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Expect Nothing.
Talks about expectations, life planning and acceptance
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Andrew Brackin
Partner at Gradient Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Andrew Brackin is a Partner at Gradient Ventures and Co-Founder at Vial, with a background in entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and online advertising. He has successfully co-founded Vial and led growth initiatives at Newfront, showcasing expertise in generative tech/AI sectors and the San Francisco Bay Area startup scene.
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Leading early rounds at Gradient, a venture fund focused on transformational AI companies, backed by Alphabet.
Gradient is a seed fund that invests in founders developing AI technologies.
Co-Founder & Board
2023 - 2024
Co-Founder & COO
2020 - 2023
Vial runs faster and more efficient trials with. Sat on the board and led go-to-market (scaled $0-15M+ ARR). $100M+ in capital raised from General Catalyst, Buckley Ventures, Byers Capital and Box Group.
Scalable biotech advancing clinical programs with cost-effective trials and computationally designed therapeutics.
Raised $101,000,000.00 from Patrick Hsu, Connor Zwick, Gordon Wintrob, Josh Buckley, Buckley Ventures, General Catalyst, Byers Capital and Spike Lipkin.
Founding Team, Head of Growth
2018 - 2020
One of the first employees at Newfront (backed by Founders Fund, B Capital, and Meritech) — a tech-enabled insurance brokerage. Valued at $2.2BN in merger in 2022
Newfront is an insurance company that provides risk control, risk analytics, and benchmarking claims advocacy.
Raised $310,000,000.00 from Y Combinator, Bloomberg Beta, Altai Ventures, Susa Ventures, B Capital, Vetamer, Founders Fund, Tony Xu, PruVen Capital and Stack Capital.
Growth (Acquired by Monster)
2014 - 2017
Early team at Jobr. A job search app that grew to become one of the most popular job apps in the US, and was featured in an Apple Keynote. Acquired by Monster in 2016.
Fellow
2013 - 2015
I was selected as one of 20 fellows for the Thiel Fellowship.
We support science, technology, and long-term thinking about the future.
Education
Drop-out
2013 - 2015