Shannon Brayton

Marketing & Comms Executive I Investor I Advisor I Board Member

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jul 2020
Founded in 2015, Datapeople was born out of the belief that people deserve a more human recruiting experience. Today, we work with teams around the world to make hiring more efficient and fair for everyone. We do this by arming recruiters, hiring managers, and talent leaders with data at every process stage. With the Datapeople platform, we help you: - Write clear, inclusive job posts that attract more diverse, qualified candidate pools and fill faster - Get your raw recruiting data report-ready so you can gain meaningful insights without the manual work - Understand your candidate pipeline instantly so you can make confident decisions about your entire hiring process With every candidate we impact, we are making recruiting more empathetic and equitable (and we impact tens of thousands of candidates every day, in 80+ countries!). Last year, we helped leading employers of all sizes and industries – from tech startups to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits to government agencies - hit their hiring goals by putting candidates first. Using Datapeople, our customers have attracted 2x more qualified organic candidates, increased candidates from underrepresented groups by at least 25%, and filled their jobs 18+ days faster. Visit http://datapeople.io/demo and sign up for a free demo today.
Investor
Jul 2020
Gem is the only AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform. It brings together your ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics — plus 650+ million profiles to source from — with AI built into every workflow. By eliminating the headaches of juggling multiple tools, Gem helps customers boost recruiter productivity by up to 5x while saving 30-50% on technology costs. Over 1,000 organizations — from startups to industry leaders like Zillow, DoorDash, and Asana — trust Gem to fuel their growth. With an industry-leading 4.8/5 rating on G2, Gem is the platform recruiters actually love to use.
Investor
Jul 2020
Trala is a tech-powered online music school. Our mission is to make world-class music education accessible to every single person on Earth. We are the fastest growing music school in the world, with over 300% growth in 2023.
Investor
Jun 2020
ChartHop is a dynamic People Operations Platform that connects and visualizes all your people data to empower your organization through insights, alignment, and action.
Advisor and Investor
Apr 2020
Publicist is a freelance management system and premium marketplace that provides global enterprises with solutions to build, manage and retain their external marketing workforce with a platform built to manage independent contractors with robust compliance and payments. Today, Publicist has thousands of premium, diverse freelancers on the platform and is currently working with some of the largest brands in the world. Our talent pool consists of pre-vetted Communications, Creative, Marketing, Media, Content, and Production talent, who have worked with some of the best agencies and brands globally. Publicist works with talent in both North America and globally and offers payroll and Employer of Record services in 170 countries.
Board Member
Oct 2019
Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company that builds technology to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Its extensible, AI-powered cloud platform, RelativityOne, transforms complex data into actionable insights at massive scale for litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, data breach responses, and other legal use cases. The world’s largest law firms and corporations, government agencies, and a robust network of channel partners rely on Relativity’s legal AI software to securely surface and manage the most relevant and impactful information in their matters. The company also expands access to technology by providing its platform at no cost to academic institutions through its Relativity Academic program and to organizations supporting pro bono legal work through its Justice for Change initiative.
Investor
Sep 2019
Notion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion, theyre all in one place, and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow. Its the all-in-one workspace for you, your team, and your whole company. We humans are toolmakers by nature, but most of us cant build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. Our team at Notion is on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.
Investor
Jul 2019
01A is founded on the belief that proven operators are uniquely positioned to help hyper-growth companies scale. We’ve grown companies $0 to $123B in yearly combined revenue and created $1T of public company market cap, as the former CEO and CRO/COO of Twitter and CRO of Facebook. We invest $10M-$20M after product-market fit (Series A and B) and focus on scaling and GTM to help founders turn breakthrough products into world-class companies.
Investing Member
Mar 2019
Early stage tech venture fund (SaaS, FinTech, PropTech, Marketplaces, Platforms, Consumer, Web3) *** https://angel.co/ride-ventures
Advisor and Investor
Oct 2018
We’re a mom, a daughter and two best friends and we’re obsessed with making delicious, better-for-you snacks that are the perfect guilt-free getaway into snacking bliss. Our everyday nuts, cups and bites are lower in sugar yet packed with unique flavor. We’re female-founded. We’re good at what we do. And we deeply love what we make. We think you will, too. Jump in!
