Brandon Farwell
Private Equity Investor at Xfund Management Co. LLC
Profile
Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund.
Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Newsle (acq., LNKD), SugarCRM, and Insight Squared, in addition to other frontier investments like Planet (NYSE: PL) and SpaceX.
After DFJ, he helped build the 150-company portfolio at Rothenberg Ventures nearly from the beginning, including companies like SpaceX, Planet, Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR), Vicarious Surgical (NYSE: RBOT), Nearpod (acq Renaissance Learning), Gusto, Patreon, Boom Supersonic, Andela, Bustle, Customer.io, VRChat, and others.
This portfolio was awarded #1 in VR /AR and frontier technology by Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook.
Brandon spent time in sales operations and corporate development at Box.
His passions and focus are mainly in enterprise technologies; notably applied machine intelligence (computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning), VR/AR, robotics/autonomy, and space.
He has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Venture Capital list.
Brandon is currently a formal advisor to CASIS, the organization designated by NASA to manage, promote, and broker research on the International Space Station (ISS) U.S.
National Laboratory.
Brandon received a B.A.
in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University.
He helped run BASES (Stanford’s leading entrepreneurship organization) and was awarded Pac 12 All-Academic Team honors as a varsity rower.
He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Rock Ventures Fellow.
Brandon Farwell active positions
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Xfund Management Co. LLC
Xfund Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Xfund Management Co. LLC (Xfund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Hugo van Vurren. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2017-03-31 |
Former positions of Brandon Farwell
Companies | Position | End |
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Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. LLC
Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. LLC (Rothenberg Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mike B. Rothenberg. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2016-07-31 |
Aerospike, Inc.
Aerospike, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Aerospike, Inc. offers real-time NoSQL database solutions. It offers advertising technology, ecommerce and retail, financial services, telecommunications, online gaming and gambling industries. The company was founded by Brian Bulkowski and Srini V. Srinivasan in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2012-06-30 |
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker)
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker) Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Threshold Ventures, Inc.
Threshold Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Threshold Ventures, Inc. (Threshold Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Draper Fisher Jurvetson International, Inc. founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Private Equity Analyst | - |
Training of Brandon Farwell
Stanford University | Undergraduate Degree |
Harvard Business School | Masters Business Admin |
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Threshold Ventures, Inc.
Threshold Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Threshold Ventures, Inc. (Threshold Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Draper Fisher Jurvetson International, Inc. founded in 1985 by Tim Draper. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker)
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker) Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world. | Finance |
Xfund Management Co. LLC
Xfund Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Xfund Management Co. LLC (Xfund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Hugo van Vurren. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Finance |
Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. LLC
Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. LLC (Rothenberg Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mike B. Rothenberg. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
Aerospike, Inc.
Aerospike, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Aerospike, Inc. offers real-time NoSQL database solutions. It offers advertising technology, ecommerce and retail, financial services, telecommunications, online gaming and gambling industries. The company was founded by Brian Bulkowski and Srini V. Srinivasan in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
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