Brandon Simmons
Chief Executive Officer at S
Houston, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2022 - Current
We use cutting-edge production methods and story-based teaching to create high-value, high-impact education, training, and marketing content. We also provide advisory services to select clients, leveraging our experience as investors, board members, and operators.
Board Member
2021
Venus Aerospace is a growth-stage company pushing the boundaries of hypersonic technology.
Board Member
2021 - 2023
Space Perspective is the world's first and only carbon-neutral spaceflight experience company on a mission to make transformative space travel accessible to more people than ever before. Its Spaceship Neptune, which comprises a pressurized capsule propelled by a giant SpaceBalloon™, offers a safe and accessible six-hour journey to the edge of space.
Space Perspective is a space travel company that provides an accessible carbon-neutral spaceflight experience.
Raised $65,083,333.00 from 100 Fundadores, InterFlight Global Capital and Gaingels.
Board Member
2021 - 2022
CarbonCapture develops and deploys direct air capture (DAC) machines that can be connected in large arrays to remove massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. With a groundbreaking modular open systems architecture, the company’s technology platform allows for plug-and-play sorbent upgrades, mass production, and unlimited scalability. CarbonCapture’s systems capture atmospheric carbon dioxide for either permanent removal or for utilization in low-carbon synthetic fuels, concrete, and other industrial products.
CarbonCapture is a climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere.
Raised $115,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Siemens Financial Services, Climate Pledge Fund, IdealabX, Prime Movers Lab, Time Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund and Alumni Ventures.
Board Member
2021 - 2022
Elevian is an emerging biotech company developing medicines that restore youthful regenerative capacity, with the potential to treat and prevent multiple age-related diseases. Elevian's scientific founders, working at the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, discovered that treatment with the circulating factor GDF11 can regenerate the heart, brain, muscle and other tissues. Elevian has acquired exclusive, worldwide rights to Harvard's patent portfolio concerning GDF11. The company is developing new medicines that target the GDF11 pathway. Elevian's lead drug candidate (recombinant human GDF11) has demonstrated efficacy in preclinical models of stroke, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart failure, Alzheimer's disease, and many other age-related diseases.
Elevian develops medicines that restore youthful regenerative capacity with the potential to treat and prevent many age-related diseases.
Raised $64,333,889.00 from Leslie Ventures, Bold Capital Partners, Prime Movers Lab and Kuelbs Family Office.
Board Member
2020 - 2022
NobleAI enables companies to accelerate the development of better performing, more environmentally sustainable and reliably sourced chemical & material products.
NobleAI is an AI software company that accelerates development of Materials & Chemicals products.
Raised $40,605,980.00 from Dorilton Ventures, Sway Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, GPVC, Chevron Technology Ventures, Alumni Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Board Member
2020 - 2022
Pyka is defining the future of safe, environmentally-friendly, and cost-effective aviation with highly-automated electric airplanes for crop protection and other commercial applications, including cargo transport. Pyka's proprietary technology includes highly-automated flight control software, flight computers, high energy density batteries, advanced electric propulsion systems, and carbon composite airframes.
Pyka develops autonomous electric aircraft to transform agriculture and logistics with innovative technology.
Raised $88,100,000.00 from Endure Capital, Y Combinator, Piva Capital, Metaplanet, Prelude Ventures and Obvious Ventures.
General Partner
2019 - 2022
General Partner (2020-2022), Venture Partner (2019). Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.
Prime Movers Lab invests in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.
Chief Executive Officer
2015 - 2020
CEO (2020), COO (2018-2020), GC (2015-2018). Tachyus helps operators in the oil and gas industry to optimize their operations and reduce carbon emissions. Our proprietary models combine data, machine learning and physics to build very reliable models that are orders or magnitude faster than traditional physics based models. These models can be used to continuously optimize reservoir management decisions and perform what-if analysis in minutes to understand the impact of different operational decisions. Aurion, our GHG emissions management platform, enables oil and gas and other industries to account, monitor, forecast and report GHG emissions to regulatory agencies. Aurion integrates with any data source to fully streamline the GHG emissions management process, enabling companies large and small to monitor GHG emissions on a daily basis, and understand the impact of future operational decisions on GHG emissions to help with their Net-Zero goals.
Tachyus is a software development company that offers technology platform to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry.
Raised $39,328,000.00 from Montrose Lane.
Attorney
2010 - 2015
Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.