Brian De Lowe

Derive Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the advancement of travel, hospitality and leisure. We are targeting investments in companies raising capital in core travel sectors as well as sectors tangential to travel with innovative business concepts, ideas and technology. Travel is a massive, complex industry and Derive is built to help entrepreneurs navigate the evolving landscape.

Derive Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the advancement of travel, hospitality and leisure. We are targeting investments in companies raising capital in core travel sectors as well as sectors tangential to travel with innovative business concepts, ideas and technology. Travel is a massive, complex industry and Derive is built to help entrepreneurs navigate the evolving landscape.

Proper Hospitality designs, brands, and operates high-end lifestyle hospitality experiences under the Proper, Hotel June and The Collective brands. Each property is a distinct reflection of the vibrant community surrounding it, yet shares a common belief in uncommon luxury, convenience of location, and world-class amenities provided by locally vetted innovators in food and beverage, technology, art, music, fashion and wellness. Led by the visionaries behind The Kor Group, the company currently manages Proper branded hotels in Santa Monica, Downtown L.A., San Francisco and Austin, the Hotel June in West Los Angeles and Malibu; and The Collective, a curation of design-driven independent hotels including Avalon Hotels in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, the Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs, the Venice V Hotel in Venice Beach and The Culver Hotel in Culver City. Look to see the brands expand into new markets such as Dallas, Miami, Portland, and Palm Springs. Santa Monica Proper https://www.properhotel.com/santa-monica/ Downtown L.A. Proper https://www.properhotel.com/downtown-la/ Austin Proper https://www.properhotel.com/austin/ San Francisco Proper https://www.properhotel.com/san-francisco/ Hotel June West LA https://www.thehoteljune.com/west-los-angeles/ Hotel June Malibu https://www.thehoteljune.com/malibu/ Ingleside Inn https://www.inglesideinn.com/ Avalon Palm Springs https://www.avalon-hotel.com/palm-springs/ Avalon Beverly Hills https://www.avalon-hotel.com/beverly-hills/ Venice V Hotel https://venicevhotel.com/ The Culver Hotel https://www.culverhotel.com/ Proper Giving https://www.properhotel.com/proper-giving/

Buchanan Street Partners is a nationally recognized real estate investment management firm. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Buchanan Street Partners manages commingled investment funds, institutional separate accounts and individual institutional and high net worth investment vehicles. Since its inception, Buchanan has invested and structured approximately $17 billion of investments from a broad range of direct acquisitions, equity placements and debt investments throughout the United States. Buchanan Street Partners’ success was built upon the core values of knowledge, teamwork, trust, results and leadership which they have carried forward through industry influence benefiting it’s 501(C)(3) organization Buchanan Children’s Charities, established to measurably improve the quality of life and education opportunities for children.