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Christian Braun

Collector of Collectors

📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2016
VC🌍 United States
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Member of the Board
Sep 2016
Auto-Archives is a 501c(3) Automotive Library and Research Center based in Littleton, Colorado. The archive, which is open to any car enthusiast, is an incredible collection of literature and memorabilia from the Automotive and Auto Racing worlds. We currently have over 31,500 magazines, 1,200 books and 350 model cars, in our library, and it is still growing. The Auto-Archives photographic library holds over 71,000 historic images from the archives of several renowned automotive photographers. Auto-Archives is open to all enthusiasts, automotive journalists, car clubs, researchers, schools and colleges to view the collection.
mid stage
Angel Investor & Board Member
Dec 2012
EO41 adds product discovery platforms to special interest sites. Our product discovery engine empowers boutique brands and vendors to drive eCommerce sales, publishers to generate revenue, and consumers to discover products they love. Every month, over 200M people visit special interest sites to read, discuss and learn about their hobbies & interests, yet commercial content is largely excluded from this discovery experience (aside from display ads). Our platform enables eCommerce vendors and publishers to be active actors in a consumer's product discovery process by seamlessly integrating product listings and stories into specialized editorial and social sites. It automatically aggregates eCommerce feeds from stores around the web and distributes contextual curated & personalized feeds to users across a network of white labeled special interest sites.
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2022
Industry Partner
Dec 2022
Global Toy Experts is a world-renowned consultancy and resource for toy industry insight and information led by well-known industry leader, Richard Gottlieb. Experts provide cutting-edge analysis and strategies to domestic toy manufacturers as well as those international providers who are looking to raise their profile in the United States & the world. The consultancy also provides unique observations and commentary at speaking engagements and conferences globally, furnishing the toy industry with exceptional blueprints for success. Additionally, Global Toy Experts publishes Global Toy News, a Web-based magazine that covers toy industry news and provides resource links. With an M.B.A. in Global Management, Richard Gottlieb has years of toy industry experience in helping small, medium and large toy manufacturers increase their market share. He frequently speaks at toy industry conferences, and was named Ambassador to the United States for the Spielwarenmesse International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany. In recognition of his prominence in the toy industry, Richard is member of the National Toy Hall of Fame voting committee. Richard has also authored the book, Ambassador to the Kingdom of Wal-Mart.
2016
Member of the Board
Sep 2016
Auto-Archives is a 501c(3) Automotive Library and Research Center based in Littleton, Colorado. The archive, which is open to any car enthusiast, is an incredible collection of literature and memorabilia from the Automotive and Auto Racing worlds. We currently have over 31,500 magazines, 1,200 books and 350 model cars, in our library, and it is still growing. The Auto-Archives photographic library holds over 71,000 historic images from the archives of several renowned automotive photographers. Auto-Archives is open to all enthusiasts, automotive journalists, car clubs, researchers, schools and colleges to view the collection.
mid stage
2012
Angel Investor & Board Member
Dec 2012
EO41 adds product discovery platforms to special interest sites. Our product discovery engine empowers boutique brands and vendors to drive eCommerce sales, publishers to generate revenue, and consumers to discover products they love. Every month, over 200M people visit special interest sites to read, discuss and learn about their hobbies & interests, yet commercial content is largely excluded from this discovery experience (aside from display ads). Our platform enables eCommerce vendors and publishers to be active actors in a consumer's product discovery process by seamlessly integrating product listings and stories into specialized editorial and social sites. It automatically aggregates eCommerce feeds from stores around the web and distributes contextual curated & personalized feeds to users across a network of white labeled special interest sites.
2001
Intrepid Ventures
Partner
Apr 2001
1996
Vice President
May 1996
Every year, the infrastructure that powers our homes, transports our products, heals our loved ones, and keeps our societies moving forward needs a trillion dollars more investment than it gets. GE Capital wants to change that. We believe industry and finance have to speak the same language if you’re going to drive the kind of progress the world needs now. We believe our people understand exactly what it takes to make the world work better every day, everywhere, for everyone. And we believe GE’s vision is best served by a business that knows the complexity, risk and potential of everything we offer customers — because we don’t only build it, we finance it, too. It’s more important than ever that the industries sustaining our lives get the support they deserve. At GE Capital, we use the scale, intelligence and sheer inventiveness that’s in our DNA to do just that — whether it’s being the partner of choice for the first world or developing opportunities for the emerging world, we have the talent and the capability to make a better world anywhere we invest. And that’s why GE Capital is different. We’re more than a product or service. We create relationships that support the growth of every customer with whom we partner. We’re a team of the brightest minds in finance – with unmatchable expertise in the industries that matter most. And we’ve got plans for the future. The new GE Capital is aligned with GE’s industrial businesses to bring customers cutting edge financial solutions as our company continues to build, move, power and cure the world. The world we live in today, the world we want to live in tomorrow and the world whose possibilities we’re only just imagining. GE Capital.
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