Josh Jones

Budget Branson

📍 Santa Monica, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 7 investments📅 30 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Jan 2019
Lucid Sight was founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, California, and started its journey with the goal of developing technologies to support the evolving gaming landscape. Lucid Sight has innovated on and explored new technologies across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, VR, Console, and PC), working with major IPs and brands. To date, Lucid Sight has built over two dozen games, apps, and experiences using its cutting-edge multiplayer tech stack. These games include MLB Champions, CSC x Star Trek, and Justice League for PSVR. In 2021 Lucid Sight acquired Colyseus, a 6 year old open-source multiplayer engine built on JavaScript. Colysues joins Lucid Sights existing technology stack to create Colyseus Arena, a cloud solution for the democratization of multiplayer game development. Colyseus Arena unlocks the ability to create multiplayer games without networking expertise. Game creators will be freed from the complexities of network engineering to focus on the experience: Get to Fun Faster ™
Board Member
Dec 2017
RepresentUs is the nation’s largest grassroots anti-corruption campaign. We bring together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful laws that stop political bribery, end secret money, and give voters a stronger voice. Together, we’re fixing our corrupt political system – so our leaders represent us. With a 21st-century hybrid campaign model, we’re building a robust grassroots political movement to fix it. Our unique strategy blends boots-on-the-ground organizing, viral digital media, and local ballot-box victories in cities and states across America. RepresentUs has over 600,000 members throughout the nation, including thousands of active, committed volunteers leading chapters in communities across America. Our fun, shareable online content is helping build a public educated about important issues in American politics – and at 55 million views, it’s working. We love our staff, and we’re committed to continuing to bring in top talent. We offer highly competitive salaries, amazing benefits, and four weeks paid vacation a year (that we actually take!). Not to mention a stellar office culture.
Board Member
Dec 2011
Inktank® is now part of the Red Hat family. For more on Inktank Ceph Enterprise™, now Red Hat® Ceph Storage, please visit us at: LinkedIn Company Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat Join the Red Hat® Storage LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8636696 and find more information at http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage/ceph.
Board Member
Aug 2011
The mission of Group B Strep International (GBSI) is to promote international awareness and prevention of Group B Strep disease in babies before birth through early infancy. Our goal is to be a central resource for GBS information in a variety of languages for both the general public and medical professionals. The scope of our mission includes actively supporting the GBS awareness and prevention efforts of individuals and organizations on a community or national level. ​ Group B Strep International’s focus includes all stages of a baby’s development in which they are susceptible to GBS infection. This ranges from unborn babies in the first trimester to infants up to six months of age.
Co-Founder and Board Member
Apr 1996
Leaders in Managed WordPress hosting, DreamHost gives people the tools to own their online presence. We believe in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Visit https://www.dreamhost.com/ for more information.
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2021
Co-Founder
Oct 2021
Gondola Ventures (GVC) finances and assembles project consortiums to construct and operate urban and point of interest gondola systems. It leverages existing sourcing relationships (major manufacturers) and exclusive in-house expertise to track, vet and select the most profitable and implementable projects. GVC is primarily investing in ropeway development projects across North America with a team composed of leading experts in the Gondola ropeway and investment industry to help navigate the political, technical and financial landscape. Gondola Ventures currently has several Gondola systems under agreement ranging from $50m to $500m USD.
2020
Founder
Aug 2020
Groo the Wanderer media rights owner - Financing, packaging and producing projects based on Sergio Aragonés' comic book creation Groo the Wanderer. Focus on animated film and tv projects with ancillary merchandise, games and other opportunities.
Investment Committee
Feb 2020
Global pre-seed fund backed by 500 founders and operators.
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
Lucid Sight was founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, California, and started its journey with the goal of developing technologies to support the evolving gaming landscape. Lucid Sight has innovated on and explored new technologies across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, VR, Console, and PC), working with major IPs and brands. To date, Lucid Sight has built over two dozen games, apps, and experiences using its cutting-edge multiplayer tech stack. These games include MLB Champions, CSC x Star Trek, and Justice League for PSVR. In 2021 Lucid Sight acquired Colyseus, a 6 year old open-source multiplayer engine built on JavaScript. Colysues joins Lucid Sights existing technology stack to create Colyseus Arena, a cloud solution for the democratization of multiplayer game development. Colyseus Arena unlocks the ability to create multiplayer games without networking expertise. Game creators will be freed from the complexities of network engineering to focus on the experience: Get to Fun Faster ™
2018
Board Member
Jan 2018
Mission Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities and the social sciences so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society. Harvey Mudd College is a private, liberal arts college of science, engineering and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. We educate the nation’s brightest young engineers, scientists and mathematicians to understand relationships. Regardless of their majors, our students graduate as passionate problem solvers who think across disciplines, communicate, collaborate and understand their impact on society.
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