearly 100 employees across four offices: London, New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle. For more information, please visit us: www.curalate.com.
Board Member
Aug 2011
"The better boutique." What does that mean? It’s how we shop. Or, rather, how we wanted to shop, when we realized there really wasn’t a way to do it yet. We loved the unique, independent, and local designers we met in our first year of operation, and we wanted to rep them from the rooftops. We loved the neat details we could tell about them, and the attention we could bring by showcasing them next to established and classic names. It’s a shop-around-the-corner mentality, an old-timey care for what we buy and how we sell it, but with the lifestyle of today: easy, always new, affordable, and accessible online and off. It’s who we are as consumers: local devotees always plugged into our global networks, and it’s how we wanted to change shopping everywhere. Each week, both online and in our retail stores, we showcase new apparel and accessories from upstart and early-career creators we think you’ll love, right next to classic brands with a unique feel. Discover their stories, save on their collections, and get personal style advice from our team.
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Board Member
Mar 2011
Wanderfly is the best place to discover and share personalized travel recommendations. Our premise is simple: everyone travels differently, so we all need different recommendations. We’re here to make travel planning more personal, simple, fun, human and inspiring. Wanderfly was acquired by TripAdvisor in October 2012.
Board Observer
May 2010
Innova Dynamics is a rapidly-growing, venture capital-backed nanotechnology company serving the touch screen and display industries. This University of Pennsylvania spin-off is commercializing a far reaching materials platform, Innlay™, that can transform device performance by embedding nanoparticles directly into the surfaces of polymers and creating new polymer functionalities. Innova is unleashing the full-potential of touch screens by leap frogging the performance of existing materials, enabling sensors of any size and shape, and dramatically reducing the overall manufacturing costs. Future opportunities to leverage the Innlay™ platform include OLED lighting, OLED displays, thin-film solar, smart windows, anti-infective medical devices, and numerous other application spaces. We are actively collaborating with the top companies in touch screens, consumer electronics, and the chemical/materials industry to bring our first touch products to market over the next 1-2 years. A team of highly successful industry veterans paired with the founding entrepreneurs leads the company. We are seeking high-performance, committed individuals that want to make a difference while building a great, new technology company.
Board Observer
Mar 2010
SeniorHomes.com is a free resource for people looking for senior housing or senior care for a loved one or themselves. With a free care advisor service, valuable articles and a comprehensive directory of care options, SeniorHomes.com is the best place to start your search for assisted living, independent living, Alzheimer's care, a retirement community or home care. SeniorHomes.com was purchased by Bankrate in January 2015.
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2020
Board Member
Apr 2020
Our sensors + data predict shelf life to reduce food waste and improve quality.
Board Member
Mar 2020
MD Ally expands the scope of virtual Public Safety & Health Services
2016
Board Observer
Dec 2016
Burrow is not a normal furniture company. Normal was never good enough. Frustrated by compromises between quality, affordability, and convenience, Burrow is taking a new approach. With a focus on innovative, modular designs, ease of assembly, and fast shipping, Burrow is on a mission to solve the biggest problems in furniture. Burrow has joined Havenly Brands. For updates about Burrow, including job openings and the latest company news, please visit: havenlybrands.com
Board Member
Aug 2016
Founded in 2014, AptDeco is an online furniture resale marketplace that makes the buying and selling of used furniture easy, affordable, and accessible. After frustrating and uncomfortable experiences buying and selling furniture on other platforms, co-founders Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis set out to create a platform in which everyday decorators could re-home furniture in a safe and convenient environment. AptDeco offers pickup, assembly, delivery, payment, scheduling and logistics, all carried out by a highly-trained Delivery Team. AptDeco carries pre-loved home furnishings at up to 70% savings from a range of top brands, including West Elm, Jonathan Adler, Pottery Barn, World Market and many more. AptDeco is headquartered in New York, NY and serves members across the United States. AptDeco is a graduate of the prestigious Y Combinator startup school, and has raised $17M to date led by Initialized Capital. Join the resale movement at aptdeco.com and @aptdeco.
Co-founder and Managing Director
Jan 2016
Red & Blue Ventures is a privately owned, seed and early-stage venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with Penn students, alumni, and faculty as key personnel
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