Nate Bosshard
Founder of Brand.ai
Nate Bosshard
Founder of Brand.ai
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder / Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Offline Ventures is an early-stage venture fund and studio in pursuit of a world where technology lives in harmony with humanity. We believe that the future lies at the convergence of online and offline. And that these worlds should connect in ways that dramatically enhance, expand, and uplift the human experience. We seek to inspire beautiful companies, surrounding founders with uncommon wisdom, perspective-shifting experiences, and radical collaboration.
Co-Founder
2023
A first of its kind brand operating system powered by AI. Incubated inside Offline Ventures.
Co-Owner
2001
Co-Owner of several top-performing mid-size banks, with $5B in assets under management. -One Community Bank -Intercity State Bank -Farmers State Bank Hillsboro -First National Bank of Bangor -Bank of Mauston -Citizens State Bank
Advisor
2019
Seed investor and active strategic resource on fundraising and comms.
LP Advisory Board
2010 - 2021
OG LP & Advisory Board Member: Uber (IPO), Instagram (acquired), Stripe (IPO when ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), Twitter (IPO), Slack (IPO).
Advisor
2017 - 2021
IPO 2021. Aided Andrew, Hilary, and Joe in the earliest days of the company founding to build and develop the brand strategy for Hims/Hers from scratch. Hims defined a generation of millennial DTC brands and ultimately became the fastest company to reach a billion dollar valuation and IPO.
Co-Owner
2006 - 2021
Sold to Pabst. City Brewing is the largest full-service alcoholic beverage contract manufacturer in the United States providing co-packing and supply chain services to blue chip customers across their Hard Seltzer, Traditional FMB, Beer, Spirit-based RTD, and premium non-alcoholic beverage brands. City currently operates out of three facilities located in La Crosse, WI, Memphis, TN and Latrobe, PA with over 1800 employees.
Co-Founder / CMO
2016 - 2019
Created and launched the brand from scratch. Sourced and recruited several members of leadership team and BOD from my network. Raised $100m+ of venture funding. Key contributor to founding DNA of brand and product experience. Built the company from 0-> 1. Creator of #beyourstrongest.
Partner
2015 - 2017
Head of Content & Camera Marketing
2014 - 2015
Merged Dropcam. Worked directly with Tony to launch Nest Cam and Nest services.