Brian Brackeen

Managing Partner - Lightship Anchor Fund

2023 - Current

Anchor is a Fund of Funds strategy leveraging diversity to produce exceptional outcomes. We are targeting a multi-billion fund backing remarkable Black fund managers across the Americas, Africa, and Europe. By strategically identifying opportunities within this market and coupling them with our unprecedented ecosystem access, Anchor aims to build wealth on a global scale for our investors and community.

General Partner - Lightship Venture Capital Fund I

2019

LIGHTSHIP is a founder focused investment fund. We identify amazing technology driven startups founded/led by underrepresented professionals, and surround them with the education, collaboration, and capital necessary to scale toward exit. Our fund is modeled to offer underrepresented founders an alternative to traditional firms— enabling them to avoid the challenges associated with traditional funding. We join or lead rounds, we don’t require board seats to invest, and if/when we are invited to serve on the board— we strongly support the founder. We’re also willing to bridge our portfolio companies to their next round, and reserve capital so that we can participate in future rounds. At Lightship, we bet on the jockey, as much as we bet on the horse. Founded and managed by entrepreneurs, Lightship recognizes that early stage investment strategy begins with a great feeling about a company and its founder— and expands to include growth centric portfolio management built around key corporate and government alliances, access to professional services and training, and meaningful follow-on. Our approach is comprehensive and constructed to cultivate organic, sustainable growth.

Founder

2011 - 2019

Kairos is an artificial intelligence company specializing in face recognition. Through computer vision and machine learning, Kairos can recognize faces in videos, photos, and the real-world - making it easier than ever to transform the way your business interacts with people. ✔ Identity ✔ Emotions ✔ Demographics Kairos navigates the complexities of face analysis technology, so you don’t have to. We offer APIs and SDKs any developer can integrate with ease. Founded in 2012 and based in Miami, Kairos is a venture backed organization servicing a diverse global customer base. Learn more at www.kairos.com

Sr. Project Manager

2010 - 2012

Senior leader responsible for Global Expansion of People Systems

Kronos Guru

1998 - 2010

Kronos Solution Architect

2008 - 2010

Sr Managing Consultant

2002 - 2010

Responsible for very complex and technical Kronos implementations.; Wyndham Hotels, and more. .. ) Experienced with reviewing business processes and developing procedures. Significant experience with designing and developing specifications for custom reports used as a part of business processes and procedures. Also experience with testing custom reports. Led as well as performed system, parallel testing, user acceptance testing, as well as quality assurance testing. Trained the client staffs on reporting, quick tips / tricks, and running control totals to check accuracy. Trained Administrators, Payroll Managers, Supervisors, and End Users on utilizing system at each level. Trained internal and external resources on best practices.

Kronos Solution Architect

2009 - 2010

Kronos Solution Architect

2009 - 2010

Kronos Project Manager

2008 - 2008

Technical Consultant

1999 - 2008