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Brian Spaly

General Partner at Brand Foundry Ventures

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Brian Spaly is the General Partner at Brand Foundry Ventures in Austin, Texas, with a focus on investing in seed-stage companies in the fashion, food and beverage, retail, and e-commerce sectors. Notable highlights of his career include serving as a board member for various successful companies like Tecovas and M1 Finance, as well as investing in companies like Own Up and Two Robbers Hard Seltzer.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2020 - Current

Brand Foundry Ventures is a Venture Capital Investment Firm.

  • Board Member

    2020

AZEK Building Products manufactures premium, low maintenance, exterior building products.

  • Board Member

    2019

Made In Cookware is a premium cookware brand creating inspiring tools for the modern cook.

Raised $8,330,000.00 from Social Starts.

  • Board Member

    2021

ChannelApe's enterprise fulfillment SaaS scales direct-to-consumer brands by separating supply chain software from physical operations.

Raised $10,276,633.00 from Barrel Ventures, Afore Capital, Brand Foundry Ventures, Break Trail Ventures and Upside Partnership.

  • Board Member

    2017

Tribe 9 Foods specializes in the fields of food processing and beverages.

  • Board Member

    2016

  • Executive Chairman

    2017 - 2022

    Actively building a great provider of western boots and leather goods, DTC

Tecovas is a direct-to-consumer western-wear company that sells cowboy boots.

Raised $105,400,000.00 from Access Capital, Kemmons Wilson Companies, Seamless Capital and Elephant.

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2021

Deckers Outdoor Corporation is engaged in designing, marketing and distributing footwear, apparel and accessories developed

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2021

    Changing the manufacturing equation. On-demand, flexible labor for light industrial and many other manufacturing businesses

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2021

The Finance Super App

Raised $323,224,883.00 from Chaifetz Group, SoftBank Vision Fund, Clocktower Technology Ventures and Left Lane Capital.

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2020

Happy Returns provides return solutions for leading online and omni-channel retailers.

Raised $25,020,000.00 from U.S. Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures and PayPal Ventures.

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