Brendan Iribe
Founder of Something new
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO and co-founder
2023 - Current
Managing Partner
2005
Early stage investments in disruptive technology.
CEO and co-founder
2012 - 2018
Kickstarted VR from dev kits to Rift and Quest. Our mission was to enable people to experience anything, with anyone. We built magical products and a brand people loved. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Spark, Matrix, Formation 8, Founders Fund, and BIG.
Oculus develops virtual reality platforms and products, including Rift, that let people experience anything, with anyone.
Raised $98,387,429.00 from Formation 8, Spark Capital, Matrix and Andreessen Horowitz.
Chief Product Officer (CPO)
2011 - 2012
We built the first GPU cloud streaming platform, which launched on websites and IPTVs, including Facebook, YouTube, LG and Samsung. Backed by Benchmark, NEA, Rustic Canyon, Qualcomm, Intel, and BIG. In August 2012 Gaikai became part of Sony.
Scaleform, Media & Entertainment
2011 - 2011
Led the successful merger with Autodesk and supported the team through the integration process.
HSMWorks technology with its industry leading software and cloud services for manufacturing.
CEO and co-founder
1999 - 2011
Scaleform grew to be the premier video game UI technology provider. Our SDK’s were used in thousands of titles, including hundreds of AAA games that shipped on multiple platforms including mobile, PC, Nintendo, Microsoft Xbox, and Sony PlayStation. In March 2011 Scaleform became part of Autodesk.