Brian McClendon
Venture Partner at UP.Partners
Brian McClendon
Venture Partner at UP.Partners
Lawrence, Kansas
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Vice President Of Engineering
2021
Leading the Platform engineerings groups at Niantic including Campfire, Game Platform, AR, Research, and Mapping groups. Building a team in Lawrence, Kansas and hiring in Bay Area, Seattle, London, and Lawrence!
Advisor
2019 - 2021
Venture Partner
2021
UP.Partners is a firm that invests in the pioneering entrepreneurs who are creating the key enabling technologies that help move people and goods cleaner, faster, safer, and more efficiently in a multi-dimensional world.
Adjunct Professor
2020
Taught Startup School 2020 & 2022 @ University of Kansas
2020 - 2022
An intensive 6 week program introducing and enforcing the challenges of creating a high-growth technology-based startup.
Research Professor
2017 - 2020
Adjunct Professor
2016 - 2017
Founder, Board Member
2017
ksvotes.org is a modern voter-registration website that allows Kansas voters to register or request advanced ballots entirely using their mobile phone.
Technology/Business Advisor
1997
Current: BlueSpace.ai, Blackshark.ai, Array Labs, StoryTell, SwayDM, MythosAI, C2FO Recent: ClearPath Robotics, Just Play Sports, RideOS, Unfolded, Draiver, AstrumU Historical examples: Gigapixel, Epinions, Control4, Noom
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2021
Angel Investor
1997
We invest seed/A in technology startups, 50+ so far.
Technology Advisory Council
2016
Board Member
2020 - 2021
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