Brian Hatton

Investor, Mentor, Advisor

📍 Bloomington, Indiana, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
VC🌍 United States
11
Total investments
5
Early stage
5
Mid stage
1
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Mar 2024
At Continual, we provide a simple yet powerful platform that lets people safely and anonymously report fraud, misconduct, safety risks, and other business-critical issues before they escalate. Our smart “point-in-time” technology encourages proactive reporting through a seamless, secure, and intuitive experience. Continual integrates into your existing workflows to promote accountability and deter wrongdoing before it starts.
Investor & Board Member
Jun 2021
We're Crowdfunding! Enabling users to search, browse and book outdoor stays with ease!
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2021
The future of fertility care is here. Affordable, at-home ICI-based fertility treatment designed to help you get you pregnant.
Investing Member and Venture Partner - Flywheel Fund II
Mar 2021
Flywheel Fund is a member-managed capital fund based in Bloomington, Indiana. We invest in early-stage and high-potential startups. Flywheel Fund is committed to investing a minimum of 13% of our fund to Black founders and teams. In-person office hours at The Mill: Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 We screen companies continuously to find the one that will be considered for investment every other month. The three main criteria we look for are:​ 1. Team 2. Market 3. Product Because we invest in early, team is extremely important. And in particular for software and technology, we’re looking for capital-efficient companies.
Board Member
Oct 2020
Are you struggling with Cloud Providers (i.e AWS, Azure, GCP)? Sign up to Opsly today to build and deploy your Cloud infrastructure in seconds. Drag-and-drop the Cloud services you wish to use, fill in the required configuration and hit the Deploy button to see the infrastructure deployed to your Cloud in minutes.
Board Member
Jul 2020
PowerMarket is a B2B SaaS platform that provides end-to-end solar life-cycle management. Organisations globally will spend $100 trillion on electricity by 2025. While they can save upto 30% of that by installing solar, the long, complex and expensive solar life-cycle, i.e, planning, execution and maintenance, prevents them from adopting it. PowerMarket leverages satellite data and its IP computer vision to automate and digitalise the entire life-cycle, saving organisations over 90% of their time and resources, and simplifying transition to solar. Backed and funded by Oxford University, European Space Agency and Techstars.
Investing Member - Flywheel Fund
Jul 2020
The Mill is 19,000 square feet of coworking and business incubator space located in the Trades District in downtown Bloomington, Indiana. Our mission is to launch and accelerate high-potential companies, and our vision is to become the center of coworking and entrepreneurship in Indiana. We have been producing events and programming to support the technology and innovation community since summer 2017, and renovation of the 111-year-old building was completed in fall 2018. Operating as a 501(c)(3), we build the infrastructure that technology and innovation entrepreneurs need to be successful.
Board Member
Apr 2020
Speak clearly and the world listens. At articulate.xyz we’re passionate about helping the world to speak more clearly. We believe that speaking clearly helps both streamline communications and makes the world a better place. Speaking practise when it suits you. We offer an app based, voice driven, English language learning service with a difference. We believe in building proficiency through immersion and constant use. Simply select a book and start reading aloud without embarrassment or pressure. No homework, no flashcards or tests. The system listens as you speak and provides feedback as you go.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Overseas move for a new role and navigating international finance can be daunting. Ocyan helps you understand and carefully plan your finances, such that you enjoy a trouble-free move as an expat. Do not sacrifice your effort, energy and most importantly time. Navigate your way through expat banking, expat insurance, expat mobile contracts and other essential guides for an expat, in one-stop at Ocyan.
Investor
Mar 2019
The automated platform for trading out of home media. We deliver more accurate, more efficient outcomes for out of home advertisers and media owners. For advertisers and agency buyers For the first time, clients can plan using any set of variables or data, explore individual site performance and negotiate with the media owner using a private messaging service, all within seconds. Bitposter allows detailed planning and execution by any data set, giving clients the opportunity to precisely target the audiences they need to reach at the right time. For media owners Bitposter automatically connects media owners to the majority of the major media buyers, plus many digital and international agencies who are bringing new revenues to the out of home market.
Investor
Apr 2018
We’re the UK’s most popular craft beer club, curating a delicious selection of beers for our members from a new country each month. On on a mission to build the world’s leading craft beer community. Join the conversation @beer52hq
Experience · 17 entries
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Investments (11)
Board (7)
2024
Board Member
Mar 2024
At Continual, we provide a simple yet powerful platform that lets people safely and anonymously report fraud, misconduct, safety risks, and other business-critical issues before they escalate. Our smart “point-in-time” technology encourages proactive reporting through a seamless, secure, and intuitive experience. Continual integrates into your existing workflows to promote accountability and deter wrongdoing before it starts.
2021
Investor & Board Member
Jun 2021
We're Crowdfunding! Enabling users to search, browse and book outdoor stays with ease!
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2021
The future of fertility care is here. Affordable, at-home ICI-based fertility treatment designed to help you get you pregnant.
Investing Member and Venture Partner - Flywheel Fund II
Mar 2021
Flywheel Fund is a member-managed capital fund based in Bloomington, Indiana. We invest in early-stage and high-potential startups. Flywheel Fund is committed to investing a minimum of 13% of our fund to Black founders and teams. In-person office hours at The Mill: Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 We screen companies continuously to find the one that will be considered for investment every other month. The three main criteria we look for are:​ 1. Team 2. Market 3. Product Because we invest in early, team is extremely important. And in particular for software and technology, we’re looking for capital-efficient companies.
2020
Board Member
Oct 2020
Are you struggling with Cloud Providers (i.e AWS, Azure, GCP)? Sign up to Opsly today to build and deploy your Cloud infrastructure in seconds. Drag-and-drop the Cloud services you wish to use, fill in the required configuration and hit the Deploy button to see the infrastructure deployed to your Cloud in minutes.
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