Brian Bell
Managing Partner at Team Ignite Ventures
El Dorado Hills, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Early stage startup investments. - Pitch your startup: http://pitch.teamignite.vc/ - Join the Team Ignite syndicate: http://join.teamignite.vc/ - Portfolio on our website: https://www.teamignite.ventures/
Investing, Mentoring, and Fueling the Future of Entrepreneurship
Director
2019 - 2023
Held leadership roles in AI, BD, Azure Marketplace, Product Management, and Startups, Scaled hundreds of startups in the Microsoft ecosystem.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Startup Mentor
2021 - 2022
AWS Healthcare is a global healthcare accelerator.
AI Global Category Lead
2018 - 2019
Led the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning category team for AWS Marketplace. Launched the SageMaker Marketplace for Machine Learning.
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Director of Product Management - Artificial Intelligence
2017 - 2018
Led Product Management across the data science, model deployment, and platform teams for the leading enterprise conversational AI platform.
Conversica creates intelligent virtual assistants to serve as virtual team members.
Raised $132,000,000.00 from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.
Principal Product Manager
2016 - 2017
Led product management across multiple teams including machine learning, platform, and APIs.
Senior Product Manager
2015 - 2016
Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media.
Raised $76,600,000.00 from Akkadian Ventures.
Senior Product Manager
2014 - 2015
Inc. 500 start-up innovating in predictive marketing for real estate using machine learning and artificial intelligence.
SmartZip offers innovative and effective predictive marketing solutions to help real estate agents get more listings and lenders more leads.
Raised $30,550,000.00 from Second Century Ventures.
Senior Manager - Marketing Automation
2012 - 2014
VerticalResponse provides web-based, self-service marketing solutions for small businesses to create, share and analyze their campaigns.
Raised $4,922,566.00 from Xoom.
Senior Associate
2008 - 2011
Developing, brokering, and investing in commercial properties throughout Hawaii.
The Beall Corporation is a commercial real estate company specializing in retail leasing, property management, consulting, and development.
Financial Analyst
2006 - 2007
Mortgage-backed securities and whole loan valuation via simulation/modeling.
Financial Advisory, Data and Analytics