Brian Shin
Investor and Product Strategy focused on the responsible advancement of AI. Managing Partner, VitalStage Ventures AI-Native Fund
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Managing Partner
2023
VitalStage Ventures is an AI-Native seed fund that supports entrepreneurs building the data and AI infrastructure necessary to create transformative industry impact in the most responsible way possible. We have invested in over 50 innovative technology companies and we truly believe that AI can be a force for positive change. We are driven to support founders because we sincerely think that entrepreneurs are the heroes of the business world. Some of our companies include: HubSpot (IPO), Drift (acquired by Vista), Kayak (IPO), Not Diamond, Monitaur, Cargo, NRG eSports, Lovepop, Pipefy, Collaborate (acq. Cisco), Mapkin (acq. AOL), Beamable, Wonderment, Telescoped, Tablelist, Shareaholic, Pagecloud, Neurable, Impact Biosystems, Notion, Influitive, Neural Galaxy, Vesper Mems (acquired by Qualcomm), Frequency Therapeutics (IPO), Sirtris Pharma (IPO), Lola.com (acquired by CapitalOne), Misfit (acq. FOSL), and many others.
Investor
2024
Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Raised $362,550,552.00 from SGH CAPITAL.
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2024
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Octolane AI is an artificial intelligence platform that rebuilds salesforce with the power of AI.
Raised $500,000.00 from Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund.
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2024
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Duckie is an AI assistant designed to provide technical support and resolve issues related to it.
Raised $500,000.00 from Y Combinator and 10 BOND.
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2024
Tensorfuse makes it simple to deploy and manage LLM pipelines on your cloud.
Raised $500,000.00 from Y Combinator.