John Weiss

Founder & CEO at Human

📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Mar 2019
Uncanny.gg (Formerly: Pivan Interactive) is a Boulder, CO-based tech company building machine learning powered tools to elevate the live streaming, gaming, and esports markets.
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Mar 2019
The worlds most advanced on-stream advertising platform. https://brands.uncanny.gg/
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Sep 2016
Hygge Power: Own Your Power CO-Z: Everyone Powered Hygge Power is on a mission to ensure everyone is comfortably powered with clean, reliable energy and impactful insights. Analyzing billions of data points from buildings, climates, qualitative and real-time sensor inputs, Hygge Power’s proprietary software—Project CO-Z—accelerates electricity decarbonization and provides comfort optimization. The CO-Z energy platform was designed to integrate with external smart devices and building systems, empowering renters, homeowners and businesses by providing advanced control and automated energy savings, as well as protecting them from power failures. The technology will first be available through Hygge’s user-friendly smartphone app and scalable energy storage.
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Mar 2016
Rayback Collective is a venue serving the greater community of Boulder with food, drink, music and play. We have a rotation of Boulder’s best food trucks providing delicious cuisine along with 30 taps pouring local craft beer, cider and wine to quench your thirst. Local musicians can showcase their talent, whether rocking out or quietly serenading the crowd on our stage that is sponsored by Boulder’s own Avery Brewing Co. Outside, the porch and yard provide a great atmosphere for family and friends to enjoy 300+ days of Colorado sun. Who knows, maybe you’ll make some new friends while showing off your cornhole prowess. Rayback Collective is a backyard party and you’re invited to enjoy it with us!
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Aug 2015
At Cinebody, we seek to break down the costly practices of traditional production and bring video content creation into the modern landscape. Our technology is designed to assist brands and organizations to keep up with the constant demands for video content. Build powerful video strategies, run remote video productions, and access the Cinebody video editors and project managers to execute your projects.
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Apr 2015
Brandzooka is the most powerful way to advertise online and on TV. We believe in creating a world where the size of your idea matters more than the size of your budget. Our digital advertising platform powers 20,000+ brands worldwide by putting their ads in front of their audience. We are hard-charging, deadline-making, big chip-shouldering, lateral-thinking, fast-decisioning, intense-listening, collaborative-working, foul-mouthed, mischief making, equality-loving, multi-colored, scrappy underdogs, and we wont stop until everyone has access to programmatic video advertising. Follow us for updates as we flip the #media and #adtech world upside down with a revolutionary new movement we call #BrandTech: twitter.com/brandzooka facebook.com/brandzooka instagram.com/brandzooka
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2019
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Mar 2019
Uncanny.gg (Formerly: Pivan Interactive) is a Boulder, CO-based tech company building machine learning powered tools to elevate the live streaming, gaming, and esports markets.
Investor/Advisor
Mar 2019
The worlds most advanced on-stream advertising platform. https://brands.uncanny.gg/
2018
TRIBAL App
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Jul 2018
2017
Limited Partner
Jan 2017
BCV is an early stage venture capital firm located in hideous Boulder, Colorado. Our interests lie within the earliest of startup stages, and our time, effort and resources are therefore primarily dedicated to working with companies that are pre-revenue, pre-seed, and in many cases pre-everything. Verticals you ask? Nope. Geographic regions? Nope. Want to get in contact? Send us a letter via the U.S. Postal Service.
2016
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Sep 2016
Hygge Power: Own Your Power CO-Z: Everyone Powered Hygge Power is on a mission to ensure everyone is comfortably powered with clean, reliable energy and impactful insights. Analyzing billions of data points from buildings, climates, qualitative and real-time sensor inputs, Hygge Power’s proprietary software—Project CO-Z—accelerates electricity decarbonization and provides comfort optimization. The CO-Z energy platform was designed to integrate with external smart devices and building systems, empowering renters, homeowners and businesses by providing advanced control and automated energy savings, as well as protecting them from power failures. The technology will first be available through Hygge’s user-friendly smartphone app and scalable energy storage.
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