Advisor and Investor
Jul 2018
Fuel50 is the skills-based AI Talent Marketplace solution that delivers internal talent mobility and workforce reskilling. With hyper-personalized AI and a deeply embedded commitment to diversity and inclusion, Fuel50 activates your talent. Fuel50’s ethical AI matches your people to opportunities in real-time, automatically maps your workforce architecture, and provides deep data insights for predictive talent and workforce planning. Over 80 organizations around the globe saw immediate impact since deploying Fuel50, with up to 65% increase in lateral movement, 35% increase in internal recruitment, and 60% reduction in employee churn. Fuel50 powers the workforce of the future. --- Fuel50 – Your Future, Our Passion™
Investor
Jul 2017
Women’s work is changing, but clothes are struggling to keep up. We know this firsthand: Argent is the result of years spent searching and failing to find clothes with the attitude and ambition that match our own. Now, we’re on a mission to upgrade working women’s wardrobes and help them navigate their busy, hybrid lives. Through confident clothes and an inspiring community, we’re creating a movement that’s all about self expression in and out of the workplace, versatility as a power move, and radical equality when it comes to paychecks, pockets, and everything in between. www.argentwork.com Instagram | @argent
Board Member
Feb 2017
Your buyers are changing. Are you? Vidyard helps you connect with more prospects, tell better stories, and wow your customers with video messaging, video hosting, and buyer engagement solutions built for modern sales and marketing. Sign up for free to try it for yourself, or check out our online demos to see Vidyard in action: http://ow.ly/Attx30mrga2
Investor
Mar 2016
Ocean’s Halo is an organic brand built to drive consumption of Asian-inspired snacks, noodles, nori, sauces & broths in the US and Europe. Our ingredients and recipes deliver lower sodium and delicious umami flavor using seaweeds, known by many as the planet’s most nutrient dense and sustainable crop. All our products are Organic & “Free-from”.  Our organic ingredients, innovative compostable packaging and cause-based focus are all reasons we are the fastest growing brand in Asian (Nielsen).  We donate 1% of revenues to 1% For The Planet, supporting ocean conservation and programs to feed the hungry.
Advisor and Investor
Aug 2015
call us crazy but we believe that beauty can be comfortable. . .and even crazier: we think that great products (and life, for that matter) get better with age. we’re tired of disposable product. we want something to live in and love in. and stay with us through life. . . . so we set out to create a line of sandals that could be all that: gorgeous, easy, timeless styles that get better with age, and collect memories along the way. our soft tanned leathers, paired with a signature molded arch, result in the most comfortable, timeless, and simply beautiful leather sandals in the market. keep them forever, they’ll only get better.
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2022
Board Member
Jan 2022
Your Northern California NPR and PBS stations, offering a community-supported, non-profit alternative to commercial media. Through Public Television, Public Radio, Interactive, and Education, KQED provides citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone; and engage audiences to share their stories. KQED helps students and teachers thrive in 21st century classrooms, and takes people of all ages on journeys of exploration—exposing them to new people, places and ideas. KQED celebrates diversity, embraces innovation, values lifelong learning and partners with those who share our passion for public service.
2021
Partner and Chief Marketing Officer
May 2021
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.
2020
Board Member
Aug 2020
Quizlet is a leading consumer learning brand that builds learning tools to inspire and empower students and teachers. Our team is already supporting a user base of over 60 million active users a month. We're also among the top 20 U.S. websites and top education apps for iOS and Android - and it's only the beginning. We’re a fast-growing Series C startup, valued at $1 Billion and backed by Union Square Ventures, Costanoa Venture Capital, Icon Ventures, Owl Ventures, Altos Ventures and General Atlantic. With our massive reach and focus on delivering high-quality innovative learning tools, we're having a major global impact on education. Read more at https://quizlet.com/mission. Come join us — we're hiring!
Investor
Jul 2020
Founded in 2015, Datapeople was born out of the belief that people deserve a more human recruiting experience. Today, we work with teams around the world to make hiring more efficient and fair for everyone. We do this by arming recruiters, hiring managers, and talent leaders with data at every process stage. With the Datapeople platform, we help you: - Write clear, inclusive job posts that attract more diverse, qualified candidate pools and fill faster - Get your raw recruiting data report-ready so you can gain meaningful insights without the manual work - Understand your candidate pipeline instantly so you can make confident decisions about your entire hiring process With every candidate we impact, we are making recruiting more empathetic and equitable (and we impact tens of thousands of candidates every day, in 80+ countries!). Last year, we helped leading employers of all sizes and industries – from tech startups to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits to government agencies - hit their hiring goals by putting candidates first. Using Datapeople, our customers have attracted 2x more qualified organic candidates, increased candidates from underrepresented groups by at least 25%, and filled their jobs 18+ days faster. Visit http://datapeople.io/demo and sign up for a free demo today.
Investor
Jul 2020
Gem is the only AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform. It brings together your ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics — plus 650+ million profiles to source from — with AI built into every workflow. By eliminating the headaches of juggling multiple tools, Gem helps customers boost recruiter productivity by up to 5x while saving 30-50% on technology costs. Over 1,000 organizations — from startups to industry leaders like Zillow, DoorDash, and Asana — trust Gem to fuel their growth. With an industry-leading 4.8/5 rating on G2, Gem is the platform recruiters actually love to use.
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