Brian Garrett
Website: www.crosscutventures.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-garrett/1/103/8b0
Los Angeles, California, United States
Accredited investor
Member since March 10, 2011
- About
| Type of investor | Early stage VC |
| Categories of interest | |
| Locations of interest | |
| Credentials | Accredited Investor |
| Investments made | Eventup, Lettuce, Docstoc.com, Plyfe, Gradient X, GumGum, SHIFT, Shoedazzle, HaulerDeals, Trazzler, Pulpo Media, Verve Wireless, Club W, Affordit, Zadspace, Circle Street, Intelligent Beauty |
| Board seats | GumGum |
| Advisory positions | VoxBloc, Jacked, Zannel m, MeetMe (quepasa.com) m |
M&A
Jacked,
Undisclosed,
Source: http://www.pehub.com/2010/03/roundbox-buys-jacked/
Pulpo Media, $1M to $50M, Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/entravision-communications-corporation-acquires-digital-advertising-services-and-solutions-provider-pulpo-media-2014-06-19 Shoedazzle, $1M to $50M, Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/21/one-size-fits-all-justfab-merges-with-shoedazzle-in-fashion-commerce-consolidation/ Gradient X, $300M to $1B, Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/05/singtels-amobee-buys-las-gradient-x-to-bulk-up-its-mobile-adtech-with-real-time-bidding/ Docstoc.com, Undisclosed, Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2013/12/04/intuit-snaps-up-docstoc-to-expand-small-business-ecosystem-empire/ Lettuce, $1M to $50M, Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/08/intuit-buys-lettuce-apps-to-add-inventory-and-order-management-to-quickbooks/ |
| Stanford University , BS , Industrial Engineering |
| Stanford University Graduate School of Business , MBA |
Investor and Entrepreneur
Brian Garrett is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures. For his entire career, Brian has been involved in building and funding early-stage technology and media companies.
Brian is very active in the Southern California start-up community and currently works with the Boards of GumGum, Verve Wireless, Pulpo Media, Shoedazzle, AffordIt and Circle Street. He is also an advisory board member for the following digital media companies: Jacked, Zannel and Quepasa.com
Prior to co-founding Crosscut, Brian was a Partner at one of the largest Southern California-based venture funds. He joined there in 2001 and played an active role in managing and investing three funds over six years totaling more than $500 million. He was the sponsor and/or an active board member of nine Palomar portfolio companies, including successes such as DataAllegro (data warehouse appliance company sold to Microsoft in 2008), Entone (video on demand server company sold to Harmonic in 2006), Gamma Enterprise Technologies (sold to Informatica in 2009) and Lombardi Software (stand-alone leader in the business process management software market).
Prior to Palomar, Brian was the Director of Business Development at Niku Corporation. Niku developed Professional Service Automation software for Global 2000 companies. He led business development efforts for iNiku.com, an online workplace for independent professionals. Niku subsequently went public and then was acquired by Computer Associates in 2006.
Prior to Niku, Brian was with a boutique strategy consulting firm called R.B. Webber & Company. He worked with many leading early-stage technology companies including CommerceOne, Inktomi, Sagent, Aurum and Broadbase. He worked with these companies in their earliest phases of growth and contributed strategically to their success by working on all facets of their business including business plan writing, market entry strategy, and primary market and pricing research. The firm also began formally investing in many of the early-stage companies with which it worked and this was his first exposure to and involvement in venture capital investing. He has continued to refine the skill of evaluating new business opportunities since 1995.
Brian received his MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and he graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering.
