Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 10
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Primary Job Title General Partner
  • Primary Organization 
    IA Ventures
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Brad is a Partner at IA Ventures, helping start the firm in 2010. Since then, they’ve seeded over 100 companies including Datadog, The Trade Desk, TransferWise, Flatiron Health, Komodo Health, DataRobot, DigitalOcean, and Recorded Future. Prior to IA, he spent over fifteen years in product, technology, and leadership roles — including the

Technology Advisor to Microsoft’s CTO. Brad holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington. A bit of his investment approach can be found here: http://j.mp/InvestmentPhilosophy

Number of Current Jobs 4
Number of Past Jobs 2
Brad Gillespie has 4 current jobs including Investor at Coiled, Investor at Datadog, and General Partner at IA Ventures. Additionally, Brad Gillespie has had 2 past jobs including Technology Advisor to the CTO at Microsoft.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Microsoft
Technology Advisor to the CTO19992007
Sanders Data Systems
Engineer19941997
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 10
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 9
Brad Gillespie holds 10 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Canvas Medical, Board Member at Drift, and Board Member at Lygos.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Alluvium
Board ObserverJan 20152019
CareGuardian
Board Member20142018
Strateos
Member of the Board of DirectorsJan 20142017
Lua
Board ObserverJan 20122017
Next Big Sound
Member of the Board of DirectorsJan 2013Jan 2015
Simple
Board Observer20112014
Visual Revenue
Member of the Board of Directors20122014
Lore
Board Member20112013
Quorus
Member of the Board of Directors20092012
Brad Gillespie studied at Clarkson UniversityUniversity of New Hampshire, and University of Washington.