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John Dodini
Principal at Brave Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2023 - Current
Brave Capital is a venture fund investing in technology startups that move humanity forward.
Product
2020 - 2022
Snap is a technology company that offers the products Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji.
Raised $5,553,527,880.00 from Alwaleed Bin Talal and Tencent.
Head of Business Development
2015 - 2022
Early employee at content platform with 200 million monthly active users and 1 billion monthly pageviews. Developed product roadmap and led product partnerships.
Gfycat is GIF hosting platform that allows users to create, discover, and share GIFs through their mobile phones and computers.
Raised $12,015,712.00 from Streamlined Ventures, Pear VC, Alsop Louie Partners, Keval Desai, Brandtech Ventures, Partech, Tekton Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital and StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund).
Chief of Staff
2014 - 2015
Early employee at end-to-end encrypted messenger platform used by activists, journalists, and government agencies.
Wickr is a free top-secret messaging app allowing its users to send and receive top-secret messages, pictures, videos, audios, and files.
Raised $74,608,935.00 from In-Q-Tel, Knight Enterprise Fund and Singtel Innov8.
Sales & Finance
2013 - 2014
Finance and operations support to programs on exponential frontier technologies.
Singularity Group is an educational organization that provides research development and executive programs.