Bradley Horowitz
General Partner at Wisdom Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2021 - Current
We support a new generation of entrepreneurs dedicated to consciously harnessing the power of business to co-create a future of greater human connection and wellbeing. Seventeen investments to date (August 2023) and celebrating the recent oversubscribed close of Fund I ($10mm, mostly seed). Looking forward to starting to raise for Fund II ($75mm) in early 2024.
We support a new generation of entrepreneurs dedicated to consciously harnessing the power of business.
Board of Directors
2024
Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide.
Move $100k+ of crypto with our principal OTC desk.
Angel Investor
2007
Named industry's #10 Seed Investor of 2024 by Business Insider. Angel investor in 150+ startups including Slack, Dropcam, Upstart, Coda, Nerdwallet, Applied Intuition, Mammoth Biosciences, Wildlife Studios, Ramp, Mercury, Scale AI, Cerebras Systems, Miro, etc.
Stanford Fellow
2024
Fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Responsible Quantum Technology https://law.stanford.edu/bradley-horowitz/
Board Director
2019
Board Director
2013 - 2024
Served on the board of Issuu through to its successful acquisition by Bending Spoons.
Issuu, a digital publishing and discovery platform, connects people to content created by publishers sharing the same passion.
Raised $51,250,000.00 from Capital IP Investment Partners LP.
Board Director
2020 - 2024
NextSense unlocks brain health with real-world data insights and practical, scientific wisdom for daily living.
Raised $24,352,462.00 from Particular Ventures.
VP Product
2008 - 2023
Leadership of a wide variety of Google products and the teams that operated them, including Gmail, Google+, Google Docs, Google Voice, Google News, Google Reader, blogger, Orkut, Google Photos...
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Board Director
2019 - 2023
Board Director for Singtel, Asia’s leading communications technology group, operating in one of the world’s fastest growing and most dynamic regions. Singtel provides an extensive range of digital and telecommunication services to consumers and businesses. Served on the Finance & Investment and Technology Committees.
Cornell Tech Fellow
2019 - 2022
Visiting Scholar instructor for Cornell Tech's inaugural BigCo Studio course. Developed and taught curriculum with Chad Dickerson.
Education
PhD (incomplete)
1991 - 1993
MS
1989 - 1991
BS
1983 - 1988