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Brian McClendon

Venture Partner at UP.Partners

Lawrence, Kansas

Overview

Work Experience

  • Senior Vice President Of Engineering

    2021 - Current

    Leading the Platform engineerings groups at Niantic including Campfire, Game Platform, AR, Research, and Mapping groups. Building a team in Lawrence, Kansas and hiring in Bay Area, Seattle, London, and Lawrence!

  • Advisor

    2019 - 2021

  • Venture Partner

    2021

    UP.Partners is a firm that invests in the pioneering entrepreneurs who are creating the key enabling technologies that help move people and goods cleaner, faster, safer, and more efficiently in a multi-dimensional world.

  • Adjunct Professor

    2020

  • Taught Startup School 2020 & 2022 @ University of Kansas

    2020 - 2022

    An intensive 6 week program introducing and enforcing the challenges of creating a high-growth technology-based startup.

  • Research Professor

    2017 - 2020

  • Adjunct Professor

    2016 - 2017

  • Founder, Board Member

    2017

    ksvotes.org is a modern voter-registration website that allows Kansas voters to register or request advanced ballots entirely using their mobile phone.

  • Technology/Business Advisor

    1997

    Current: BlueSpace.ai, Blackshark.ai, Array Labs, StoryTell, SwayDM, MythosAI, C2FO Recent: ClearPath Robotics, Just Play Sports, RideOS, Unfolded, Draiver, AstrumU Historical examples: Gigapixel, Epinions, Control4, Noom

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Angel Investor

    1997

    We invest seed/A in technology startups, 50+ so far.

  • Technology Advisory Council

    2016

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2021

    The Beacon is a non-profit investigative journalism platform reporting on Kansas and Missouri issues.

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